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Disney World Freezes Hiring.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2003
By Robert Johnson, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 19--In another sign of the still-soft economy, Central Florida's largest employer, Walt Disney World, has ordered a hiring freeze effective immediately and indefinitely -- or until tourism picks up again.
"It's no secret that the tourism industry is continuing to be affected by September 11 and the recession," said Marilyn Waters, a spokeswoman for the attraction, which employs 54,000 workers.
The freeze affects jobs for permanent workers and is the first such measure taken at Disney World since October 2001. That freeze lasted until the spring of 2002, when Disney World began advertising for entertainers.
No official end to that freeze was...
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