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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums18,000 Walt Disney World employees are losing their jobs as part of mass layoffs
Just because you have a Republican governor who is pushing for business as usual while a pandemic is raging, this does not mean that the economy will not suffer.
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/tourism/os-bz-disney-world-layoffs-20201030-huw4gsuz3vbhnmqe7dewuuoup4-story.html
New federally required government filings give more insight: Orlandos numbers are much higher than California, where Disneyland remains closed because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Nearly 18,000 people are getting laid off in Florida, according to the report, or nearly a quarter of the resorts Orlando workforce of 77,000 a year ago.
Disney filed a new notice of mass layoffs this week that revealed 11,350 Disney World Parks and Resorts union employees being laid off as of Dec. 31. Late last month, the company filed a notice that 6,390 non-union Disney World Parks and Resorts employees would be out of work starting Dec. 4.
exboyfil
(17,862 posts)for the live shows. The folks are unionized. It looks a lot like a death spiral. What makes them different than Great America or Magic Mountain if they don't have the phenomenal live shows.
Klaralven
(7,510 posts)The largest collection of primary colored plastic anywhere in the US.
trackfan
(3,650 posts)It's been a good run. I started there in July 2019, on a six month contract, which was extended, in January, for another six months.
Then Covid-19 hit, and in March we were all set up to work at home. In May they called me, and said that, due to the furloughing of thousands of regular employees, they had to let contractors go at the end of May. So, I was off in June and July, then they called me back in in mid-August. A few weeks ago they let me know the job was ending, not because of Covid, but due to internal restructuring.
So in the end, I'll have worked a total of 13 months on this job. That's not too bad, since 18 months is the maximum a big company can keep you on contract in CA without hiring you. (That law was passed some years ago, pretty much because Disney was seen to be abusing the system - keeping people as temps forever, as it were).
I must say, I'm 100% in favor of working at home.