Disney CEO Bob Chapek Promises COVID-19 Furlough Employees Will Be “Back To Work” Eventually
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deadline.comBy Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic Facing the crushing consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, the Walt Disney Company couldn’t sugarcoat the decline bottom line in its second-quarter earnings today, but newly minted CEO Bob Chapek asked the company to tough it out.
Noting the “very difficult decision” last month to furlough tens of thousands of workers with cinemas closed and theme parks locked, Chapek said Tuesday that he and the House of Mouse “are fully committed to getting our employees back to work.” When that return to work will occur, Chapek would not say being that the coronavirus situation is still quite fluid and stay-at-home orders in effect in hard hit states like California and New York. “It was not an easy
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