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Asda has hired an autistic man who was let go by Waitrose after years of volunteering. Tom Boyd, 28, had worked in the Cheadle Hulme Waitrose store since 2021 with a support worker.

In a Facebook post mother, Frances Boyd, wrote that her “autistic son has been treated so unfairly, and we feel deeply let down” by Waitrose.

She said the supermarket declined to give him a paid job despite him offering more than 600 hours to the store “purely because he wanted to belong, contribute, and make a difference”.

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Boyd added that they had only asked for a few hours of paid work “not as charity, but as recognition for all the time, effort, and heart” Tom had given to the store, and that she and her famil

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