COVID'S effect on jobs for people with disability must be addressed: service provider

Barista Andrew Kenny

Barista Andrew Kenny Source: SBS

Australians living with a disability usually have a greater prospect of unemployment compared to other Australians.


Highlights
  • But during the coronavirus pandemic, the challenge of finding work for this group of employees has reached a new level of difficulty.
  • 39-year-old Andrew Kenny stopped working in April and had to move back in with his parents.
  • He has an intellectual disability and he says the search for work has been tough.
                                             





 


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