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Disabled workers paid $3 an hour at Australia’s ‘sheltered workshops’ (www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au)
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[–] 26 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Arc, the Association of Retarded Children does this with adults in the US too. They call it "vocational training", but really it's just cheap labor.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    My state only made this illegal way too recently. Obviously, we hoped it would mean people would get paid a fair wage…

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Let me guess - instead of the employees getting increased pay, the business owners just shut down the places they worked at since they couldn’t make a dime, anymore?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Still open. Just dropped the system where they hired people with intellectual disabilities.

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    • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    orphan crushing machine

    3 bucks an hour?

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