More Disabled Workers Earn Just Pennies An Hour: NBC News

[Stuart G]

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/10/19916979-more-disabled-workers-paid-just-pennies-an-hour

By Anna Schecter, Monica Alba and Mark Schone
NBC News

A national charity whose executives earn six-figure salaries used a legal loophole to pay disabled workers as little as three and four cents an hour, according to documents obtained exclusively by NBC News.

An NBC News investigation recently revealed that Goodwill Industries, which is among the non-profit groups permitted to pay disabled workers far less than minimum wage because of a federal law known as Section 14 (c), had paid workers as little as 22 cents an hour.


Now newly obtained federal documents show that at least 13 Goodwill franchises in 10 states paid 140 workers even less.

According to Department of Labor filings acquired via the Freedom of Information Act, two Goodwill franchises in Fort Worth, Texas paid 51 employees less than 10 cents an hour in 2011, with 14 earning just four cents an hour for tasks described as “assembly.”
Franchises in Michigan, Maryland, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Ohio, Florida, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Virginia also paid employees 21 cents or less between 2008 and 2011, according to the documents. One franchise in Fairfield, Ohio paid a worker just three cents an hour for hanging clothes in 2008.
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Sometimes, when you think the news cannot get more disgusting, it does. This story was around last June, but evidently this is an update, from yesterday, with more information. The story lists of states that have Goodwill franchise that pay a few cents per hour. So not all of them do this. At least this is what the story implies. Who knows?

[DonCoquixote]

1. as a disabled person

I will NOT ever shop at Goodwill until this policy is gone!

For everyone who think private charities will do a better job than welfare, this article is a fine refute!

[BlueJazz]

2. I'll tell you also what some of those sons-a-bitches do. (Had a friend that volunteered at Goodwill)

Make fun of the disabled ....the Manager watching and laughing.
Stealing the disabled persons lunch.
Making the disabled wash the bosses cars.
"Feeling up" the mentally-challenged Females.
putting speed in the disabled guy soft drink.

My friend quit after 2 days and wrote to the Goodwill headquarters.

got back.. Nothing....absolutely Nothing.