Disney promised 2,000 of its California staff new jobs in Florida, and requested that they transfer, earlier than abruptly canceling these plans and leaving the workers jobless, a lawsuit alleges.
Two staff within the grievance, which has but to be filed in L.A., say they bought their L.A.-area properties and bought property in Florida after the corporate directed them to relocate to help the development and staffing of a deliberate $1 billion campus.
However the positions they moved to take had been canceled, together with all 2,000 others related to the “Lake Nona” challenge after a feud between the corporate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis endangered its tax breaks.
Per the swimsuit, Disney staff Maria De La Cruz and George Fong needed to transfer again to California with the intention to hold their employment, with De La Cruz claiming that an inquiry on her job standing in Florida was ignored.
“In any case of this, will there be any safety in our positions? My concern can be that we resolve to remain in Florida, solely to be laid off within the subsequent yr or so. I don’t need to be punished for being put right into a scenario my firm put me in,” De La Cruz wrote to Disney Human Assets, per the grievance.
The 2 named events search to enter a class-action lawsuit with others who moved for the challenge, arguing that Disney misled the workers of the challenge’s future and “made it clear that staff who declined relocation would lose their jobs.”
The corporate beforehand drew criticism in 2017 for worker wages so low that many Anaheim park staff had been left homeless, in a yr when theme park income climbed 8%. California park staff made headlines earlier this yr once they introduced their intent to type a union, and garnered 1000’s of signatures to take action.