The President and CEO of Land of Lincoln Goodwill in Central Illinois, Sharon Durbin, told a dozen of the thrift store’s workers with disabilities that they’ll no longer receive paychecks as a result of the state’s new minimum wage.
Share to twitterDecember 24, 2018 - Redmond, WA, USA: Goodwill is an American nonprofit organization that provides job training, employment placement services, and other community-based programs.The state of Illinois is to raise its minimum rage from $8.25 to $9.25 by January of 2020, $10 by the next July, and then a dollar more each year until it reaches $15 by 2020.
As a nonprofit organization that claims to help people with disabilities"reach their full potential," Goodwill's practice of paying its employees with disabilities sub-minimum wages seems, Durbin sent out a letter dated June 14 to the over 400 employees at 15 retail locations that she oversees. The letter outlined the upcoming changes to the Vocational Rehabilitation Program, which employs people with disabilities and provides them with work training.
The participants of the vocational program get paid $8.25 per hour, which Durbin considers as an act charity. No matter how long they’ve worked for Goodwill, their pay remained the same. Durbin,"it really was not a job. It was a work component and through it we gave them through grace out of our budget to pay them so they had a paycheck to go home with."
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