c/world · by Loco_Mex@sh.itjust.works · 39dDisabled workers paid $3 an hour at Australia’s ‘sheltered workshops’ https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2026/07/18/disabled-workers-paid-3-hour-australias-sheltered-workshopshttps://archive.md/DNYQH 90 points · 8 comments · view on lemmy.world
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Town@lemmy.zip · 26 pts · 39d
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.
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 39d
My state only made this illegal way too recently. Obviously, we hoped it would mean people would get paid a fair wage…
Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 38d
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?
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 37d
Still open. Just dropped the system where they hired people with intellectual disabilities.
architect@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 37d
Which, yea. If you need to hire someone and one is slower than the other…;
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 37d
Right but they weren’t being generous with their hiring, they were likely being exploitative.
Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 38d
We’ve been on the euphemism treadmill way too long for that organization not to have changed its name by now.
IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf · 5 pts · 37d
orphan crushing machine
3 bucks an hour?