We had a program here for many years where we trained adults with mental limitations (I hate the word challenged and challenges pertaining to mental or physical handicaps!) To work with the horses and landscaping and then placed them in compatible work environments. We had to establish a criteria for each job, cleaning a stall, cleaning horse troughs, grooming, and each one was broken down into timeframes. We then had 3 non disabled individuals complete every task three times and then averaged each component of that job. That established the baseline and then we tested each disabled individual to establish the rate of pay. We had to reevaluate every 90 days, and if they were not increasing their rate of pay we had to indicate why they could not increase the rate of pay or find another training that they could do better. It was very intense but so well worth it!
From: Todd Daugherty [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 1:26 PM To: Aaron Mann Cc: RONALD L PRACHT; [email protected] Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Not so Goodwill Here are the regs for employment of workers with disabilities. I didn't realize this existed.. http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs39.pdf On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Aaron Mann <[email protected]> wrote: Well, you've got to look at it from the employers point of view. Minimum wage is $7.25/hr. That is for one hour of 100% of the expected work at 100% efficiency. Say you have a cognitive disability that prevents you from being able to reach 100/100, you can only perform 50% of the expected work within an hour at 80% efficiency. The employer should be able to say, OK, I'll hire you for $4/hr for 20 hours a week. To me, this is MUCH better than saying, No, you're not hire able because you will never meet the standard bar. Make sense? Aaron Mann On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 1:10 PM, RONALD L PRACHT <[email protected]> wrote: Ive had job offers at the police academy and the organization I swim for. When I asked how much they pay I was told just come in and start and we will discuss it. Somehow I remember that never being the case b4 I was disabled. I was always told a starting wage when I was a walking man. Even sears offered me a job without discussion of pay. Oh well it is what it is. Ron From: Todd Daugherty <[email protected]> To: quad list <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 11:02 AM Subject: [QUAD-L] Not so Goodwill http://www.upworthy.com/words-like-good-and-will-dont-belong-together-if-thi s-is-the-kind-of-thing-they-do-5
