Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 17 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES
Department of Human Services
Chapter 402 - SERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY HANDICAPPED
Section 17-402-18 - Workshop for the adult blind
Universal Citation: HI Admin Rules 17-402-18
Current through February, 2024
(a) The purpose of the workshop shall be:
(1) Not for profit but
for the purpose of carrying out a program of rehabilitation and for providing
remunerative employment and other occupational rehabilitating activity of an
educational or therapeutic nature.
(2) To provide long-term employment
opportunities for persons with limited abilities who are unable to compete in
the regular labor market, and employment opportunities as an interim step for
other persons who cannot be readily absorbed in the competitive labor
market.
(3) To provide means for
prevocational exploration of those clients who need a period of evaluation and
training in a regular work setting.
(b) Workshop operations include the manufacture of products, subcontract work, warehousing and distribution of goods and services.
(c) The workshop shall be determined to be a bona fide sheltered workshop by the wage and hour and public contracts divisions of the United States department of labor and shall provide for wages and benefits as follows:
(1) Special minimum rates authorized by the
United States department of labor for the clients and client-trainees of the
workshop, work activities center program, client-trainees as well as home
industry program.
(2) No less than
the prevailing minimum wage established by law for non-handicapped personnel
employed as aides.
(3) An hourly
wage or a piece-rate as approved by the United States department of labor and
allowed vacation and sick leave time for the workshop employees. They shall
also be provided with a designated number of paid holidays and covered by
worker's compensation and social security.
(d) The following are the eligibility requirements:
(1) The individual must be at
least sixteen years of age.
(2) The
individual must be legally blind.
(3) Other physically-handicapped persons may
be considered if seventy-five per cent of the direct labor in production is
being performed by legally-blind persons.
(4) Non-handicapped personnel may be
considered if personnel in paragraphs (2) and (3) above do not meet
qualifications to serve as aides.
(e) Sales activities of workshop goods and services shall be conducted in the following manner:
(1) Prices of manufactured goods shall be
established by the workshop manager and business enterprise manager utilizing
sound practices prevailing in the business community.
(2) Prices shall be based on labor costs
prevailing in similar occupations in industry, costs of raw material and
transportation and a small margin of profit to sustain operation of the
workshop.
(3) Prices of blind-made
products sold to the federal government shall comply with schedule of
blind-made products prepared by general services administration or with
purchasing and contracting officers' prices on bid items.
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