{"id":3942,"date":"2018-04-05T17:20:16","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T21:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=3c5646a52c51e6d6af9e78354f871ccd"},"modified":"2018-04-05T17:20:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T21:20:16","slug":"walmart-canada-says-it-will-re-hire-disabled-workers-let-go-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/05\/walmart-canada-says-it-will-re-hire-disabled-workers-let-go-last-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart Canada says it will re-hire disabled workers let go last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL &#8212; Walmart Canada is backtracking on its controversial decision to withdraw from a program that provided work experience in its Quebec stores to people with disabilities or autism.<\/p>\n<p>The retail giant faced a public relations nightmare that included strong criticism online after a health agency said last week the program&#8217;s participants would be losing their jobs at Walmart stores in the province.<\/p>\n<p>A Walmart spokesperson tells The Canadian Press in an email all those who were let go are free to return to their positions under the same work conditions that existed before.<\/p>\n<p>The retailer says it will co-ordinate with local agencies to reintegrate people with disabilities or autism into its workforce.<\/p>\n<p>Walmart says its directive applies to all the stores in Quebec that had participated in the program but didn&#8217;t say how many outlets were involved.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear how many people were initially let go from Walmart stores after the company decided to stop participating in the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL &mdash; Walmart Canada is backtracking on its controversial decision to withdraw from a program that provided work experience in its Quebec stores to people with disabilities or autism. The retail giant faced a public relations nightmare that included strong criticism online after a health agency said last week the program&rsquo;s participants would be losing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3943,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942\/revisions\/3943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}