Karen Park sat at a table on Tuesday putting plastic sleeves around bottles of tire sealant at Ideal Industries Incorporated. She loves her job and her fellow employees, most with physical or cognitive disabilities.“I’ve been here at Ideal for 6 years,” she said. “This place is my family.” But 67 workers at Ideal Industries Inc., like Park, are paid less than minimum wage to accomplish various work at the Ray County nonprofit.Ideal Industries Inc.’s labor practice is legal. But it is now under scrutiny from the U.S. Labor Department along with similar employers across the country.The Biden administration, in December, introduced a rule to abolish subminimum wage certificates for employers like Ideal Industries Inc. over the next three years. The public comment period ends Jan 17, just days before Biden leaves office. Families and employers around the country are now pushing the Trump administration to reverse the proposed rule.The U.S. …
