Goodwill Industries, a massive nonprofit that provides job opportunities at thrift stores nationwide, has been facing down a public relations debacle since investigations by NBC News and Watchdog.org revealed that disabled employees at some Goodwill stores had earned as little as 22 cents an hour in recent years. A subsequent investigation found that employees at a few Goodwill franchises were paid less than 10 cents an hour in 2011. But advocates for the disabled point out that Goodwill CEO Jim Gibbons brought home $729,000 in salary and deferred payment in 2011, and the CEO of Goodwill Southern California made $1.1 million that same year, according to reports. Salaries for CEOs at 150 Goodwill franchises across the country total $30 million. Twenty-three years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Goodwills actions should be universally recognized as disgraceful, said Ari Neeman, president of ASAN and member of the National Council on Disability. If you can afford to pay six- and seven-figure salaries to your executives, you can afford to pay minimum wage to your employees.
Posted on: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 12:12:50 +0000
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