HR Compliance Library, ¶27,420, Can employers pay special wages to workers with disabilities?

摘要

You've heard that workers with disabilities can be employed at special minimum wages. Is this true?rnSection 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act does allow employers to pay special minimum wages that arernlower than the federal minimum wage to workers with disabilities. However, the provision does not apply unlessrnthe disability actually impairs the worker's earning or productive capacity for the work being performed . The factrnthat a worker may have a disability is not in and of itself sufficient to warrant the payment of a special minimumrnwage.