Subminimum Wage Employment for Workers with Disabilities (FLSA 14©)

Current understanding

To be populated as evidence accumulates.

2023-03-01 — Restoration of Employment Choice for Adults with Disabilities Act: The introduced version of the Restoration of Employment Choice for Adults with Disabilities Act would remove pre-employment training prerequisites for workers with disabilities aged 24 and younger entering subminimum-wage jobs and ease employer compliance with state-provided career-counseling requirements; this finding does not establish changes in the subsequently reported amended version. (novelty: 2)
2026-05-21 — Restoration of Employment Choice for Adults with Disabilities Act: Restoration of Employment Choice for Adults with Disabilities Act (introduced) would relax FLSA 14© special wage certificate prerequisites — dropping youth pre-employment transition and vocational-rehabilitation requirements and deeming a documented but unanswered employer outreach to the state agency sufficient to satisfy career-counseling referral duties. (novelty: 3)