In the US it is currently legal to pay physically and mentally disabled employees less than the federal minimum wage if they are deemed to produce less than other employees.
So a better question would be, why do we do that?
Edit: The original picture was people asking "should we do this" I realize that the original picture is people in the UK talking about this. A lot of people arent aware the US does this. I replaced it with the question "why do we do this" But if you want to get all worked up and spout off, call me stupid, explain why people who produce less should be paid less, get angry, I encourage you to let it all out.
Also you should know the the proposed bill changing the US federal wage to $15 an hour also eliminates types of subminim wage.
I’ll probably get some flak for this, but I’d just like to emphasize that if a company hires someone with a mental disability, it’s up to management to babysit them, not fellow employees. I worked an overnight cleaning job for a fast food restaurant and two different mentally disabled people were hired to clean during the day. They got virtually nothing done and I was basically doing 2-3 jobs because management was more concerned with how this situation looked for photo ops rather than ensuring the employees had a reasonable workload.
I can recall coming in to most shifts and the restaurant was absolutely filthy. There was one time where managers had allowed the day shift to stack 53 bags of garbage in front of the compactor rather than put the disabled employees through the hassle of hoisting the bags up above their waists. They were not fit for the job and it should have been up to the closing managers to compensate.
I understand the need to integrate the disabled into society and allow them a means of providing for themselves but it shouldn’t be at the cost of a single employee’s unreasonable workload. They were constantly falling behind their work and it was up to me to pick up their slack for the same pay. I’m not a charity, I’m just trying to get my work done and go home. Bonus: I became so overworked I ended up getting a hernia and needed surgery. Yay.
I think the twitter question is phrased incredibly insensitively. This is not about "learning disabilities" - it's about finding a "purpose" for people who are severely disabled and needing very close care - so they still feel like members of society.
Emma Barnett should be fired for her gross misunderstanding of the question which has probably destroyed hope for meaningful debate on the topic.
CH47hooker on February 2nd, 2020 at 20:39 UTC »
In the US it is currently legal to pay physically and mentally disabled employees less than the federal minimum wage if they are deemed to produce less than other employees.
So a better question would be, why do we do that?
Edit: The original picture was people asking "should we do this" I realize that the original picture is people in the UK talking about this. A lot of people arent aware the US does this. I replaced it with the question "why do we do this" But if you want to get all worked up and spout off, call me stupid, explain why people who produce less should be paid less, get angry, I encourage you to let it all out.
Also you should know the the proposed bill changing the US federal wage to $15 an hour also eliminates types of subminim wage.
https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/wages/subminimumwage
TaintModel on February 2nd, 2020 at 20:54 UTC »
I’ll probably get some flak for this, but I’d just like to emphasize that if a company hires someone with a mental disability, it’s up to management to babysit them, not fellow employees. I worked an overnight cleaning job for a fast food restaurant and two different mentally disabled people were hired to clean during the day. They got virtually nothing done and I was basically doing 2-3 jobs because management was more concerned with how this situation looked for photo ops rather than ensuring the employees had a reasonable workload.
I can recall coming in to most shifts and the restaurant was absolutely filthy. There was one time where managers had allowed the day shift to stack 53 bags of garbage in front of the compactor rather than put the disabled employees through the hassle of hoisting the bags up above their waists. They were not fit for the job and it should have been up to the closing managers to compensate.
I understand the need to integrate the disabled into society and allow them a means of providing for themselves but it shouldn’t be at the cost of a single employee’s unreasonable workload. They were constantly falling behind their work and it was up to me to pick up their slack for the same pay. I’m not a charity, I’m just trying to get my work done and go home. Bonus: I became so overworked I ended up getting a hernia and needed surgery. Yay.
westwestmoreland on February 2nd, 2020 at 21:15 UTC »
Read the article on the Spectator that she is referencing. The article is well written and thought provoking and incredibly compassionate (the Author, Rosa Monkton, is the mother of a child with Down's syndrome). https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/03/the-minimum-wage-denies-my-daughter-the-dignity-of-a-paid-job/
I think the twitter question is phrased incredibly insensitively. This is not about "learning disabilities" - it's about finding a "purpose" for people who are severely disabled and needing very close care - so they still feel like members of society.
Emma Barnett should be fired for her gross misunderstanding of the question which has probably destroyed hope for meaningful debate on the topic.