The Dutch human rights commission has condemned government plans to allow employers to pay workers with a physical or mental disability below the minimum wage, reports Dutchnews.nl. Dutch ministers have said that allowing employers to break minimum pay rates will courage them to take on more disabled staff. The government’s plan involves allowing employers to pay disabled workers according to their productivity. So if someone is considered 50% disabled, the employer can pay them 50% of the minimum wage. Local authorities will then make up the difference. In a letter, the Human Rights Commission wrote that the government’s plan is discriminatory and will put workers in a worse position for pensions and other benefits such as unemployment insurance. Thousands of disabled people have ended up jobless after the government began closing down special sheltered workplaces several years ago.