The number of paid employees in the gaming industry stood at 43,835 in the fourth quarter last year, down 2 percent year-on-year, the latest figures released yesterday from the Statistics and Census Service show. The survey on manpower needs and wages of the gaming industry for the fourth quarter of 2008, which excluded junket promoters and junket associates, shows that analysed by occupations that are directly related to betting services…

The wage freeze Niagara Casinos imposed last year has thawed now that the company has announced a 35 cent an hour raise for all employees at Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort and Casino Niagara. Full-time employees will received a CAD 1,400 bonus to be paid out in May, spokesman Greg Medulun said. For an hourly worker earning CAD 15 an hour, a 35 cent increase represents a 2.3 per cent raise.

The major recruiting effort for Pittsburgh’s Rivers Casino begins in late March with a one-day career fair, where managers in charge of everything from food service to finance will set up booths and talk shop with potential employees. Following that, the company will hold periodic job fairs – a mall booth with pamphlets, for example, to spread awareness of the new employer.

International Game Technology is one of the leading casino gambling machine makers in the world. In the current economy, however, that means nothing if the demand is not there. IGT has announced that they are laying off 200 of their employees. The move comes at a weird time for the casino industry. In the US, casinos are struggling, but there are more being built with every passing month.

Kathmandu – Taking moral responsibility of the October 24 incident at Casino Anna, in which the casino employees retaliated an intended police raid and beaten up a policeman, General Manager of the Casino Anna Ram Krishna Chakradhar, asked the casino workers to call of all protest programmes Sunday afternoon. Talking to the media outside the Metropolitan Police Division in the capital today,

Some employees of Detroit’s three casinos think they can beat the system that’s in place to protect their workplace against cheats and thieves. Juanita Marzette Smith of Oak Park, who worked in one of Greektown Casino’s count rooms, was fired after she picked up USD 480 in cash from her table with a tissue she had just used to blow her nose, stuffing the cash in her pocket.

Greektown Casino today announced 89 employees will be laid off as part of USD 7.8 million in annual cost savings identified by the casino’s managers and financial consultants. Most of the furloughed employees work in table games, and 70 are part-time employees. „Greektown Casino managers, owners and financial consultants are examining every possible way to make the casino a more efficient and profitable business,“ said Greektown Casino CEO Craig Ghelfi in a statement.