nonprofit exemption to minimum wage laws
Sympathy for Nonprofits We Can Do Without
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Searching for a rationale for keeping nonprofit workers on wages too low to live on? Try these out—straight from Silicon Valley!
minimum wage
Big Gains on Minimum Wage in 2018
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In 2019, 20 states and 21 cities will be raising their minimum wages, directly bumping up the wages of 5.3 million workers and indirectly benefiting more.
elder care
San Francisco May Offer Wage Bump to Eldercare Workers on the Brink
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The San Francisco board of supervisors sees an eldercare crisis headed right at the city and they are not alone.
sheltered workshops
Times Change: One More Goodwill Phases Out its Sheltered Workshop
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The practice of nonprofits and for-profits paying workers with disabilities less than minimum wage, permitted by a 1938 law, is declining, but not fast enough.
nonprofit exemption to minimum wage laws
Workers with Disabilities Suffer Wage Abuse at Nation’s Nonprofits
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The Bangor Daily News has taken a well-reasoned stance against the sub-minimum wage as the last such program in Maine is publicly exposed for its practices.
Nonprofit Management
Maine’s Last Nonprofit to Pay a Subminimum Wage Shows a Familiar Profile
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An outdated provision in law that allows some workers to be paid less than minimum wage is still in use in pockets around the country. In Maine, a nonprofit called Skills, Inc., pays some of its workers with disabilities as little as $2 to $3 an hour while consistently paying top managers six-figure salaries.
Fight for $15
Nonprofits and the Wage Landscape: Choose your Position
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Cost of living and minimum wage disparities in the Washington, D.C. area further illustrate the need for an increase in the federal minimum wage.
contract workers
Coalition Presses the Issue of Minimum Nonprofit Workers’ Wage in NY
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In New York, where fast food workers must make $15/hour, about half of the human service workers at nonprofits with state contracts make less than that. A coalition of groups is trying to change that.
Nonprofit News
L.A. Supervisors Reject Nonprofit Exemption in New Minimum Wage Law
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The supervisors went in the opposite direction of the Los Angeles City Council, which approved exemptions for nonprofits when it adopted the $15-per-hour minimum earlier this summer.
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Messages for Nonprofits on the New Higher Minimum Wage in Los Angeles
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Where do nonprofits stand on increasing the minimum wage? Maybe the better question is where the unions stand—and why.