Disney Offers $1,000 Signing Bonuses, Nine Months After Layoffs

  • Payment is available to new employees at Walt Disney World
  • Theme-park giant is latest to offer money to attract recruits

Photographer: Olga Thompson/Walt Disney Resort/Getty Images

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Walt Disney Co. is offering $1,000 bonuses to recruit new housekeepers and select kitchen staff at its Florida theme parks, just months after laying off some 32,000 employees.

Housekeepers, making $16 an hour, and line cooks, earning $18, can receive the money if they stay on the job for at least 90 days, according to the company’s website.