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  Governor David Paterson Urges Immediate Passage
   of Fair Wages for Workers with Disabilities Act
  New York City, New York (October 10, 2011): David A. Paterson, 55th 
governor of the state of New York and a member of and consultant to the 
National Federation of the Blind, today urged immediate passage of the Fair 
Wages for Workers with Disabilities Act (H.R. 3086), which was introduced in 
the United States House of Representatives last week.



  Governor Paterson said: "It is long past time for the anachronistic 
provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act that allows workers with 
disabilities to be paid less than the federal minimum wage to be phased out. 
As Samuel R. Bagenstos, former principal deputy assistant attorney general 
for civil rights, has reported, Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards 
Act does not encourage mainstream employers to hire disabled workers; does 
not result in the training of workers with disabilities to participate in 
competitive employment; and does not even produce wages tied to the alleged 
lower productivity of disabled workers, which is a myth in any event.  This 
anachronism must be stricken from America's statute books, and workers with 
disabilities must receive equal pay for equal work and an equal opportunity 
to succeed."






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