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So you go to work tomorrow, and it is pay day. You receive a paycheck for $15.00 for two weeks of work. You speak to your supervisor, and you are informed that the company has switched to a new payroll model based on a new law, Section D (9) (u), that calculates wages based on a new commensurate wage formula.

ACCSES, the American Congress of Community Supports and Employment Services, is the name of an nonprofit “charitable” organization that claims to represent disability service providers across the country and professes to be the voice of disability service providers speaking for people with disabilities.

Today, the U.S. Department of Labor will be celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) with an all-day program.  There will be a host of presentations on various wage and workplace achievements.  However, a significant topic will not be discussed: Section 14(c) of the FLSA.  

The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) has been engaged in every aspect of the publishing marketplace to ensure that we continue to move toward the standard of "same book, same time, same price!" In other words our vision for the future is that a blind person (or anyone else requiring specific design features is a digital book to gain access to the content) will

Is Goodwill Tricking or Treating its Contributors?

When I first joined the National Federation of the Blind more than twenty-five years ago, ending discrimination in air travel was one of our major areas of focus. Articles from the Braille Monitor in the 80s tell the stories of these problems and our largely successful efforts to solve them.

I received a copy of a memorandum written by Curt Decker, executive director of the National Disability Rights Network (NDRN).

With the pending broadcast of a national news story on NBC Rock Center tonight making the public aware of the legal ability for employers to pay workers with disabilities wages less than the federal minimum wage, Goodwill Internati

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