MH Equipment Paying Employees to Give Back as Community Volunteers

DAYTON, Ohio (WKEF/ WRGT) – April 22, 2020

MH Equipment is putting people first. MH Equipment is paying its employees to give back as community volunteers. The forklift dealer for Hyster-Yale is considered an essential business, but with work slowing down, the company is paying its employees to volunteer n the community.

One of the biggest things we are doing is allowing our technicians to use ‘unbillable time’ to help out in their local community. If a branch doesn’t have sufficient work to keep an employee busy 40 hours a week, the supervisor will then offer volunteer opportunities to local charitable efforts.

“We designed a company around our employees, and they’re the fundamental foundation of what we do,” said Joshua Briggs. “If we don’t put our investment into those people then we’re not here to operate.”

The company has 45 employees locally. All of them are eager to help anyway they can.  They have been working with local food banks including the Dayton Foodbank and St Vincent de Paul and trying to donate people to help elderly mow their grass. “We can loan you an individual to help you do your grocery shopping or something along those lines,” said Briggs.

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Many branches have arrangements with local food banks to run forklifts loading/unloading trucks, meal delivery, packaging, etc. This is the large majority of what our employees have been doing, but then we have a wide of variety of other projects such as:

Light mechanical work on a fire engine at a volunteer fire department
Making masks
Mowing yards for various not-for-profit organizations
Mowing yards for elderly
Cleaning up cemeteries

If you could use their support call 937-890-6800.

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