The Hill (9/17, Budryk) reports that on Thursday, the US Commission on Civil Rights “called for an end to a program that allows employers to pay disabled workers less than the minimum wage.” The commission, in a report issued Thursday, “said both the Labor Department and the Justice Department have failed to regulate the program and let it fall short of meeting the needs of disabled people.
Overall, the commission said, the program has been ‘inconsistent with the civil rights protections to which people with disabilities are entitled.’” The commission “called for Congress to phase out the program, noting that similar phaseouts have been implemented at the state level to keep disabled people from losing access to key services.” Among.