Glossary
Section 14(c) of the
Fair Labor Standards
Act authorizes employers, after receiving a certificate from the U.S.
Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division, to pay special minimum wages—wages
less than the Federal minimum wage—to workers who have disabilities for the work
being performed. The certificate also allows the payment of wages that are less
than the prevailing wage to workers who have disabilities for the work being
performed on contracts subject to the
McNamara-O’Hara
Service Contract Act and the
Walsh-Healey Public
Contracts Act.
A worker who has a disability for the job being performed is one whose
earning or productive capacity is impaired by a physical or mental disability,
including those relating to age or injury. Disabilities that may affect
productive capacity include blindness, mental illness, mental retardation,
cerebral palsy, alcoholism, and drug addiction. See the
Section 14(c) elaws Advisor for
additional information.
Please note that the definitions have been adopted from various programs and may differ from the
controlling statutory or regulatory definitions. Similar terms may have different meanings when used in
a particular statute or regulation.
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