GLENRAY is committed to keeping its supported employees in jobs and continuing to deliver services to people with disability during the coronavirus pandemic.
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The ever-changing health crisis has had a huge impact on a range of different businesses and organisations in Bathurst and Glenray hasn't been immune from the effects.
However, every precaution and measure is being taken to ensure clients can still access services whilst reducing the risk of exposure or infection for both them and Glenray staff.
"We continue to remain committed to provide a delivery of services to people with disabilities, otherwise if we don't the lives of these people are at risk," general manager of Glenray, Kath Graham, said.
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One of the operations run by Glenray is a laundry service, which has been affected by the hit the tourism and hospitality sectors have taken as a result of restrictions from the state and federal governments.
However, Ms Graham said she doesn't see the laundry service shutting down entirely and so far none of Glenray's staff have had to be stood down.
"We're asking staff where possible who have excessive leave to take some annual leave at the present time," she said.
"We're certainly investigating the government's new JobKeeper information that has just come out, we have registered for that, and we'll continue to monitor that and wait for information to come from the government."
As Glenray's supported employees are often more vulnerable health-wise, they were told they could stay at home and isolate if they wanted to.
"Some of them have elderly parents and so forth, we were certainly quite mindful of that, so we gave those people and families those decisions to make," Ms Graham said.
For the supported employees who also live at Glenray's village, the decision was made to remove them from the workforce so they could self-isolate at the village.
They continue to receive care and essential services.
"Our main priority was to make sure that we're continuing to keep all of our clients and the wider community of Bathurst safe, so we've done that as well," Ms Graham said.
Further to this, many of Glenray's staff who were able to work from home are now doing that and the organisation has implemented temperature testing for all staff who come onto any sites.
Glenray looks forward to resuming normal operations once Australia comes out the other side of the crisis and until then, people with disabilities will continue to be prioritised and supported.
"We can't stop and we will not stop," Ms Graham said.
