FEATURE
Bottom Dollars
Jordan Melograna|US|English|55 MIN|2016
David Carlson, Jordan Melograna, Tina Pinedo, & Mark Stroh
Hearing Loss and Deafness|Intellectual Disability|Learning Disability|Mental Health|Multiple Disabilities|Physical Disability|Speech and Language Disorders|Vision Loss and Blindness
Business
Disability Rights
Employment
Finance
Social issues
The 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act created the revolutionary workers’ rights protection: the minimum wage. Yet as the film uncovers, Section 14(c) still provides a terrible and abusive exemption that allows employers to pay “special minimum wages”—wages less than the Federal minimum wage—“to workers who have disabilities.”