cnn has reported cuts

[BRERALEX]

Just read on cnn dont how true it is that disney has asked employees to take a 20 %
cut in hours and pay since the events on sept 11 has "stifled" tourism."


wow.

 

[helenk]

I just read the same thing on aol, apparently they are quoting an article from the orlando sentinel. I am coping the aol article here:
Disney Asks Workers for Cutbacks
The Associated Press
Oct 23 2001 11:09AM

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Walt Disney World officials asked some of their salaried workers to volunteer for a 20 percent cutback in hours and salary.
The company wants some of the resort's 7,400 full-time salaried employees to scale back their work week to 32 hours, saying it will save some jobs and preserve insurance and retirement benefits for employees, spokeswoman Marilyn Waters said Monday.

Walt Disney World, until recently, had about 55,000 full-and-part-time employees.

Waters said the voluntary work reductions were ``an opportunity'' to employees ``because some people would like to do that for lifestyle reasons.''

``In no way is anybody being pressured to take it,'' Waters said.

Disney also fired an unspecified number of highly paid contract workers in its technology department on Monday and reduced the hours of some attractions, the Orlando Sentinel reported.

Work schedules for about 40,000 hourly employees had been reduced after the Sept. 11 attacks that devastated the tourism industry. About 1,000 salaried Disney World workers in California and Orlando were laid off before Sept. 11.

The offer of voluntary reductions was made only to Orlando-area workers, not to those in California. Orlando's theme park has been hit harder by the drop in tourism because it relies more on visitors who traveled on airplanes.

Other cost-cutting measures were also taken. Some live shows will be eliminated on certain days, including MGM Studios' Beauty and the Beast, and the hours of a handful of attractions at Epcot were reduced.