Hardly 'trash spawned by the media' when you can watch an MP stand up in parliament and spout half-baked ideas of why he thinks minimum wage should be done away for people with disabilities, simply so they can be put to work.
His suggestion is that disabled people should be able to be employed at less-than-minimum wage in order to prove they can still be a productive member of the human race. Of course an employer will be more likely to take on someone if they can get a similar level of work without having to pay the same wage - but that isn't the same thing as giving the disabled a fair shake now, is it?.
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Re: The press
Date: 2011-06-17 10:54 pm (UTC)His suggestion is that disabled people should be able to be employed at less-than-minimum wage in order to prove they can still be a productive member of the human race. Of course an employer will be more likely to take on someone if they can get a similar level of work without having to pay the same wage - but that isn't the same thing as giving the disabled a fair shake now, is it?.