CVS Health, Kmart and Walgreens recognized for employment outreach efforts to disabled community

MELVILLE, N.Y. — CVS Health, Kmart and Walgreens were the three pharmacy retailers each identified as one of the "Top 50 Employers" in a recent Careers & disABLED magazine survey. This year marks the 24th annivesary edition of its "Top 50 Employers" list, which is a list of those companies chosen by the publication's readers as to where they would like to work or companies they have identified for reaching out to the disabled community. 

 

"Part of our diversity strategy is building communities and partnerships, creating innovative programs to bring talented people into our organization from under-represented and underserved populations — people with disabilities, military and military connected, mature workers, youth and incumbent workers," Leslie Reis, senior manager with CVS Health's Workforce Initiatives team, told the publication. "The work we do through Workforce Initiatives is helping people who might not have been given a shot," she said. "I love that we have the ability to change people's lives by connecting them to our enterprise and the opportunity for a rewarding career."

 

Careers & disABLED magazine, an EOP publication, also interviewed for the issue Angela Mackey, HR generalist at Walgreens' Pendegrass, Ga. distribution center who was recently named a Disability Employment Champion of Change by the White House. "Walgreens sets trends, not only in the way we recruit and train our employees, but in how we do business," she said.