PThese days, it is better to be Donald or Dumbo at Disneyland Paris than at Disneyworld Orlando. Yet the cruelty of the health crisis is the same everywhere. Closed, like its American cousins in March 2020, the Parisian park reopened for the summer, before closing again on October 29. Reopening only planned in February 2021. Same punishment for American parks.
With the difference that the historic Disneyland, that of California, near Hollywood, remains closed, by order of the local authorities, while that of Florida still receives a meager audience. In any case, the results are disastrous, with attendance down more than 80% and therefore a net loss of $ 7 billion for this single Disney flagship activity which normally represents nearly half of its profits. and three quarters of its employees.
Social responsibility
Quickly, the management of the company placed most of its employees on short-time working. But in Orlando, this term does not have the same meaning as in Paris. It corresponds to compensation of 275 dollars per week limited to less than three months, when in France, the same measure provides 85% of the salary (100% at the level of the minimum wage) without time limit. And as that was not enough, the company announced on November 26 that it would cut 32,000 jobs, or 4,000 more than announced in September.
The next day, the management of Disneyland Paris, which employs 17,000 people, announced the opening of negotiations with the unions on the departure of 1,000 people on a voluntary basis. And again, it concerns a reorganization plan that dates from before the Covid, with in particular the stopping of fashionable shows. “There is no question of social plan”, says Djamila Ouaz, CFDT delegate to AFP.
The company is known to give the highest salaries to its executives, $ 47 million in 2019 for CEO Bob Iger
We therefore remain far from the American bloodbath. The latter had already unleashed passions during the presidential campaign, the Democrat and ex-candidate Bernie Sanders castigating the greed of the directors of Disney. The company is known to give the highest salaries to its executives, $ 47 million in 2019 for CEO Bob Iger. Even Roy Disney’s granddaughter, Walt’s brother, took offense on Twitter.
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