Selma Blair calls 'sub-minimum wage for people with disabilities' 'out of touch and wrong' - NBC News

[TexasTowelie]

Actor and advocate Selma Blair joins Meet the Press and tells Kristen Welker her message to lawmakers as she fights for equity and accessibility for the disabled community. Ms Blair is disabled with multiple sclerosis.

[Shipwack]

1. Agree 1000% percent!

It's a crime that organizations such as Goodwill can pay sub minimum wage under the guide of "training".

It's wage theft, pure and simple.

BTW, for those that don't know, wage theft is the most expensive crime in the US, far more costly than the "smash and grab" incidents that catch the headlines...

[Skittles]

2. I really admire Ms. Blair

she has taken her disability as a motivation for change, she is fantastic

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

3. I have known people with disabilities who...

... went to a 'training workshop' and then quit after getting a single digit paycheck for the week. A lot of the work done there is similar to such things as arranging and folding together the ads you get in the mail monthly to making buttons and suchlike. The pay per completed button or correctly arranged folder was abysmal, many times not even a penny back when I was a temporary instructor at one.

You see... rate of pay is determined by how many a person without a disability can make per hour and dividing the result against a wage - most likely minimum wage, because 'why not?' - and paying per items completed. If you have a physical or mental disability that impedes your ability to do rote assembly or construction quickly enough... tough.

[appalachiablue]

4. Good for Selma Blair, glad to see this, k/r

Otoh there are tossers like UK Welfare Minister Lord Freud of the conservative party, a former investment banker and descendant of Sigmund.

- Baron Freud was caught suggesting disabled people could be paid less in 2014.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/15/prime-minister-david-cameron-lord-freud-apologise-disabled-people-minimum-wage

- David Anthony Freud, Baron Freud, PC (b. 24 June 1950) is a British politician, life peer, and former investment banker who served as Minister for Welfare Reform from 2010 to 2016. Before he joined the Conservative Party, he was vice-chairman of investment banking at UBS and a government adviser on welfare reform...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Freud,_Baron_Freud