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'An affront to dignity': The system allowing people with disability to be paid $6 an hour

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Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Baku@aussie.zone⁩ to ⁨australia@aussie.zone⁩

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-29/australian-disability-enterprises-future-royal-commission/104331332

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  • abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wow. Even the US doesn't have it this bad.

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    • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What on earth is your instance name?

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      • abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Good question!

        I essentially self-host my own pyfedi instance ( pyfedi is to piefed.social as lemmy is to aussie.zone ) - and thanks to srv.us I do it for free! (Well, I have my own internet connection that's subsidized and run the software on an old spare laptop at home, so still free overall, but srv.us just provides the permanent domain name.)

        Alas, the price of not paying for a persistent and unchanging domain name is not being able to choose the domain name.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes we do…

      www.dol.gov/general/topic/wages/subminimumwage

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      • abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ouch! Yep, I stand corrected.

        Incidentally, might this be the article that you read?
        https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/08/30/subminimum-wage-disabled-workers/

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