[Nfbmt] NFB Resolution 2015-04 Regarding Support for the Transitioning to Integrated and Meaningful Employment Act

[Sheila Leigland]

thank you for this post. I am in complete agreement.

On 8/18/2015 4:54 AM, bruce&Joy Breslauer via Nfbmt wrote:
> Resolution 2015-04
>
> Regarding Support for the Transitioning to Integrated and Meaningful
> Employment Act
>
> WHEREAS, Congressman Gregg Harper introduced the Transitioning to Integrated
> and Meaningful Employment (TIME) Act (H.R. 188) on January 7, 2015; and
>
> WHEREAS, the TIME Act has the same goal as the Fair Wages for Workers with
> Disabilities Act, which was introduced in the previous two congresses,
> namely to phase out the use of Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards
> Act; and
>
> WHEREAS, the National Federation of the Blind has passed two resolutions
> that support the Fair Wages for Workers with Disabilities Act, Resolution
> 2013-02 Regarding Ending Subminimum Wage Payments to Workers with
> Disabilities and Resolution 2012-01 Regarding Support for the Fair Wages for
> Workers with Disabilities Act of 2011, affirming our long-held goal to
> repeal Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act and to end the practice
> of paying people with disabilities subminimum wages; and
>
> WHEREAS, as demonstrated by the states of Vermont, which has no entities
> that hold Section 14(c) certificates, and New Hampshire, which on May 7,
> 2015, signed a bill into law prohibiting entities from paying individuals
> with disabilities less than the minimum wage, special wage certificates are
> no longer needed; and
>
> WHEREAS, over eighty organizations support the repeal of Section 14(c) of
> the Fair Labor Standards Act, further illustrating the growing trend against
> this discriminatory practice: Now, therefore,
>
> BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind in Convention
> assembled this ninth day of July, 2015, in the city of Orlando, Florida,
> that this organization commend Congressman Gregg Harper and all cosponsors
> of H.R. 188, the Transitioning to Integrated and Meaningful Employment Act,
> for continuing to shepherd this legislation through this Congress and for
> having the courage to support a bill that will ensure that Americans with
> disabilities have access to integrated and meaningful employment
> opportunities; and
>
> BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization call upon the Education and
> Workforce Committee of the US House of Representatives to conduct an
> immediate hearing on H.R. 188 in order to facilitate informed debate and to
> learn the truth about the employment capacity of people with disabilities;
> and
>
> BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization call upon the US Senate to
> introduce companion legislation to H.R. 188 immediately; and
>
> BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization call for the immediate passage
> of the TIME Act by the US Congress and for the President of the United
> States to sign it into law.
>
>   
>
> Since then, on August 5, 2015, Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) introduced the
> Transitioning to Integrated and Meaningful Employment (TIME) Act (S. 2001)
> in the United States Senate. Senator Ayotte introduced this legislation to
> repeal Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act, in order to
> incentivize the transitioning of workers with disabilities into integrated,
> meaningful employment, and to phase out the discriminatory practice of
> paying workers with disabilities pennies per hour. So what we do makes a
> difference.
>
>   
>
> Joy Breslauer, President
>
> National Federation of the Blind of Montana
>
> Email: president at nfbofmt.org
>
> Web Site: www.nfbofmt.org
>
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