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.
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.
Per the article: ". . . compensation packages offered to affected employees by the company were inadequate, the lawsuit alleges." Like other large corporations, Disney fears being nibbled to death by lawsuits and prefers as a matter of strategy to pay lawyers but as little in compensation as possible and to make what it does pay hard to get.
Disney's failure to expand its tech workforce in the Orlando area may prove to be a serious error. Florida in general -- and the Orlando area in particular -- are burgeoning with tech talent. Astonishingly, due to the massive and top-rated University of Central Florida, the sleepy small city of my youth is now ranked as the top hub in the world for modeling and simulation.
Moreover, the upscale Lake Nona development southeast of Orlando has an attractive mix of residences, businesses, transportation, shopping and leisure, public amenities, and medical care. That Disney bailed on its plans there suggests it is downsizing not just on immediate costs but on future growth as well.
Walt Disney bet his company more than once based on his imagination and the talent of his employees. Nowadays though, the Mouse is a miserly cheapskate with a taste for the woke and weird. Worse, it may see its future wither as rivals and upstarts prosper with the technical talent that it failed to hire for its now abandoned Orlando tech operation. Accountants can count costs and revenue, but they are notoriously unable to calculate lost opportunities.