On December 3, the Department of Labor issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that, if finalized, would eliminate 14(c), a provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act that allows some employers—mostly ...
The contention is over a federal law that creates a special minimum wage for disabled workers in extreme circumstances. Most of these workers, who generally could not perform in an ordinary workplace, ...
Open Justice reports the change entitles parents to the minimum wage. Thousands of resident family carers who receive Disability Support Services funding - could soon be deemed its employees. The case ...
Disability-rights advocates have long insisted that, as a matter of public policy, disabled people’s lives should resemble those of nondisabled people to the greatest extent possible. They have argued ...
Scott D. Landes ([email protected]), Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. After years of advocacy by the disability community and allied organizations, on September 26, 2023, the National ...
Colleen Lutkevich and Kim Meehan sit on a bench at the Wrentham Developmental Center, which houses residents that are severely developmentally disabled — including Lutkevich's sister. Meehan's sister ...
Five workers at an adult day care in East Brunswick have been charged, along with the facility, with physically abusing two severely disabled adults. According to the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s ...
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A Lithonia woman has been convicted of exploiting disabled adults and depriving them of essential services. Crystal Nasir, 43, was found guilty in connection with the operation of ...
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