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Participant in BusyBeans program told the disability royal commission the training left her with a ‘broken life’
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A company that received nearly $1m in federal government funding has been advised by the disability royal commission to apologise and make appropriate redress to a woman employed in an “artificial” and “inadequate” barista training course that she said left her with a “broken life”.
The commission on Tuesday released its report and recommendations into the case of Disability Employment Services (DES) participant Mzia*, who was enrolled in 2019 in the BusyBeans “coffee school”, billed as a barista training course for people with disability.
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Mzia is a pseudonym provided by the royal commission
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