'An affront to dignity': The system allowing people with disability to be paid $6 an hour
'An affront to dignity': The system allowing people with disability to be paid $6 an hour
A year on from the disability royal commission's final report, ABC NEWS takes a closer look at one of the biggest and most contentious proposals for change — phasing out segregated employment.
Wow. Even the US doesn't have it this bad.
What on earth is your instance name?
Good question!
I essentially self-host my own pyfedi instance ( pyfedi is to piefed.social as lemmy is to aussie.zone ) - and thanks to srv.us I do it for free! (Well, I have my own internet connection that's subsidized and run the software on an old spare laptop at home, so still free overall, but srv.us just provides the permanent domain name.)
Alas, the price of not paying for a persistent and unchanging domain name is not being able to choose the domain name.
Yes we do...
https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/wages/subminimumwage
There was an article I read where some dude was getting paid $1.25. I have no idea why they even go to work.
Ouch! Yep, I stand corrected.
Incidentally, might this be the article that you read?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/08/30/subminimum-wage-disabled-workers/
The disability pension needs to be raised.
I mean from a logical sense of less effective less pay it makes sence.
If that's the case, and we have all these starving people, then I have a modest proposal.
If this logic should be applied anywhere, it's not at the bottom of the corporate ladder...
And from a logical sense of they're human beings that need to pay rent and buy food to survive, it does not.
Also, sense*