Human Services Committee Votes To Create Task Force To Investigate Subminimum Wage For People With Disabilities

Human Services Committee Votes To Create Task Force To Investigate Subminimum Wage For People With Disabilities

Members of the legislature’s Human Services Committee on Friday voted 14-6 to approve a bill that would create a task force to investigate whether the subminimum wage for people with disabilities should be eliminated.

Human Services Committee votes on disabled wage study bill

Those present at today’s Human Services Committee meeting voted favorably on a bill that would order the legislature to conduct a study on the potential impact of removing the state’s sub-minimum wage for employees with disabilities.While state governments may set their minimum wage as high as they decide, the federal minimum wage sets states’ minimum wage floors. However, the 1938 bill that first initiated the concept of a federal minimum wage,…