Aug 8, 2017 ... Many People With Disabilities Are Being Paid Way Below the Minimum Wage,  and It's Perfectly Legal ... of $7.25 an hour because of a 1938 provision in the Fair  Labor Standards Act that permits employers, who apply to the Department of  Labor for a waiver, to pay lower wages to people with disabilities.
Also prohibited are partial displacements such as reducing employees' hours,  wages, or employment benefits. Certain full-time students, student learners,  apprentices and workers with disabilities may be paid less than the minimum  wage under special certificates from the Secretary of Labor. This is commonly  referred to as ...
May 24, 2016 ... Currently, in the US, with specific authorisation from the federal government  under a provision in an old law, some employers can pay disabled people less –  sometimes much less – than the national minimum wage. According to the  National Council on Disability, an estimated 420,000 disabled workers ...
Feb 12, 2016 ... Disabled people are allowed to work for pennies per hour — but maybe not for  much longer ... The non-profit takes on contracts for low-skilled manual labor,  paying some program participants less than minimum wage under an exemption  from federal labor law for employment of people with disabilities.
Apr 23, 2014 ... Disabled workers: Under federal law, employers may apply for a special  certificate to pay less than the minimum wage to anyone "whose earning or ...  Groups like the National Disability Rights Network and the American Association  of People with Disabilities contend that the subminimum wage rule is ...
Says "employers are still allowed to pay people with disabilities below the minimum wage."