Disability services provider urged to apologise and compensate woman for ‘artificial’ and ‘inadequate’ barista training course

The disability royal commission has advised a company to make appropriate redress to a woman employed in an ‘inadequate’ barista training course. Photograph: Prostock-studio/Alamy

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.