Due to ACA, Disney World Will Promote Its Part-Time Workers To Full-Time Status

[wdisney9000]

Are any Disney employees represented by a union? Im sure they will have something to say about this.

 

[jaklgreen]

Call my cynical, but I doubt that Disney is doing this out of the goodness of their corporate heart. What benefit does Disney get from this?

Ok, it used to be cheaper to hire a bunch of part timers so they did not have to pay for insurance for them. Now since you have to provide(or pay the penalty) then is it cheaper to have all the folks getting the insurance to work the full 40 hours. So now you have 1 person working 40 hours and getting insurance instead of 2 people working 20 hours each getting insurance. This is a no brainer.

 

[Dasnowz]

yes there are unions... many many unions.... and there are approx. 24000 part timers who are not getting full time but hours cut because the cap is 24 hours over a 7 month time frame

 

[Pixie VaVoom]

He's an idiot if he actually tries to. All his opponents will have to do is reveal that he tried to sell Disneyland and he's toast.

From Pixie VaVoom - Iger tried to SELL DisneyLand !?! What is the scoop on THAT??? I haven't been following for very long... So I haven't heard any of this....

"putter, putter, putter, putter, putter, putter,putter, putter," That is the sound of Walt Disney in his GRAVE - spinning like a cuisinart !!!

 

[Captain Neo]

Rhetoric. He shopped the idea around. If you don't want to call that "trying to sell" that's fine, but don't ignore that there was progressive activity in that direction.

You have a link or some proof?

 

[Captain Neo]

Because the term Obamacare is politically charged.

Well that's what most people are calling it including President Obama himself.

 

[JimboJones123]

You have a link or some proof?

Oh, he was courting eastern and western Asians for fun?

Sorry, I'm not doing homework for you.

 

[Captain Neo]

Oh, he was courting eastern and western Asians for fun?

Sorry, I'm not doing homework for you.

Your the one making up nonsense so it's your job to back it up.

That's like saying "Walt Disney was a child molester" and then when someone asks for proof you go "im not doing your homework for you. You figure it out!"

Doesn't work that way bucko

 

[Pinkerton]

Am I missing something here but aren't most companies decreasing hours as opposed to increasing them? Good for Disney!!

 

[WDW1974]

Yes, Americans are largely stupid. I think that's all the energy I feel like devoting when the post is going to disappear into the ether.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Your the one making up nonsense so it's your job to back it up.

That's like saying "Walt Disney was a child molester" and then when someone asks for proof you go "im not doing your homework for you. You figure it out!"

Doesn't work that way bucko

No, it just means you were not paying attention when it was being discussed. We hardly speak with citations and references.

 

[slappy magoo]

Originally my feelings were hurt that people flocked to this thread and not mine. But since more than half of the replies were about how this thread is going to get locked, and many of the others are about nomenclature, maybe I dodged a bullet

 

[Magenta Panther]

Your the one making up nonsense so it's your job to back it up.

That's like saying "Walt Disney was a child molester" and then when someone asks for proof you go "im not doing your homework for you. You figure it out!"

Doesn't work that way bucko

As I recall, knowledgeable people here on this site asserted that Iger did indeed try to sell, not only Disneyland, but ALL of the parks, except for Tokyo's park because it is owned by OLC. He didn't get any takers. Lucky for him, because if he'd succeeded, he'd be picking tar and feathers out of his hair for the rest of his life.

 

[raven]

427 part time workers to transfer to fulltime. Yet for the past 10 years, Disney has split hundreds of fulltime possitions into two part time possitions when they had spots open, people retire or need to create extra roles (try and get fulltime in Photopass and you'll know what I mean). So this news is simply to make themselves look good when all they've been doing otherwise is cutting fulltime spots so they won't have to provide people with insurance. And all of those extra part time roles have created havoc in the cast parking lots (at MK they had to add a whole new addition just to accomodate them).

Call me bitter, but it's a shame on how much money they squeeze out of each and every guest yet fail to provide a basic living wage to thousands of people who made them who they are.

 

[Magenta Panther]

427 part time workers to transfer to fulltime. Yet for the past 10 years, Disney has split hundreds of fulltime possitions into two part time possitions when they had spots open, people retire or need to create extra roles (try and get fulltime in Photopass and you'll know what I mean). So this news is simply to make themselves look good when all they've been doing otherwise is cutting fulltime spots so they won't have to provide people with insurance. And all of those extra part time roles have created havoc in the cast parking lots (at MK they had to add a whole new addition just to accomodate them).

Call me bitter, but it's a shame on how much money they squeeze out of each and every guest yet fail to provide a basic living wage to thousands of people who made them who they are.

I completely agree. The CMs are invaluable to a memorable Disney park visit. And it's NOT a job anyone can do, or at least, do well. A basic living wage is the least they deserve.

 

[Captain Neo]

427 part time workers to transfer to fulltime. Yet for the past 10 years, Disney has split hundreds of fulltime possitions into two part time possitions when they had spots open, people retire or need to create extra roles (try and get fulltime in Photopass and you'll know what I mean). So this news is simply to make themselves look good when all they've been doing otherwise is cutting fulltime spots so they won't have to provide people with insurance. And all of those extra part time roles have created havoc in the cast parking lots (at MK they had to add a whole new addition just to accomodate them).

Call me bitter, but it's a shame on how much money they squeeze out of each and every guest yet fail to provide a basic living wage to thousands of people who made them who they are.

Maybe Disney is seeing the error in their ways and trying to make a change?

 

[SirLink]

Maybe Disney is seeing the error in their ways and trying to make a change?

Haaaaaha, na they only way they change is when they have been 150% embarrassed - like the deaths and the related comments that came up about Disneyland.

 

[NoChesterHester]

427 part time workers to transfer to fulltime. Yet for the past 10 years, Disney has split hundreds of fulltime possitions into two part time possitions when they had spots open, people retire or need to create extra roles (try and get fulltime in Photopass and you'll know what I mean). So this news is simply to make themselves look good when all they've been doing otherwise is cutting fulltime spots so they won't have to provide people with insurance. And all of those extra part time roles have created havoc in the cast parking lots (at MK they had to add a whole new addition just to accomodate them).

Call me bitter, but it's a shame on how much money they squeeze out of each and every guest yet fail to provide a basic living wage to thousands of people who made them who they are.

Wow... where have you been?

 

[luv]

I know more than a handful of Disney employees who have complained a lot that Disney has been cracking down on making sure people keep to like 20-25 hours/week. They're people who don't all know each other and they have different political ideals.

They aren't talking about the political implications. They're just talking about their jobs and hours.

I do not believe that Disney is doing what this article seems to imply they're doing.

 

[Pixie VaVoom]

As I recall, knowledgeable people here on this site asserted that Iger did indeed try to sell, not only Disneyland, but ALL of the parks, except for Tokyo's park because it is owned by OLC. He didn't get any takers. Lucky for him, because if he'd succeeded, he'd be picking tar and feathers out of his hair for the rest of his life.

"hair" I think I would personally aim a little lower...