Abigail Disney slammed Walt Disney executives over furloughs, saying that $1.5 billion — which is the estimated cost of Disney's prior semi-annual dividends — would 'pay for three months' salary to front line workers.'
While the studio's top executives have made salary sacrifices amid the COVID-19 crisis, with executive chairman Bob Iger giving up the remainder of his $3 million salary for 2020 and new CEO Bob Chapek set to forgo half his $2.5 million base salary, Abigail Disney said that salary was a "drop in the bucket to these guys," claiming that the "real payday is in the rest of the package.
Disney referenced a quote by Chapek, who said, "Our ability to do good in the world starts with our cast members, who create magic every day. Our commitment to them will always be our top priority." "If even a whiff of this is sincere, none of this compensation bullshit is possible," she said. "This company must do better. Disney faces a rough couple of years, to be sure. The challenges are existential, even. But that does not constitute permission to continue pillaging and rampaging by management."The latest comments are the first time Abigail Disney has attacked the pay structure at Disney after last year describing Iger's $65.
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