New Hope Fails Program, Owes $154K to Workers With Disabilities

New Hope Services, a non-profit industrial work center that hires workers with disabilities, failed to ensure workers with disabilities received federally required job and career training, according to an investigation by the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division announced Friday.

The investigation recovered $154,443 in minimum wages for 74 workers. Since New Hope Services did not meet the federal program requirements of job and career training, the Jeffersonville, Ind.-based center did not qualify to pay sub-minimum wages. New Hope should have paid the workers the full federal minimum wage of $7.25 for every hour of work, according to the Labor ...