http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/us/in-turnabout-disney-cancels-tech-worker-layoffs.html?_r=0
Apparently Disney was set to play the same ruthless trick on IT employees in New York and California. But the stink they created after firing 250 workers at Disney World and replacing them with cheaper foreign workers was so bad that Disney, at least for now is letting the American workers in NY and California keep their jobs.
We were planning to take my daughter to Disney for the first time this fall.
Not anymore.
PR Spin from Disney
Read further (35 workers on a previous lay off for the same thing were saved). The 250 in the Breitbart article actually happened.
“It came in the midst of a furor over layoffs in January of 250 tech workers at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. People who lost jobs there said they had to sit with immigrants from India, some on temporary work visas known as H-1B, and teach them to perform their jobs as a condition for receiving severance.
But it remained unclear on Tuesday who had initiated the change of strategy at Disney/ABC or whether it was part of a larger change in direction, because Disney executives declined to discuss it.
Disney executives have said the reorganization that led to the Orlando layoffs had resulted in an overall increase of 70 (H1B non American technology jobs and the rehiring of some people (probably under 5 people never mind the other 245) who were laid off. Kim Prunty, a Disney spokeswoman, said outside contractors “are required to comply with all applicable employment laws.”