Tim Hortons owner reaches out to unemployed Goodwill workers (The Star)

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Published on Sun Jan 24 2016


Mark Wafer knows what it’s like being qualified for a job but being turned down due to a disability.

The Toronto Tim Hortons franchise owner has reached out to former Goodwill employees after 16 stores and 10 donation centres in Ontario abruptly closed a week ago leaving 430 workers without jobs.

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“We have employed 126 people with disabilities over the past 20 years, all in meaningful and competitively paid positions,” Wafer said via email. “These range from entry level to management and cross all disability types, from developmentally challenged to deaf, blind, physical, mental health and episodic conditions, such as MS.”

So far, four people have contacted Wafer at [e-mail] and two have made appointments for job interviews this week.

Link: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/01/24/tim-hortons-owner-reaches-out-to-unemployed-goodwill-workers.html

[Suich]

1. Pretty cool, Mark Wafer!

[shenmue]

2. Yes