[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR525.1]

[Page 136-137]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 525_EMPLOYMENT OF WORKERS WITH DISABILITIES UNDER SPECIAL 
CERTIFICATES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 525.1  Introduction.




Sec.
525.1 Introduction.
525.2 Purpose and scope.
525.3 Definitions.
525.4 Patient workers.

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525.5 Wage payments.
525.6 Compensable time.
525.7 Application for certificates.
525.8 Special provisions for temporary authority.
525.9 Criteria for employment of workers with disabilities under 
          certificates at special minimum wage rates.
525.10 Prevailing wage rates.
525.11 Issuance of certificates.
525.12 Terms and conditions of special minimum wage certificates.
525.13 Renewal of special minimum wage certificates.
525.14 Posting of notices.
525.15 Industrial homework.
525.16 Records to be kept by employers.
525.17 Revocation of certificates.
525.18 Review.
525.19 Investigations and hearings.
525.20 Relation to other laws.
525.21 Lowering of wage rates.
525.22 Employee's right to petition.
525.23 Work activities centers.
525.24 Advisory Committee on Special Minimum Wages.

    Authority: 52 Stat. 1060, as amended (29 U.S.C. 201-219); Pub. L. 
99-486, 100 Stat. 1229 (29 U.S.C. 214).

    Source: 54 FR 32928, Aug. 10, 1989, unless otherwise noted.


    The Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1986 (Pub. L. 99-486, 100 
Stat. 1229) substantially revised those provisions of the Fair Labor 
Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 201) (FLSA) permitting the employment 
of individuals disabled for the work to be performed (workers with 
disabilities) at special minimum wage rates below the rate that would 
otherwise be required by statute. These provisions are codified at 
section 14(c) of the FLSA and:
    (a) Provide for the employment under certificates of individuals 
with disabilities at special minimum wage rates which are commensurate 
with those paid to workers not disabled for the work to be performed 
employed in the vicinity for essentially the same type, quality, and 
quantity of work;
    (b) Require employers to provide written assurances that wage rates 
of individuals paid on an hourly rate basis be reviewed at least once 
every six months and that the wages of all employees be reviewed at 
least annually to reflect changes in the prevailing wages paid to 
experienced individuals not disabled for the work to be performed 
employed in the locality for essentially the same type of work;
    (c) Prohibit employers from reducing the wage rates prescribed by 
certificate in effect on June 1, 1986, for two years;
    (d) Permit the continuance or establishment of work activities 
centers; and
    (e) Provide that any employee receiving a special minimum wage rate 
pursuant to section 14(c), or the parent or guardian of such an 
employee, may petition for a review of that wage rate by an 
administrative law judge.