With Ph.D.s who use a wheelchair, there is a law against them working for less than minimum wage, but we've somehow found a way to make this acceptable for certain people.

I'll beg off for a couple of seconds and acknowledge that I'm sitting in a wheelchair today because today's the day on Parliament where MPs walk a mile in somebody else's shoes by rolling along in a wheelchair and try to see what it's like to be a disabled person.

EUROPA - EU law and publications - EUR-Lex - EUR-Lex - 32014R1300 - EN - Commission Regulation (EU) No 1300/2014 of 18 November 2014 on the technical specifications for interoperability relating to accessibility of the Union's rail system for persons with disabilities and persons with reduced mobility Text with EEA relevance // COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1300/2014 // (Text with EEA relevance) // Appendix A // Standards or Normative Documents Referred to in this TSI // Appendix B // Temporary prioritization rule for the upgrade/renewal of stations // Appendix C // Information to be provided in a National Implementation Plan (NIP) // Ap ...[+++]pendix D // Assessment of interoperability constituents // Appendix E // Assessment of the subsystems // Appendix F // Renewal or upgrade of rolling stock // Appendix G // Passenger external doors audible warnings // Appendix H // Diagrams of priority seats // Appendix I // Diagrams of wheelchair spaces // Appendix J // Diagrams of clearways // Appendix K // Table of the corridor width for wheelchair accessible areas in Rolling Stock // Appendix L // Reach zone of a wheelchair user // Appendix M // Wheelchair transportable by train // Appendix N // PRM Signage

The wheelchair space shall be fitted with a call for aid device that shall, in the event of danger, provide to a wheelchair user the possibility to inform a person who can take appropriate action.

2. Carriage of medical equipment and of the mobility equipment necessary for the disabled person or person with reduced mobility, including electric wheelchairs.

For example, the legislation will guarantee the tax free status of adapting privately owned vehicles to the needs of the individuals who use wheelchairs.