Safeway Honors 10,000 Employees with Disabilities, Cites Benefits of Tapping “Overlooked Talent Pool”
As the nation celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Safeway honored its nearly 10,000 employees with disabilities at a launch fundraising event for rehab services, autism programs, job training grants and the Special Olympics. Safeway Foundation Chair and Executive Vice President Larree Renda advised other businesses to follow Safeway’s lead and “tap this otherwise overlooked and underutilized talent pool.” For more on this Fortune 50 company’s smart and humane commitment to people with disabilities, click here.
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The initiative taken by Safeway with respect to the disabled employees is exemplary.
Disabilities do not render human beings useless or make them a liability as most lacking any insight to the matter would assume.
On the contrary, we have examples of people like Stephen Hawking who is without question one of the most brilliant individuals alive but who also battles a severe physical disability. His physical disability has not hindered his scientific genius. The investment made by ibm in providing him with the tools to function have proved useful and profitable for the scientific enterprise, the society and the immediate sponsors or funders of the man. It is about time that we recognize the abilities of those who may have a handicap but possess strengths that are unique and desirable in the workforce. Thanks for sharing the article.
Ayesha