Disney World layoffs: 6,700 non-union employees are losing their jobs - Orlando Sentinel

About 6,700 Walt Disney World non-union employees are losing their jobs because of the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, according to an alert the Walt Disney Co.

employees in a business division that includes theme parks, Imagineering and Disney Cruise Line.

On Tuesday, Josh D’Amaro, the chief of Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, disclosed that about 67% of the 28,000 positions are hourly part-time employees, although the cuts were widespread to include full-timers and executives as well.

The cuts come as Disneyland remains closed and attendance is lower at the Walt Disney World parks, which reopened in mid-July during the pandemic.