Blind since birth, writing code at Amazon since 2013
That was an amazing story!<p>I just hope that he is being payed fairly. Here is an example of someone who is disabled and not being payed fairly in my opinion.<p>&gt;Kandu Industries can pay Chris and roughly 150 other workers substantially below the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour because of a 1938 provision in the Fair Labor Standards Act that permits employers, who apply to the Department of Labor for a waiver, to pay lower wages to people with disabilities.[1]<p>&gt;According to the department, about 20 percent of people with disabilities participate in the workforce, and of that group, about 3 percent, or approximately 195,000 workers, are being paid subminimum wages. These workers typically make well below the minimum wage, sometimes as low as “pennies per hour,” according to the Department of Justice.[1]<p>(Many People With Disabilities Are Being Paid Way Below the Minimum Wage, and It’s Perfectly Legal)[<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.motherjones.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;many-people-with-disabilities-are-being-paid-way-below-the-minimum-wage-and-its-perfectly-legal&#x2F;][1]" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.motherjones.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;many-people-wit...</a>