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Protecting Workers with Disabilities from Exploitation: Dugan et. al v. Adelante Development Center, Inc.

Discrimination Wage Theft / Misclassification

Overview

Towards Justice filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of hundreds of New Mexico workers with physical and intellectual disabilities who are employed in โ€œsheltered workshops.โ€ In these workshops, workers with disabilities scan and shred documents, remove staples from paper with their hands, drive around town to retrieve boxes for shredding, fix tears in documents, and perform a variety of other tasks. For their labor, workers are paid less than the New Mexico or Albuquerque minimum wageโ€”sometimes as little as 18 cents per hour. Our clients seek an injunction against this anachronistic practice and backpay for illegal and unfair wages. ย 

 

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