Research shows 93% of unemployed people with disabilities have problems finding jobs. All Things Equal hopes to change that
Cafe Manager Jess Rastelli with two cafe workers, Harley and Paul , at the All Things Equal in Balaclava.Cafe Manager Jess Rastelli with two cafe workers, Harley and Paul , at the All Things Equal in Balaclava.As the hospitality industry continues to struggle with staff shortages, a cafe in Melbourne’s south-east seems to have the opposite problem: a growing waitlist of people wanting to join its team.
‘Who can’t remember their first job and the person who gave them their first chance?’ asks one of the cafe’s board members, Sam Herszberg.“There are hundreds of thousands of people with disabilities who are willing to work but they are too often overlooked,” Stern says. “Who can’t remember their first job and the person who gave them their first chance?” Herszberg says.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup “I hope business owners read that and think, ‘Oh, wow, I can also do something about this,’” Stern says.Almost 2.1 million people with disability are of working age in Australia, but research has shown 93% of unemployed people aged 15 to 64 with a disability have faced difficulty finding employment.and this has remain unchanged for decades.
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