Posted on 06/20/2024 3:13:22 PM PDT by grundle
According to a lawsuit filed Tuesday against Disney in Los Angeles County Superior Court, numerous workers heeded the company’s calls, dutifully sold their homes in the Los Angeles area and moved to Central Florida.
Plaintiffs Maria De La Cruz and George Fong, both current Disney employees, alleged they were fraudulently induced to relocate to Florida by being led to believe that they would lose their jobs if they turned down the move. De La Cruz and Fong agreed to the relocation in November 2021. The lawsuit said Disney told affected employees they would have 90 days to “consider and make the decision that’s best for them.”
De La Cruz, a vice president of product design, sold her Altadena home in May 2022.
“Mr. Fong also sold his home, which was a particularly painful decision because it was the family home he had grown up in and inherited,” the lawsuit said. Fong is a creative director of product design; his family home was in Los Angeles.
Fong has since bought a home in South Pasadena that has “considerably less square footage than his previous Los Angeles home,” the lawsuit said.
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Should have stayed and taken the 60-day WARN.
They ought to just be glad they’re out of California.
Mr. Fong trusted a leftist. Big mistake.
This is goofy, just goofy
“Mr. Fong trusted a leftist. Big mistake.”
Mr, Fong was affectionately nicknamed “Flounder” by Disney senior management.
The person making the representation has to know at the time of making it that it’s not true, or it’s not fraud. That the company later changed its mind is not actionable. Fails to state a cause of action. I’d say this is just a ploy to leverage some money out of the company.
Disney. It use to be a name worthy of attention. Now it is the sign of something to avoid.
I have watched Disney news channels for years on you tube channels like valiant renegade or clownfish, midnights edge, legal mindset. Disney actually pressed hard on its California employes to make this decision and the evidence is there reported by the YouTube channels that fallow and report on Disney at the time it happened. While not conservative outlets if you are interested in fallowing anything about Disney and the woke crap, they do these YouTube channels are the best for it.
Can’t pull one over on you….. 😅😅😅😅
I have watched Disney YouTube news channels for years.
Channels like valiant renegade, clownfish, midnights edge and legal mindset.
According to these sources Disney actually pressed hard on its California employes to make this decision.
The evidence is there reported by the YouTube channels at the time it happened.
While not conservative outlets if you are interested in fallowing anything about Disney and the woke crap.
these YouTube channels are the best for it.
valiant renegade, clownfish, midnights edge and legal mindset.
About what you would expect from such a Mickey Mouse operation.
I’ve no doubt they pressed them hard, but in law that doesn’t prevent them from changing their minds. Just because one is an a-hole doesn’t necessarily mean one is legally liable
Definitely a Mickey Mouse thing to do to them.
Ya beat me to it!
it really does depend on what was said by corporate higher ups...hard to prove. Anything can be turned into a lawsuit. if there are any promises or threat in writing directed at employees it will come down to interpretation of laws...this is why anyone in any position of authority in corporations need to be careful. any lawyers here who wants to educate us the unanointed when it comes to employe and corporate law.
Remember what I said. It has to be false at the outset. No apologist for Disney here, but with what little I know, I’ll bet it’s true that they really intend to make the development, but then made a business decision not to
At least one of them moved back to CA.
If he inherited the home I presume it was completely or nearly completely paid off. Should have kept it especially with the low property tax basis. Rented it out maybe.
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