[nfbmi-talk] Fw: the people who oppose

[joe harcz Comcast]

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The people who oppose this are the Community Rehab Orgs which are federally funded. In other words only the shelterred shop providers and their outragious impact on the VR system, which is totally conflicted oppose minimum wages for its disabled workers.

Joe
Oregon lawmakers lukewarm on bill to require minimum wage for disabled workers

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Oregon U.S. Attorney Amanda Marshall, joined by Bob Joondeph, executive director of Disability Rights Oregon, announces in April 2013 that the U.S. Department

of Justice has joined a federal class-action lawsuit that accuses Oregon of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. (Brent Wojhan/The Oregonian/2013

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SALEM -- Should disabled workers receive the minimum wage if they aren't as productive as able-bodied workers?

 

Disability rights advocates and union representatives say yes and have thrown their support behind

House Bill 4118,

which would require disabled workers in the state’s nonprofit sheltered workshops to earn the minimum wage. Opponents, including the

Oregon Rehabilitation Association,

say the bill would force them to lay off workers and could disqualify disabled workers from receiving public assistance.

 

Lawmakers seemed lukewarm about the bill, which received a public hearing Tuesday in the

House Consumer Protection and Government Efficiency Committee.

The bill could wind up creating a task force to study the “complicated” issue, said Rep.

Paul Holvey,

D-Eugene, committee chairman.

 

Sheltered workshops are state programs

that offer employment and vocational services for people with intellectual and physical disabilities and that, by federal law, are allowed to pay workers

below minimum wage.

 

The

U.S. Department of Justice has joined a federal class-action lawsuit

about the workshops brought by Disability Rights Oregon, the Center for Public Representation and two private law firms on behalf of eight people with disabilities

and United Cerebral Palsy of Oregon and Southwest Washington. Trial is scheduled for summer 2015.