Alice Snedden’s Bad News MWEP
Roughly 900 people get paid between $2 and $5 an hour at work in Aotearoa as a result of the minimum wage exemption. Although it is a government initiative to get more people with learning disabilities into the workplace, it still makes Alice feel bad and weird. In this episode, she speaks to former minister for disability issues Carmel Sepuloni, disability rights lawyer Huhana Hickey, Altus CEO Martin Wylie and workers Tatiana Tupou and Samantha Gillespie about the pros and cons of the exemption.