Swedish law:hire an aspie trainee for free, get payed for it

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In Sweden we have a law that says that if you accept someone as a trainee, i e free work force, you don't have to pay them anything at all even if they do the same work and hours as employes AND you get payed by the government about 400$ per month if the trainee that you hire has a diagnosis of AS or ADHD and the like.

What are your thoughts on this?
I'm guessing that it's supposed to give us an more equal chance at getting a job, but are we really that horrible that my (hypothetical) boss needs to get 400$ in his pocket for the trouble of having me sweeping his floors?

The thing that can be good about it is maybe if some company has to many prejudices and you really want to work there, then this could be an argument that gets you in to prove your self.
But that is about the only good scenario that I can think of while I can see alot of ways that this can be misused and abused.
I can hear a clear (not meaning literally) "please let him just be here during the days, he's useless but we'll give you a check if you just", how would that actually make someone want to hire you when your trainee time is up? It only increases the vision that you are useless/worthless as a worker. If someone would actually be a useless worker, and that somehow being caused by AS, then that person should not and would probably not request that trainee spot anyways.
I find this degrading and offensive (not to mention again amazed on how ignorant and unintellegent politicians are while trying to be helpfull).

How do you read in to this law? What are your feelings about it's existence?

If find this hard to believe. Maybe Swedish society is different but here in the US I can see employers abusing the s**t out of something like this. You get a slave AND the government pays you $400? Something just doesn't seem right. There must be some protections in place.

Rascal77s: employers are abusing the sh** out of it, I haven't read the exact law but I see this in action everywhere (I know alot of aspies IRL), I think there might be something that says that you can't have someone as a trainee for more than 6 months without giving them employment.
One of our foodstore chains "Willys" are known for abusing this, they always have a couple of handicapped people working around in the store and they never hire any of them.

BlueAbyss: The only thing that you get from the company that you work for is an entry in your CV, like a certificate thst you have worked there and that is suposed to help you while searching for other jobs cause then you can show that you have experience. slave work for 6 months just to get to be able to write a line on a paper doesn't seem like a fair trade to me. And I also know for a fact that I can write that line for myself on my CV and no one would bother looking up with that company if I actually worked there or just made it up.

Bad idea, very bad idea.