Who receives the Special minimum wage?

The United States Department of labor wage and hour Division has a certificate authorizing the payment of special minimum wages to workers with disabilities for the work they are doing. The authority to dispense the prescribed minimum wages to workers with disabilities applies to the work covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act (SCA) and/or public contracts Act Walsh-Healey (PCA). These wage types are called as "commensurate wage rates" and are actually less than the basic hourly rates stated in an SCA wage determination and less than FLSA minimum wage of $7,25 at the beginning, now the July 24, 2009.

In general, a particular "commensurate wage rate" shall be based on the individual worker's productivity regardless of how limited is considered as a proportion of salary and employee productivity with experience without any disabilities that impair productivity while doing the same type, quality and quantity of work in the same geographical community where the company's workforce is drawn.

For the purposes of paying salary commensurate rates under this certificate, an employee with a disability can be defined as follows.

A person whose earnings or productivity is impaired by a physical or mental disability, including age or injury factors in relation to the work to be performed.Disabilities that could hinder production capacity as blindness, mental illness, drug addiction, production capacity for the purposes of payment of commensurate salaries include educational disabilities, non-attendance at school, juvenile delinquency, chronic unemployment, receipt of welfare benefits and correctional words.Nondisabled worker standard: target indicator used to measure. This is generally the time study of the productivity shown by non-disabled workers used comparatively to measure the productivity of a worker with a disability.Prevailing wage rate refers to the salaries given to employees without disabilities experts which may impair their productivity for the same work or similar work and who are involved in such work in that area.Evaluation of productivity of disabled worker must involve recorded measurement of output of the disabled worker in terms of quality and quantity. Periodically, employers must review the commensurate wages paid by employees with disabilities. For example, the productivity of hourly-paid workers must be reevaluated at regular intervals. Once in six months, the productivity of hourly paid workers must be re-evaluated and new wage survey must be carried out not less than once in a year. How and when the Federal minimum wage rose, prevailing wages must be reviewed accordingly.

Those employees, who perform the work that is subject to the FLSA, SCA and PCA must be paid no less than 1 times their regular rate of pay for all hours worked by the employee over 40 in a week. Those employees who are minors under the age of 18 years of age must be used in compliance with the provisions of FLSA. Individuals not under 16 years may be employed in the production of related works or on a PCA contract. All employees with disabilities shall be informed orally and in writing by the employer with regard to the terms of the certificate in which he or she is employed.

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