Peelcon is the trading arm of Peel Personnel Inc. The objective of setting up Peelcon in 1995, was to create jobs in the Peel region for people with disabilities by tendering for commercial contracts. Mandurah has an unemployment rate higher than the national average.
There is little major industry in the region which contributes to the high unemployment rate and thus people with disabilities have found it difficult to compete for work.
Peelcon tenders for commercial contracts on the open market and employs mainly people with disabilities to service those contracts. At present, Peelcon has 65 people on its payroll, working from 8 hours to fulltime, servicing a myriad of contracts which generate a gross income of over 1 million dollars.
Other contracts serviced by Peelcon are car cleaning, doing laundry for local radiographers and beauty shops, supplying labour for Cleanaway recycling plant, trolley collection for Woolworths, and other miscellaneous contracts.
Most of the people working for Peelcon are working to their maximum capacity, whether it is 8 hours or 30 hours. What is important is that they are contributing to our local community by working to their maximum capacity.
Workers are paid under the minimum wages legislation of Western Australia, or under the appropriate award rates, as occurs with Cleanaway.
Disabilities seen at Peelcon range from physical disabilities, psychiatric, intellectual and learning disabilities to wheelchair bound people, deafness, acquired brain injury and cerebal palsy
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