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Disabled workers operate in a complicated space within American labor. Many of them are capable of productive labor that helps make their lives better. Employers probably wouldn’t hire them without incentives and at least for some of them, the need for constant overseeing from case workers probably barely makes it worth the trouble. On the other hand, for some employers hiring these workers is just another way to wrest additional profit by paying subminimum wages. The catering companies like Aramark are notorious for this as a labor strategy in the kitchen of university dining halls. The Fair Labor Standards Act included a provision to pay subminimum wages to disabled workers, so there’s a long legal precedent here.

I’m glad President Obama has decided to include disabled workers in his executive order to raise minimum wages in future federal contracts. I do think the effect upon the disabled needs to be monitored, but there really isn’t a good reason not to pay these workers a minimum wage, especially given just how little money that actually is for these corporations.

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