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Elynwood Pty Ltd, a professional cleaning and catering service, aims to have people with disability make up at least ten per cent of its workforce.
The business benefits to Elynwood are clear: staff are productive, motivated and loyal.
Michael Ebejer, Managing Director says, ‘Elynwood's core business is cleaning and catering. We service over 100 sites, mainly in the cleaning division, and with the catering, we specialise in retirement villages’.
‘The benefits to our business of employing people with disabilities—I think, it's self satisfaction. I think we're proud that we've helped people. And, in return, we've got loyalty, dedication and less turnover'.
Catering Manager, Jo Spiteri explains: ‘We employed people with disabilities because it gave us an opportunity to expand our workforce. It was also a way of giving back something to society and helping people’.
‘We find that people with disabilities take less time off. They're more conscientious and more motivated to get the job done. They just want to fit in. So they're out there to prove that they can actually do the tasks put before them’, Jo adds.
One of Elynwood’s employees is Lee Hart, Head Chef who states: ‘Well, I've been employed with Elynwood for the last four and a half years. They put me on a work training program to see how I could cope with a return to work. After the work training program, they were happy with my performance and then offered me casual work, which has now turned into permanent part time employment’.
‘Elynwood's future direction is to maintain providing an excellent service in the cleaning and hospitality field and to continue working with people with disabilities’, says Michael.
‘I would advise other employers to look at the opportunities of employing disabled people because they have so much to offer and often they are so motivated and want to be in the workplace that they'll give you 110 per cent’, says Jo.
Strengthen your business by employing people with disability.
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