EmploymentLansing Casino
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Who gets the jobs, if they come? (2/21/2012)
(Michigan) -- James Nye, a spokesman representing two tribes that oppose Lansing’s casino plan, is suggesting most of the 2,200 jobs — with a Lansing-area...
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Illinois Gaming
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CASINOS: Expansion not in public interest (2/19/2012)
(Illinois) -- The effect of the new Rivers Casino, in Des Plaines, Ill., has become exhibit No. 1 against any expansion of gaming in Illinois or Indiana.
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Enterprise Rancheria
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Tribe warns of casino layoffs (2/17/2012)
(California) -- The tribe that owns the Colusa Casino estimates its gaming operation could lose up to 60 percent of its business if a new casino is allowed to be...
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Mining & Drilling
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Where the jobs aren't: Pinal copper mine land deal to create 3,000-plus jobs on hold (2/17/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- The hearing officially concerned the Department of Interior’s proposed 2013 budget, but most lawmakers instead took turns Wednesday drilling...
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Ohio Gaming
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Kent course offers chance to hit casino career jackpot (2/14/2012)
(Ohio) -- For gambling fans, new casinos in Ohio mean a shot at big winnings. But for many, it means a shot at the job of their dreams. Kent State now offers courses in...
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Hollywood Casino Adding Over 100 Jobs (1/30/2012)
(Pennsylvania) -- A packed house at the Hollywood Casino today. People lined up in the hallways of the casino in East Hanover Township for a job fair. The casino is...
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Smokers need not apply to Columbus, Toledo casinos (1/27/2012)
(Ohio) -- Smokers won't be hired at new casinos in Columbus and Toledo, a ban that's been adopted in other industries as employers try to hold down health care...
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Three colleges will train casino workers (1/26/2012)
(Ohio) -- The planned Columbus casino will train about 1,200 of its employees through a partnership with three central Ohio colleges.
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Interest in casino jobs grows (1/25/2012)
(Ohio) -- Interest is growing in the 1,700 permanent jobs the Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati promises to create, even as construction continues on the project at Broadway...
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30,000 applicants applied for Hollywood Casino openings (1/23/2012)
(Ohio) -- Officials from Hollywood Casino Toledo said they will not have many positions left to fill after they hosted their third and final job fair Monday with lines...
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Casino to host 3 January job fairs (1/11/2012)
(Ohio) -- Hollywood Casino Toledo, expected to be open in the spring, will host three job fairs before the end of January.
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Casino is cruising / Construction on track for fall opening; hiring process for 2,000 jobs will begin next spring (12/25/2011)
(Ohio) -- The outer shell of the Holly-wood Casino Columbus is taking shape, with construction workers on track to finish the project by next fall. Ameet Patel, the...
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Hollywood Casino Toledo posts 600 employment positions online (12/13/2011)
(Ohio) -- More than 600 employment positions for Hollywood Casino Toledo have been posted on the casino's website this week. Individuals interested in applying for...
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650 Clevelanders begin casino dealer training school at Thistledown (12/8/2011)
(Ohio) -- The horses weren't racing Thursday but by 11 a.m. the parking lot at the Thistledown race track was jammed with cars. Inside, 175 eager recruits were about...
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Hollywood Casino held vendor fair Thursday (12/8/2011)
(Ohio) -- The Hollywood Casino Toledo is just months from opening along the Maumee River and Thursday afternoon the casino looked for suppliers.
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Ohio's first casino opening in March starts 12-week training session for prospective dealers (12/8/2011)
(Ohio) -- Ohio's first casino, which opens in March in Cleveland, has begun training dealers. Horseshoe Casino Cleveland says the 12-week training session for 600...
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Training begins for more than 600 Horseshoe Casino Cleveland dealers (12/8/2011)
(Ohio) -- The upper concourse of Thistledown Race Track has been transformed into a classroom of sorts. One in which more than 600 students will spend four hours a day,...
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Maine Gaming
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Oxford Casino criticised for looking for out of state workers (2/7/2012)
(Maine) -- A casino scheduled to open later this year in western Maine is coming under fire for going out of state in its search for workers.
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Hollywood Slots holding workshop to fill jobs (12/16/2011)
(Maine) -- Many people were over at Eastern Maine Community College on Friday looking to qualify for more than 80 new jobs that are expected to come to Hollywood Slots...
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Maine casino holds job fair for jobs that open up with arrival of table games (12/15/2011)
(Maine) -- Maine's Hollywood Slots casino is looking for a few good blackjack dealers. The Bangor casino is holding a job fair on Friday and Saturday inviting people...
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Are Biddeford racino jobs for real? (10/19/2011)
(Maine) -- Those hoping voters will approve Question 2 to allow racinos in Biddeford and in Washington County are basing their campaign around a promise of jobs. They...
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Massachusetts Gaming
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Oxford Casino Under Fire for Hiring Out of State (2/7/2012)
(Maine) -- The Oxford Casino has posted openings on casinocareers.com, and anti-gambling advocates say it's evidence that their concerns about casino jobs going...
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Betting On Casino Careers (12/18/2011)
(Massachusetts) -- Just two years ago, when Andrew Pellegrini, a 22-year-old Worcester native, entered Quinsigamond Community College with a 1.2 grade-point average, he...
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Labor & Unions
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ACH casino asks union for pay cuts, other concessions in contract talks (1/29/2012)
(Atlantic City) -- ACH casino is asking union workers to accept pay cuts and other concessions that management considers crucial for saving the Atlantic City gaming hall.
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Union to vote on 3-year contract with four casinos today (11/1/2011)
(Atlantic City) -- Beverage servers, room cleaners and other service workers will vote Tuesday on whether to approve a new contract with four Atlantic City casinos.
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Casinos to detail deal to workers (10/21/2011)
(Detroit) -- Detroit casino workers should get details of the tentative deal reached by five unions and the three gaming halls starting possibly as early as Saturday.
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Casino in pay dispute with workers (10/21/2011)
(Australia) -- JUPITERS Hotel and Casino is embroiled in a pay dispute with workers, who say they wil consider industrial action if the Gold Coast entertainment giant...
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Casino worker talks given 24-hour extension to settle contract (10/18/2011)
(Detroit) -- Union leaders apparently agreed to another 24-hour extension of a deadline to settle contract negotiations for thousands of Detroit casino workers who...
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Detroit casino union talks get 1-day extension (10/18/2011)
(Detroit) -- Unions for thousands of Detroit casino workers angry that the companies want them to pay more for health care when the local gambling market has performed...
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Public Smoking
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Will Smokers Be Turned Down For Casino Jobs? (1/26/2012)
(Ohio) -- All bets are off for smokers hoping to land a job with the new Ohio casinos in Columbus and Toledo, but that won't be the case in Cincinnati.
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Enbridge Pipeline
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Aboriginal group wants preferential hiring if Gateway pipeline approved (1/24/2012)
(Edmonton) -- The lead community-industry liaison for the Enoch Cree First Nation finds herself in a bit of a “bind” when it comes to the controversial...
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Maryland Gaming
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Arundel Mills casino opens employment center (1/16/2012)
(Maryland) -- Dozens of job-seekers lined up this morning in the cold as the Maryland Live! Casino opened an employment center to help fill more than 1,500 positions at...
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Maryland casino employment center opening to public, looking to fill more than 1,500 positions (1/16/2012)
(Maryland) -- The Maryland Live! Casino says it is opening an employment center to help fill more than 1,500 positions at its new Anne Arundel County slots parlor.
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Maryland Live Casino to open employment center in Hanover (1/11/2012)
(Maryland) -- Developers of the Maryland Live Casino near Arundel Mills mall are opening an employment center next week to help with recruitment efforts.
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Maryland Live! Casino opening employment center (1/11/2012)
(Maryland) -- The half-billion dollar casino going up in Arundel Mills is launching an employment center on Monday, Jan. 16th. The center at 7270 Park Circle Drive in...
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Maryland Live! Casino seeks to hire 1,500 by April (12/8/2011)
(Maryland) -- The developers of a $500 million casino at Arundel Mills Mall in Hanover say they are accepting job applications. Robert Norton, president and general...
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Ho-Chunk Nation
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Ho-Chunk plans for casino with up to 2,000 employees (1/11/2012)
(Wisconsin) -- Up to 2,000 permanent jobs, 500 construction jobs, a swath of spin-off development and somewhere between $150 million to $200 million in overall...
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Mulvane Casino
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12,000 people apply for casino jobs, 50 still available (12/28/2011)
(Kansas) -- More applicants are needed for jobs at the Kansas Star Casino. The casino still needs about 50 employees, mainly dealers for table games. Once they hire the...
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Kansas Star Casino still needs employees (12/27/2011)
(Kansas) -- Kansas Star Casino needs about 60 to 70 more employees to be able to operate around the clock, General Manager Scott Cooper said Tuesday, one day after the...
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Genting Resort
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Future of casinos in Florida may come down to jobs (12/25/2011)
(Florida) -- Sun-drenched Miami has beaches, South Beach nightspots, a new stadium for the Miami Marlins and athletic superstars like LeBron James. But nearly 300,000...
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Foxborough Casino
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Wynn: Casino would create 20,000 jobs (12/20/2011)
(Massachusetts) -- A casino in Foxborough would bring at least 20,000 jobs, provide free day care for employees and have minimal impact on traffic, according to the...
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Glendale Casino
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Tribe refuses to back up casino job-creation claims (access required) (12/12/2011)
(Arizona) -- The Tohono O’odham Nation has relied on a few impressive numbers in its pitch for a casino on a tract of unincorporated land surrounded by Glendale: 6...
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Seminole Tribe
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Seminoles take bus to mall to recruit casino workers (12/9/2011)
(Florida) -- Even the Las Vegas-style showgirls couldn't bring many job applicants to the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek's mobile job bus on a Thursday afternoon...
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National Indian Gaming Commission
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EMPLOYMENT: NIGC Compliance Officer (12/6/2011)
(Arizona) -- The National Indian Gaming Commission in an independent Federal regulatory agency whose primary mission is to regulate gaming activities on Indian lands for...
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Eastern Band of Cherokee
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NC Cherokee deal doesn't mean dealers just yet (12/4/2011)
(North Carolina) -- A signed agreement between Gov. Beverly Perdue and North Carolina's Cherokee Indians doesn't mean scores of live blackjack and poker dealers...
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Florida Gaming
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Cerabino: State endorses casino career as a smart bet (12/3/2011)
(Florida) -- It was hard to get Marsha Lampert excited about the plans to turn South Florida into an East Coast gambling mecca. Lampert, a 48-year-old unemployed single...
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Supporters: Jackpot for Job Seekers If Casino Legislation Wins in Florida (12/1/2011)
(Florida) -- Mixing the sounds of slot machines, blackjack and poker with Miami Beach sunshine and bikinis has long been a dream for pro-casino forces in Florida.
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Fort Sill Apache
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Casino could be Luna County's largest employer (11/29/2011)
(New Mexico) -- If developed to the full extent of planning with consideration to construction jobs, the Apache Homelands Casino would become Luna County's largest...
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Aqueduct
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Aqueduct racino adds jobs for expansion phase (11/9/2011)
(New York) -- After a high-volume opening weekend in which 65,000 people visited Resorts World Casino New York, the company said Tuesday it plans to hire an additional...
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Full Tilt Closure
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Full Tilt Poker subsidiary based in Dublin to make 180 staff redundant (10/30/2011)
(Ireland) -- UP TO 180 staff at a Dublin-based subsidiary of the US poker company Full Tilt Poker are being made redundant. Pocket Kings began informing employees of the...
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Other News
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Plaintiffs appealing Vegas casino age bias ruling (2/22/2012)
(Las Vegas) -- Six former Las Vegas Strip casino spa employees are asking an appeals court to overrule a federal judge and let a jury decide if they were dismissed...
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Employees await impact of casino closing [sub req'd] (2/19/2012)
(Mississippi) -- The consolidation of Lighthouse Point and Jubilee casinos will impact more than 300 employees. Within the next few months Jubilee will close, and...
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Sands Bethlehem Event Center draws crowds for jobs, tickets (2/17/2012)
(Pennsylvania) -- It's three months away from opening, but Sands Bethlehem Event Center already drew big crowds this week.
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Revel going to part-time workers (2/16/2012)
(Atlantic City) -- When the Revel casino opens in April, it will have many more part-time jobs than the other 11 casinos in Atlantic City.
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Revel to announce number of local employees at its Atlantic City casino at March 1 meeting (2/16/2012)
(Atlantic City) -- Revel will announce in two weeks how many resort residents will be working at the megaresort when it opens April 2, company representatives said...
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Revel's original estimate of 5,500 full-time employees will now be 38 percent part-timers (2/15/2012)
(Atlantic City) -- When Revel casino opens April 2, just 62 percent of its workers will be full-time employees - a revelation found in company documents that caught some...
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Casino executive who complained of sexual harassment loses her job (2/15/2012)
(Australia) -- ONE of the two female executives at The Star casino who complained they were sexually harassed by its sacked former managing director, Sid Vaikunta, was...
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Cosmopolitan announces ‘small’ layoff at Strip casino (2/14/2012)
(Las Vegas) -- The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, which has reported casino volumes smaller than some peers, said Tuesday it laid off an undisclosed number of employees.
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Navajo Nation leader vetoes money for green jobs (2/6/2012)
(Arizona) -- Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly once again has vetoed money to fund a commission aimed at developing green jobs.
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Valley Forge Casino Resort to host job fair starting Thurs (2/6/2012)
(Pennsylvania) -- The job market may be a crapshoot right now, but one thing’s a sure bet: Valley Forge Casino Resort will be holding a job fair Feb. 9 through 11...
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Province to spend $1.7M to train 120 people (2/6/2012)
(Ontario) -- The province will spend $1.7 million to help train 120 people for jobs in Northern Ontario’s infrastructure and green energy sectors, MPP David...
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Dozens of jobs still available at Horseshoe Casino Cleveland set to open this spring (2/2/2012)
(Ohio) -- While 600 dealer candidates are being trained to work at Cleveland's Horseshoe Casino, the gambling joint is still looking to fill dozens of open positions...
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Fiesta Rancho casino hosting job fair (1/30/2012)
(Las Vegas) -- Coast-to-Coast Career Fairs is sponsoring a job fair Monday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Fiesta Rancho casino. Companies taking part in the event include...
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Employees To Face 'Term Limits' At Casino (1/30/2012)
(Atlantic City) -- A new casino set to open in Atlantic City, N.J., has announced it will set term limits for its front-line staff. When employees' terms run out,...
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Hollywood Casino gets quite a crowd at Monday's job fair (1/30/2012)
(Pennsylvania) -- Last Friday, CBS 21 News took you behind the scenes at Hollywood Casino to where future dealers are taught the trade. Monday, a job fair was held in...
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SEAT will propose Foxwoods bus route (1/29/2012)
(Connecticut) -- Southeast Area Transit District will make a pitch to Foxwoods Resort Casino to create a paid bus line to replace free shuttles offered to the casino...
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Casino Money May Help Bring New Jobs to Lackawanna County (1/27/2012)
(Pennsylvania) -- Thanks to an influx of state money from Pennsylvania casinos, economic developers say a now vacant building in Lackawanna County will soon house at...
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Hollywood Casino holding job fair (1/27/2012)
(Pennsylvania) -- Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course, 777 Hollywood Blvd. in Grantville, is hosting a job fair 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday.
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Boyd's Biloxi property lays off workers (1/26/2012)
(Iowa) -- IP Casino has laid off employees at its Biloxi gambling house. General Manager Jack Bernsmeier told The Sun Herald that the layoffs were modest and was "...
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IP Casino eliminates some jobs (1/25/2012)
(Mississippi) -- IP Casino Resort laid off some employees this week and although the general manager declined to give an exact number, Jack Bernsmeier said it was...
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