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.
My state only made this illegal way too recently. Obviously, we hoped it would mean people would get paid a fair wage…
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?
Still open. Just dropped the system where they hired people with intellectual disabilities.
Which, yea. If you need to hire someone and one is slower than the other…;
Right but they weren’t being generous with their hiring, they were likely being exploitative.
We’ve been on the euphemism treadmill way too long for that organization not to have changed its name by now.
orphan crushing machine
3 bucks an hour?
