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Disney’s Abandoned $1B Florida Relocation Plan Breeds Employee Class-Action Suit In Fallout From DeSantis Dust-Up


Over a year after the Mouse House pulled the plug on a big migration of staffers to the Sunshine State, some of those staffers are pretty angry

What the filing from San Francisco attorneys Jason S. Lohr and Roberto G. Ripamonti itself does express is a process of hurry up & wait that saw the likes of Fong selling their childhood home in the Golden State to move to Florida for a corporate promise of “brand-new state-of-the-art campus” that never came true. And, as had happened when the move to Florida was announced in 2021, there was once again the fear that people could lose their jobs if they didn’t shuffle back to the West Coast in a timely fashion. “On or around May 18, 2023, Disney communicated to Plaintiffs and other similarly situated individuals that they had until the end of 2023 to decide whether or not to remain in Florida,” the potential class action asserts.

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