An alliance of business and labor is urging Congress to make changes in the Javits-Wagner-O'Day program.An alliance of business and labor is urging Congress to make changes in the Javits-Wagner-O'Day program, which steers federal contracts to organizations that employ blind and severely disabled people. The Independent Office Products and Furniture Dealers Association The Independent Office Products and Furniture Dealers Association (IOPFDA), formerly Business Products International Association and the National Office Products Association, is a trade association for resellers of office furniture and office products. and the Service Employees International Union are among those urging reform of the program, National Journal reported. But they are attracting little support from lawmakers because, a union official said, no one wants to be accused of taking jobs away from people with disabilities. JWOD's nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. affiliates supply a variety of services and products to the government under a mandatory Peremptory; obligatory; required; that which must be subscribed to or obeyed. Mandatory statutes are those that require, as opposed to permit, a particular course of action. source preference first enacted by Congress in 1938. They are permitted to pay disabled employees less than the minimum wage. JWOD JWOD Javits-Wagner-O'Day (US federal job/training program) contractors' sales topped $2 billion last year, the newspaper reported. |
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