Disney Pays Massive Sum to Settle Lawsuit Accusing Company of Paying Women Less than Men

Walt Disney reached an agreement to pay $43.3 million to resolve a lawsuit claiming its California female employees earned $150 million less than their male colleagues over an eight-year period, the plaintiffs’ attorneys confirmed on Monday.

A motion has been filed to seek approval of the settlement, which would cover a broad range of salaried Disney employees in California, Variety reports.

If the petition is granted, thousands of women who have worked for Disney since April 1, 2015, will receive checks to compensate for the wage disparity.

How were they able to identify the women? I would have argued that the men are actually women but don’t know it yet. Respect their gender!

The team of male attorneys took their 149.99 million dollars, and each of the mistreated female employees received $10.82 each. But at least it’s non-taxable. /s

I’ll be surprised if the lawyers didn’t take all $150 million, and the women got discount coupons for ten movie screenings and some merch.

Usually there's a reason behind the pay disparity. It may be as simple as that male employees possess higher value skills such as Engineers or IT. While female employees are secretaries or HR employees.

Time for Disney to create more DEI positions to address the pay disparity.

9 posted on 11/26/2024 9:25:43 AM PST by Fledermaus (The election is over! We won big! So why are so many here nick picking, moaning, and whining? )

That isn't the way it works. People who do the same job with equivalent capability and equivalent experience are supposed to receive equivalent pay. I don't think that the plaintiffs anticipated a huge settlement. They probably wanted to illustrate a point.

AFK. BBL

Male chauvinism at Disney goes way back. Disney made lots of Mickey Mouse cartoons. Did he ever make a single one with Minnie Mouse as the protagonist? Not to mention the Mickey Mouse Club. (At least they did let girls be members of that. But I think the summer camp Spin and Marty went to was restricted to boys.)

Full time vs part time
Seasonal vs year round
Skilled tradesman vs janitorial vs clerical
10 year longevity vs newly hired DEI hire

This whole 77% of what men make is all rubbish. Otherwise, only women would be employed.

Have you seen some of those peculiar characters? If, a a child, I saw some big, bearded dude in a dress in an amusement park, I would have run the other way.

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