A Sarnia, Ontario, woman and her disabled son are appealing to the province’s Human Rights Tribunal to force a local agency to pay him more than the 46 cents [$0.35 USD] an hour he’s been earning for his work. Erla McCormick says that rate—23 times lower than Ontario’s minimum wage of $10.79 an hour—is what her son Kris has earned at a workshop for adults with intellectual disabilities over the past ten years.

Erla McCormick agrees the service is a respite for parents and caregivers, and clients don’t work all day long, but she feels they should be paid minimum wage during the time they are actually making items that will be sold.

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