Less than two months after the layoffs of 570 employees at the Golden Moon Hotel and Casino, Pearl River Resort has laid off at least 63 more. The most recent layoffs included employees of both the Golden Moon and the Silver Star Hotel and Casino. The layoffs included all levels of employees, not just hourly workers. „We’re in a depression, so we have to do what we have to do,“ said Warren Strain, a Pearl River Resort spokesperson.

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.

Atlantic City, New Jersey (AP) — Juan Jimenez’s job at the casino wasn’t the most glamorous one in the place. But picking up cigarette butts, vacuuming dirt from carpets and shampooing stains from spilled drinks (and other, much worse substances) allowed him to bring his family from the Dominican Republic, buy a small house and claim a tiny slice of the American Dream. In October, his luck ran out.

St. Louis (AP) — Ameristar Casinos Inc. is laying off workers at its St. Charles and Kansas City casinos as part of a national reduction in work force. Rebecca Theim from Ameristar’s corporate office in Las Vegas said workers were notified Friday. She said Ameristar tried various measures to avoid layoffs, but they weren’t enough in the worsening economy. Ameristar’s casino and hotel in St. Charles will lose 6 percent of its staff.

Gala Coral is streamlining its operations ahead of the likely impact of the economic downturn on casino, bingo and betting revenues, and has told staff that up to 200 jobs may be affected. Its five divisions will be pared back to three, with bingo and casino merging and Coral betting shops being bracketed with its Eurobet equivalents in Italy. Dominic Harrison, who replaced Neil Goulden as chief executive in September, said that while trading was satisfactory…

Macau struggling casino operator Las Vegas Sands Corp. will lay off as many as 11,000 workers after a cash crunch forced the company to halt construction on multibillion dollar projects in the Chinese gambling city, a top executive said this week. About 2,000 of the construction workers are from Macau, and the remainder are from Hong Kong, mainland China and other countries, said Stephen Weaver, Sands’ president for Asia.

The Morongo Resort Casino & Spa has laid off 95 people, making it the latest Indian casino in the region to scale back in the face of the growing economic downturn, the tribe announced Tuesday. All of the employees are dealers or table-game operators and represent 5 percent of the casino’s work force. The casino, which sits along Interstate 10 near Cabazon, closed 28 table games months ago.

Atlantic City’s most profitable gambling palace, the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, confirmed today that it laid off about 400 of its staff this week. The 5.5 percent cut in its workforce of about 7,600 was unavoidable in the deteriorating economy, said Rob Stillwell, a spokesman for Las Vegas-based Boyd Gaming Corp., which co-owns the Borgata with MGM Mirage. The Borgata layoffs follow Harrah’s Entertainment Inc.’s announcement Friday that it was cutting hundreds of employees at its four Atlantic City casinos…

Atlantic City – Blaming the weak economy and competition from casinos in surrounding states, Atlantic City’s biggest gaming operator says it has begun cutting the work force at its four properties. Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. declined to disclose how many layoffs it has made at Harrah’s Resort, Bally’s Atlantic City, Caesars Atlantic City and Showboat Casino Hotel. Employment figures compiled by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission indicate hundreds of job cuts at Bally’s and Caesars.

Biloxi – Beau Rivage Casino announced layoffs this week of an undisclosed number of employees, primarily assistant managers and managers. „In light of the current economic environment that we are all currently experiencing, Beau Rivage has had to make tough decisions, not unlike other companies,“ Beau Rivage President George Corchis said. „We continuously evaluate our business and make appropriate efficiencies when needed.“

Harrah’s Entertainment confirmed it is preparing another round of layoffs and hourly reductions at its Las Vegas properties. Company officials late Thursday declined to say how many workers will be let go. They said the company will work closely with all employees who will be affected. „The country is experiencing a historically difficult economic period,“ said Jan Jones, senior vice president of communications and government relations for Harrah’s.

MGM Grand Detroit, the top earner of Detroit’s three casinos, is laying off less than 100 workers for the second time this year, officials said. The layoffs coincide with MGM‘s one-year anniversary of moving to its new USD 800 million hotel and casino entertainment complex last October. All affected are hourly workers in food and beverage — meaning those who work in restaurants and bars.