Recruitment lift at Remploy Work Club

WITHOUT Remploy, job-seekers with disabilities and learning difficulties will be stuck at the bottom of the pile, say the company’s workers.

Employees gave their views at the launch of a special Remploy work club.

The local company will close by the end of the year, and the work club has been started at Oldham’s specialist training centre to help workers find new jobs.

The centre, opened three years ago, helped almost 300 people with special requirements into mainstream jobs last year.

The club will run from noon-2pm, every Wednesday. Information on 0300-456 8046, or email oldham.branch@ remploy.co.uk.

The Chronicle spoke to a selection of centre users about their search for new work.

Jane Caldecott (42) was typical of the group.

She had been out of work for more than 20 years while caring for her son. The Fitton Hill resident is battling depression, deafness in one ear and back problems. She now works for Caremark, based at the Remploy offices on Ashton Road, Bardsley, following support from the Union Street centre.

She said: “If it wasn’t for Remploy I would still be at the bottom of the pile for job applications, because I had not worked for such a long time.

“For every one disabled person, there’s 1,000 able-bodied people. So when I was referred to the branch they prepared me and they put 1,000 per cent into helping me.

“I will not lose my job when the factory closes, as we just use the offices, but it’s awful that it is closing. More should be done to help people with disabilities.”


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