Disney is set to lay off around 28,000 employees in the United States after prolonged closures and limited attendance have decimated its theme park business. Around 67 seven percent of the 28,000 layoffs were part-time workers, but they ranged from salaried employees to nonunion hourly workers, Disney officials said. Prior to the pandemic, Disney's California and Florida parks employed roughly 110,000 people. Officials with the Service Trades Council Union, which represents 43,000 workers at Disney World in Florida, said they were having similar conversations. 'We will make determinations in real time — for theme parks, amusement parks and the like,' Newsom said on September 8.

Source: Daily Mail September 29, 2020 21:05 UTC