I was thinking that, minimum wage applies to all equally
Comment on Disabled people ‘effectively working for free for rest of year due to pay gap’
waz@feddit.uk 3 days ago
This is irritating, not because disabled people don’t deserve fair chances, but because of the measure of the ‘pay-gap’. This is the same issue with ‘gender pay gap’. It does not mean that people are getting paid differently because of being disabled, or because of gender. It is a measure of how often people have the salary they have based on having jobs that get certain salaries. Again; if they did the same job, they get paid the same. But they do different jobs and therefore get paid differently. So the issue is, how to make more types of jobs available to disabled people, not how to pay them fairly, equal pay is already a legal right.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Ozymandias88@feddit.uk 3 days ago
I don’t think it’s as black and white as that. There is a bit more info here: tuc.org.uk/…/tuc-disability-pay-gap-means-disable… Which includes a breakdown by level and shows people with a disability earn less regardless of level in the organisation. Granted there still could be different jobs inside each level but if the average disabled person, regardless of level earns less than the average non-disabled person either we have systemic discrimination affecting which jobs disabled people can get or affecting their salaries once they get those jobs (or both)
waz@feddit.uk 3 days ago
But the issue then is equal pay for the roles, which is already protected. The pay gap phrasing is not helpful is my point, and should be made more clear that the issue is opportunity. And this is very easy to understand that organisations have to put effort into making it possible for persons with disabilities to be able to work in their organisation in roles the more able persons would be automatically able to do so.