The Dutch government has abandoned its plan to allow companies to pay people with a disability less than the legal minimum wage after concluding the process would be too complicated, reports DutchNews.nl. Earlier this year the Dutch human rights commission condemned the plan and called it discriminatory while adding that it will put workers in a worse position for pensions and other benefits such as unemployment insurance. The plan was also condemned by disability rights campaigners as well as the macro-economic policy unit CPB. Currently, companies that employ disabled people are given a subsidy by the local council and the person in question is paid according to the same collective labour agreement as his or her colleagues. In the new plan the employer would only pay for the productivity of the person with a disability, who could then claim a top-up to minimum wage level from their local council. Ministers have previously said that allowing employers to break minimum pay rates will encourage them to take on more disabled staff.