Discrimination of the worst kind ... against the disadvantaged members of our community …are you guilty of this?
This company is breaking all the rules and doing it by providing employment to some of the most disadvantaged members of our community!
...Export sales of used clothes up by 15% adding an additional 9 000 tons of unwanted clothing for export! Totaling at a weight of over 60 000 tons!
How does he do it?
Well, the answer is simple. This company takes advantage of well structured high incentivisation from Government aid agencies schemes which promotes the employment disabled workers.
They are employed to collect, sort, and repackage clothes that people no longer require from households Australia wide. You know, the hand me downs, the favorite kids sleeping pj’s the old dressing gown and of course last year’s fashion that is now out dated! And why not? The government provides incredible incentive schemes to help them out, surely we can too…
A little known secret in this particular operation is that a whopping 95% of the staff are [dis]abled!
If we took a moment to reflect on unemployment provided stats provided by the ABS. (Australian bureau of Statistics)
Source: ABS, 2003, p26; Productivity Commission, Volume 2: Appendices, pA.6. Persons aged 15-64 years living in households. “The result of a lower labour force participation rate, when combined with a higher unemployment rate, is that people with disabilities are less likely to be employed than others. In 1993 a person with a disability was 23 per cent less likely than a person without a disability to be in employment, and in 1998 they were 26 per cent less likely to be employed.”
What is your percentage of disability workers in your workforce? Would you like to find out how you could make a difference to a disabled persons life? There are government subsidies to help you make that decision more cost effective too. Who ever said you couldn’t?
The skill set and level of dexterity is not essential, when sorting clothing items, a simply recognition of the size, colour and material are all the parameters needed to meet the export requirements set by government agencies. I bet there are many jobs in your company that could be easily outsourced to help disable members of our community too.
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Sleep peacefully at night and learn from the pros’
This company is breaking all the rules and doing it by providing employment to some of the most disadvantaged members of our community!
...Export sales of used clothes up by 15% adding an additional 9 000 tons of unwanted clothing for export! Totaling at a weight of over 60 000 tons!
How does he do it?
They are employed to collect, sort, and repackage clothes that people no longer require from households Australia wide. You know, the hand me downs, the favorite kids sleeping pj’s the old dressing gown and of course last year’s fashion that is now out dated! And why not? The government provides incredible incentive schemes to help them out, surely we can too…
A little known secret in this particular operation is that a whopping 95% of the staff are [dis]abled!
If we took a moment to reflect on unemployment provided stats provided by the ABS. (Australian bureau of Statistics)
Source: ABS, 2003, p26; Productivity Commission, Volume 2: Appendices, pA.6. Persons aged 15-64 years living in households. “The result of a lower labour force participation rate, when combined with a higher unemployment rate, is that people with disabilities are less likely to be employed than others. In 1993 a person with a disability was 23 per cent less likely than a person without a disability to be in employment, and in 1998 they were 26 per cent less likely to be employed.”
26%!
The skill set and level of dexterity is not essential, when sorting clothing items, a simply recognition of the size, colour and material are all the parameters needed to meet the export requirements set by government agencies. I bet there are many jobs in your company that could be easily outsourced to help disable members of our community too.
For further information you can like us on Facebook: EmployMe. You can help us and make a difference, by please liking us at: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Employme/516439028446500?sk=info&edit=eduwork
Visit our Website www.employme.com.au and see how you can get more involved.
Good idea to have the Facebook page and website at the bottom of each blog post - makes it easier for people to take action once you've engaged them through reading the post.
ReplyDeleteThanks Ben. Glad you like our layout - that is precisely what we would like. We would like to give our readers, especially the disabled, a voice for honesty and truth and compassion against some injustices. If people all over the world did this we could make some real changes. Thanks again Ben.
ReplyDeleteGood idea and I think you can help a lots of people and save the environmental, too. I think many people will support you.
ReplyDeleteHi Timm, thanks for your comment. Yes, you are absolutely right! We have lots of unwanted goods in our community and we can restore and recycle these goods for everyone's benefit, especially the environment too. It is great when someone’s trash becomes someone’s treasure.
ReplyDeleteDid you know that EmployME has started a business called RESTORE. We have a group of employees that travel to charity shops and storage warehouses to collect unwanted goods, then we return these goods to Oakleigh Sheltered Workshop where a group of very enthusiastic employees begin to restore these goods. We provide our employees with some training (we have volunteers who are ex-tradies, furniture restorers and handypersons to help), then sell our beautifully restored goods on our website employme.com. Check them out if you like. We think they’re fantastic!
Let us know if you have anything you would like restored; we’d be very happy to restore it for you. You can contact us at our office number or facebook page and we will come and collect it from you.
Thanks so much for your comments Timm. Best wishes from us at EmployMe.