Vermont Sheltered Workshop Conversion Institute

02/01/2024

Check this out from a family perspective...

Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act allows some organizations to pay employees with disabilities less than minimum wage. This is a controversial topic of much debate right now across the country.

In a video interview, Christa Preston from the Institute for Community Inclusion shares about her family’s experience with 14c: “If this debate had taken place two decades ago, my family and I would have been advocating for 14(c). With the knowledge I have gained through [my] experience, I can no longer advocate for 14(c).”

Watch the full interview with Christa: https://buff.ly/3SjYbOx

11/29/2023

Purpose of this briefThe purpose of this data brief is to share the history and trends of employment for Vermonters with intellectual and developmental disabilities.Vermont has received national and international attention because disability-based subminimum wages and sheltered workshops were elimin...

07/25/2022

A major federal program that facilitates jobs for people with disabilities working on government contracts will soon no longer allow them to be paid less than minimum wage.

10/22/2021

Thanks to a loophole, disabled employees can legally be paid less than their able-bodied counterparts. Here’s a look at the debate over subminimum wage. ...

04/07/2021

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Yesterday, the House Committee on Education and Labor introduced the Transformation to Competitive integrated Employment Act (HR2373). This bipartisan bill calls for the phase-out of 14(c) with a simultaneous investment in resources to support states and employers to transition workers with disabilities into fully competitive and integrated employment in their communities.

03/17/2021

President-elect Joe Biden wants to do away with a decades-old option to pay workers with disabilities less than minimum wage while giving stimulus payments to more people in this population.

02/08/2021

https://www.transcen.org/new-webinar-series-transforming-services-and-staff-for-jobs-and-life-in-the-community/

New Webinar Series: Transforming Services and Staff for Jobs and Life in the Community December 16, 2020 Transforming Services and Staff for Jobs and Life in the Community Bring a team of leaders and staff to learn and discuss how to take your organization through a provider transformation planning....

09/17/2020

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09/17/2020

“The Commission today calls for the end of the Section 14(c) program, because it continues to limit people with disabilities from realizing their full potential,” ​Catherine E. Lhamon​, Chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. “In addition the program suffers from wildly insufficient federal oversight and civil rights review, and apparently routine noncompliance, begging the question why we as a nation continue its operation.”

03/06/2020

http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-advocates-seek-to-abolish-subminimum-wages-for-people-with-disabilities/568249102/

Thousands do assembly in “sheltered workshops.”

11/20/2019

Vermont APSE/National Organizational Change Forum 2019. Thank you to all the presenters, vendors and participants for making this a great conference!