Disneyland workers plan on appealing an Orange County Superior Court judge’s new decision this week that ruled the company didn’t fall under an Anaheim law requiring higher minimum pay for workers.
The workers’ lawsuit ran nearly two years since it was filed in late 2019, alleging that Disneyland had failed to follow a new minimum wage law approved by the voters in 2018 that required any businesses receiving a city subsidy to pay workers $17 an hour, with annual $1 increases.
Randy Renick, the attorney representing the Disney employees who launched the class action, said they’re already planning on appealing the judge’s ruling.
“We think the judge’s ruling is wholly inconsistent with the intent of the voters. The voters were clear that when a corporation takes a public benefit such as Disney did here for more than $300 million they should pay their employees a living wage,” he said in a Friday morning phone interview.
The current state minimum wage is $14 per hour, and Disney pays its employees at a minimum rate of $15 an hour.
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While Disney doesn’t explicitly receive a subsidy from the city, a set of 1997 city-issued bonds worth $510 million altogether paid for by Anaheim taxpayers helped cover a new parking structure and build new infrastructure improvements at California Adventure along with other projects throughout the city.
The Walt Disney Company did not return requests for comment on Friday morning.
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