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<section article="gle" article_name="Labor and Employment" number="3-414" title_number="3" title_name="Employment Standards and Conditions" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Wages and Hours">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “federal certificate” means a certificate that the United States Department of Labor issues to a work activities center or other sheltered workshop to allow the workshop to pay an individual less than the wage otherwise required for that individual under the federal Act.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Beginning October 1, 2020, the Commissioner may not authorize a work activities center or other sheltered workshop to pay an employee with a disability less than the minimum wage otherwise required under this subtitle for the employee.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Beginning October 1, 2020, a work activities center or workshop may pay an employee with a disability less than the federal prevailing wage of pay to the extent authorized by federal law if the work activities center or other sheltered workshop:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>was authorized by the Commissioner before October 1, 2016, to pay an employee with a disability less than the minimum wage that was otherwise required under this subtitle for the employee through the acceptance of a federal certificate; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the work activities center or workshop maintains the federal certificate.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Commissioner shall accept a federal certificate if a work activities center or other sheltered workshop submits that certificate to the Commissioner within 10 days after the workshop receives the certificate.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Each certificate that the Commissioner issues under this section shall state the period for which the certificate is in effect.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The acceptance of a federal certificate does not apply automatically to an individual whom a work activities center or other sheltered workshop continues to employ after the individual completes a training program that the workshop runs.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Commissioner may revoke acceptance of a federal certificate if:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the United States Department of Labor revokes the federal certificate; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>at any time before revocation by the Department of Labor and after an investigation and hearing, the Commissioner finds good cause to revoke the acceptance.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Commissioner shall send notice of a hearing under this subsection, by certified mail, to the holder of the federal certificate at least 30 days before the hearing.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
