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A lawsuit claiming Disneyland employees do not earn a living wage can move forward following an Orange County Superior Court decision to certify it as a class action.
The lawsuit filed in 2019 on behalf of five resort workers alleges the Walt Disney Co. violated Measure L, which requires Anaheim resort businesses that receive tax subsidies and their subcontractors to pay employees a living wage. At the time, that was $15 an hour, and now it’s $17. Unite Here Local 11 and other unions representing Disneyland employees backed the measure.
It took a year and a half for the judge to allow the case to proceed as a class action. Many of the workers are employed directly by Disney. Others work for contractors like Sodexo and SodexoMagic, which operate restaurants and coffee shops in the resort.