Disney Settles Multi-Million Pay Equity Class Action As 2025 Trial Nears
deadline.comJust over six months before the Walt Disney company was scheduled to go to trial in a potentially $300 million pay equity class action, the parties have come to a deal.
As always in these things, details are confidential with a Motion for Preliminary Approval expected to be filed by the plaintiff’s attorneys before November 18.
If all goes to plan, the settlement will be addressed and approved in an October 1, 2025 hearing in LA Superior Court before Judge Elihu M.
Berle. A dead letter office now, a May 5, 2025 trial was put on the court calendar back in June. Initiated by Disney staffers LaRonda Rasmussen and Karen Moore in April 2019, the suit alleged that the then and now Bob Iger-run company knowingly violated the Fair Employment & Housing Act and California’s Equal Pay Act by paying female employees less than male employees.
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