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.

Director of the Human Resources Office, Vong Chi Hong, said the 43 imported casino pit supervisors who got their work duration extended late 2008 will only be working in Macau until June 30 this year at the latest. In response to lawmaker Ng Kuok Cheong's interpellation on the foreign labour policy, Vong stressed that the office had been "closely" complying with the relevant regulations and "strictly" approving non-local workers applications to supplement Macau's human resources.

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 - Tropicana Casino and Resort will freeze the pay of top-earning employees and may lay off more than 100 dealers in a series of belt-tightening measures at the troubled gaming hall. Employees making at least USD 50,000 will not receive a pay increase this year, while lower-earning workers will see their raises capped at a maximum of 2 percent, Tropicana President Mark Giannantonio said.

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.

New York (AP) - Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd. said Wednesday that it will start offering some monthly unpaid leave and an optional voluntary sabbatical leave to its Crown Macau workers. The company, which develops and owns casino resorts in the Chinese gambling enclave of Macau, said the moves were made with employee consent as it tries to deal with current economic conditions while simultaneously providing some job security.

A group of workers of the 18 casinos closed by the Quito City Council demanded an audience with President Rafael Correa last week. The operation was performed Saturday 15th. Workers concentrated in the surroundings of the Ministry of the Coast. There, the employees of the firm Invermun SA protested for the closure of gambling venues and the loss of their jobs. According to the company, in the 18 casinos closed there are 2,000 people working, plus other 5,000 that have indirect jobs.

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, New Jersey (AP) -- With the economy crumbling and revenues plunging, Atlantic City is considering delaying the start of a total smoking ban at its 11 casinos. The ban, which was approved in April after a year-and-a-half battle between casino workers and gambling hall operators, is set to take effect Oct. 15. But even before it was approved, casino owners said they feared the ban would cost the industry millions of dollars in lost revenue and lead to job losses.