{"id":82086,"date":"2025-12-08T21:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=82086"},"modified":"2025-12-09T11:34:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T11:34:04","slug":"autistic-volunteer-accepts-paid-job-at-waitrose-after-being-sacked-in-row-over-free-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/12\/08\/autistic-volunteer-accepts-paid-job-at-waitrose-after-being-sacked-in-row-over-free-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Autistic volunteer accepts paid job at Waitrose after being &#8216;sacked&#8217; in row over free working"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1RZMAW.img?w=534&amp;h=301&amp;m=6&amp;x=309&amp;y=104&amp;s=130&amp;d=130\" alt=\"Tom Boyd, 28, (pictured) had been working unpaid at the supermarket giant since 2021\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An autistic volunteer &#8216;sacked&#8217; from stacking shelves at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/waitrose\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Waitrose<\/a> when his mother asked if he could be paid has been offered a proper job, the supermarket announced today.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/autistic-volunteer-accepts-paid-job-at-waitrose-after-being-sacked-in-row-over-free-working\/ar-AA1RZMB2?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=693807e783924025ae78f0871fdc6b27&amp;ei=24\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>An autistic volunteer &#8216;sacked&#8217; from stacking shelves at\u00a0Waitrose when his mother asked if he could be paid has been offered a proper&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/waitrose.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82086"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82125,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82086\/revisions\/82125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}