Information For Class Members Re: Settlement Payments
If you are a Settlement Class Member,* please be advised of the following information regarding your Settlement Payment:
- The judgment and court’s order approving the class action settlement became final on November 17, 2025, the “Effective Date” of the Settlement Agreement. Thereafter, the Settlement Administrator began processing settlement payouts.
- Your Settlement Payment will be made available as follows:
- Email address available: The Settlement Administrator will send out a personalized digital payment link to all Class Members with email addresses on file on a rolling basis, beginning the week of November 24, 2025. All payment options available to you will be accessible through your personal link at that time. The email will come from the following sender: redeem@payouts.disneylivingwagecase.com.
- If you choose the payment by paper check option, it may take two to four weeks to process the request and receive the physical check by U.S. Mail.
- If you do not select a payment option, you will receive your Settlement Payment via a physical check by U.S. Mail.
- If you have an email address on file but have not received your personal payment link by Tuesday, December 16, 2025, please contact the Settlement Administrator at 1-877-354-3897 or info@disneylivingwagecase.com.
- No email address available: If you do not have an email address on file, you will receive your Settlement Payment via a physical check by U.S. Mail. Checks will be mailed on a rolling basis, beginning the week of November 24, 2025.
*Only members of the Settlement Class will receive a settlement payment. A Notice of Class Action Settlement was mailed to all members of the Settlement Class on or about May 20, 2025. The “Settlement Class” means “All nonexempt current and former individuals employed by Disney in Disney theme parks and hotels in Anaheim, California, on or after January 1, 2019, who reside in California, and who were not paid hourly wages or service charges of at least the amounts required by Title 6, Chapter 6.99 of the Anaheim Municipal Code at any time from January 1, 2019, to March 25, 2025.”
The information on this website is only a summary of the terms of the Settlement.
If you have worked for The Walt Disney Company or Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S., Inc. at Disney theme parks and hotels in Anaheim, California, at any time from January 1, 2019, to the present, your rights may be affected by a class action lawsuit.
Class Members were sent an individual notice via mail and/or email on May 20, 2025, that explained each class member’s options and detailed the amount each class member could expect to receive.
This case involves claims that Defendants The Walt Disney Company and Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S., Inc., failed to pay hourly workers the minimum hourly rate and service charge required by the Anaheim Living Wage Ordinance (“LWO”), Anaheim Municipal Code, Chapter 6.99, since January 1, 2019. The Court has now held that Disney is subject to the LWO.
The LWO requires certain Anaheim employers to pay their employees at least $15/hour from January 1, 2019, to December 31, 2019; at least $16/hour from January 1, 2020, to December 31, 2020; at least $17/hour from January 1, 2021, to December 31, 2021; at least $18/hour from January 1, 2022, to December 31, 2022; at least $19.40/hour from January 1, 2023, to December 31, 2023; at least $19.90/hour from January 1, 2024, to December 31, 2024; and at least $20.42/hour from January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2025.
Plaintiffs allege that Defendants The Walt Disney Company and Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S., Inc., were required to pay all of their nonexempt employees in Anaheim at least the minimum hourly rate prescribed by the LWO. Plaintiffs allege that since January 1, 2019, Disney failed to pay some of their employees at least the hourly rate required by the LWO. Plaintiffs also allege that Disney failed to pay some of their employees the full amount of service charges owed as required by the LWO. In addition, Plaintiffs allege that, as a result of the alleged failure to pay some employees at least the hourly rate provided by the LWO, Disney also failed to pay some former employees all wages owed upon the end of their employment, in violation of California Labor Code § 203; failed to pay overtime wages in violation of California Labor Code §§ 510, 1194 and 1198; engaged in unfair business practices in violation of California Business & Professions Code § 17200 et seq.; are liable for wage statement penalties under Labor Code § 226; and are liable for civil penalties under California’s Private Attorneys General Act, Labor Code § 2698 et seq.
This Settlement is not an admission of any wrongdoing, liability, or legal violation by Disney; rather, it was entered into by both Parties in order to avoid the continued costs and risks of litigation.
If you were employed by Sodexo, Inc. and SodexoMagic, LLC and or possibly affected by the Sodexo Settlement, information is available here: Settlement Webpage.