Autistic volunteer let go from Waitrose job after family asked for him to be paid

Mother of autistic son 'sacked' from Waitrose says he 'deserves better'Credit: BBC Breakfast

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00:00He started at Waitrose because he was on a college placement. It began with one

00:06hour a week and it started building up over time as it progressed and he got

00:10better at it and used to doing it and everything was working and eventually

00:15when he left college we asked if he could increase that time to two days

00:18which it did and we thought this is working so well why don't we ask Waitrose

00:23if there's the possibility of paid work. They didn't say no and they which gave

00:28us a feeling that it was a possibility you know there was no no immediately so

00:32we thought there's a chance here and but at the time they said come back to us

00:37we've got perhaps recruitment in January and then we can look at it again and

00:43time just went by and I think by July of this year it went to head office because

00:49I don't think they could make us they couldn't make a decision within the store

00:52without taking it to head office and once head office found out about it the

00:57placement was stopped