Posted on 01/23/2018 12:32:24 PM PST by TigerClaws
Chief executive officer and chairman of The Walt Disney Company Bob Iger and Mickey Mouse look on before ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), November 27, 2017 in New York City. Disney giving 125,000 employees $1,000 cash bonuses 1 Hour Ago | 00:44 Disney announced Tuesday it will pay over 125,000 employees a one-time cash bonus of $1,000, as well as make a new $50 million investment into education program for employees.
"We are directing approximately $125 million to our cast members and employees across the country and making higher education more accessible with the launch of this new program," CEO Bob Iger said in a statement.
Some of the biggest companies in the United States have been giving out bonuses to employees, often citing the recently-passed tax bill as the motive. Boeing, AT&T, Wells Fargo, Comcast, Bank of America and Walmart are just a few of those distributing new tax benefits to workers.
The bonus applies any full-time and part-time employees who have been working for Disney since before January 1. Those eligible will receive the bonus in two parts, with one in March and the other in September. Executive level employees are exempt.
Disney's education initiative will be available to nearly 88,000 hourly employees in the U.S.
"Participants can pursue qualifying higher education or vocational training, including courses unrelated to their current responsibilities at Disney," the company said in a statement.
It will not affect Disney's ongoing education reimbursement program, the company noted, which will continue to be open to all full-time employees.
Disney says the two initiatives will cost $175 million in the current fiscal year.
Disney is alsoset to buy many parts of Twenty-First Century Fox for $52.4 billion in stock. The company will get Fox's movie studios, networks Nat Geo and FX, Asian pay-TV operator Star TV, and stakes in Sky, Endemol Shine Group and Hulu, as well as regional sports networks.
Disclosure: Comcast is the owner of NBCUniversal, the parent company of CNBC and CNBC.com.
I thought Disney was a part of the #Resistance.
Jeez, what a Mickey Mouse bonus.
$125 million dollar Disney dump.
Nice...
Trump is reversing that from loving the dems to loving the reps.
It just gets better and better!!
Q-uite nice.
Trump’s fault
California will want the Disneyland folks to give half to the state.
Pelosi: CRUMBS!.................................
Wasn’t Disney one of the companies that forced it’s employees to train their replacements in the H1B Visa kerfuffle?
Bambi CRUMBS!
Crumbs. Crumbs I tell you...
Or make a $1,000 contribution to the DNC.
Remember when Obama said Trump can’t wave a “magic wand” to bring back American jobs?
Pede-ridge Farms Remembers!
Bada bing.
The state legislature is already trying to get it...................
Maybe now Disney will redo the Trump robot in the Hall of Presidents, so it doesn’t look so much like Hillary.
“Bippity——boppity-—BOnus...”
I had forgotten that HR effort to support Americans.
I’m not getting tired of all this winning.
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