{"id":139017,"date":"2020-06-17T23:59:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T06:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=139017"},"modified":"2020-06-18T10:35:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T17:35:16","slug":"penn-national-gaming-cuts-more-than-2500-jobs-at-13-locations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/penn-national-gaming-cuts-more-than-2500-jobs-at-13-locations\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn National Gaming Cuts More Than 2,500 Jobs at 13 Locations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Penn National Gaming became the most recent casino owner to announce layoffs, as the Wyomissing, Penn.-based company has issued WARN notices in at least eight states over the past week.<\/p>\n

\"Penn
The Hollywood Casino in St. Louis will see 445 jobs eliminated permanently, owner Penn National Gaming announced last week. The layoffs are part of an overall reduction in force by the gaming company as its casinos reopen at limited capacities. (Image: LittleT889\/Wikipedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The letters and announcements posted on state labor department websites since June 12 state a total of 2,575 jobs will be permanently lost at 13 of the company\u2019s 36 casinos and two corporate offices. Most of the terminations will take place in August, although a couple of venues will conduct their layoffs in September.<\/p>\n

These layoffs at Penn National Gaming are the unfortunate result of COVID-19 related business circumstances that were sudden, dramatic, and beyond our control,<\/strong>\u201d wrote Gene Clark, Penn National\u2019s senior vice president and chief human resources officer, in a letter to the Nevada Department of Employment, Training, and Rehabilitation<\/a> last week. “…These significant drags on our business will likely continue for the foreseeable future.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“The impact on our business was not reasonably foreseeable until now,” Clark continued. “We simply could not foresee that the initial closures of our properties that were issued by one or two states for a limited period of time, ultimately spread throughout all the states in which we operate, and eventually be extended, interrupting almost all business and travel temporarily.”<\/p>\n

Identical language was featured in the casinos\u2019 letters to other state officials. The letters also stated that the casinos could not have anticipated when states would allow them to reopen nor could they have been able to prepare for reopening under \u201crestrictive\u201d guidelines that would curtail traffic.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s possible the scope of the job cuts at Penn National may be larger. The company has properties in 16 states, and not all of those states have updated their mass layoff announcements through June.<\/p>\n

Company Stock on Sharp Rise<\/h2>\n

Like many of its fellow publicly traded gaming companies, Penn National\u2019s stock (NASDAQ: PENN) hit a 52-week low shortly after the coronavirus forced all of the nearly 1,000 US casinos to close in mid-March. On March 18, the stock sold for $3.75 per share.<\/p>\n

And just like most other gaming stocks, Penn National took off<\/a> from there. On June 5, just days after its properties began reopening and only days before the company started issuing layoff notices, the stock reached a 52-week high of $40.14.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, PENN closed at $32.46.<\/p>\n

Latest Gaming Company to Cut Jobs<\/h2>\n

The Penn National layoffs come after the company furloughed most of its more than 26,000 workers after the casinos closed in March. During the closure, less than 850 workers remained on payroll.<\/p>\n

The number of jobs eliminated varies by Penn National facility. The largest layoff is at the Hollywood Casino St. Louis, where the company will cut 445 positions starting on Aug. 15. The casino just reopened on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The company also will let go of 329 at the River City Casino, which is located in St. Louis and reopened Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Penn National\u2019s corporate offices in Pennsylvania and Las Vegas also will see 233 positions cut.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

And some properties may not be as affected. A company spokesman told the Dayton Daily News<\/a><\/em> Tuesday that the Hollywood Gaming Dayton racino would see a \u201cvery small number of layoffs.\u201d Meanwhile, according to the Ohio Office of Workforce Development, Penn National\u2019s Hollywood Casinos in Columbus and Dayton would see more than 300 jobs eliminated between them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Penn National\u2019s layoff announcements come on the heels of other gaming companies revealing their plans to get leaner. Gaming during the COVID-19 recovery has meant fewer slots, fewer seats, and fewer amenities for guests.<\/p>\n

Last month, Boyd Gaming<\/a> announced that job cuts of up to 60 percent may take place at its properties. Company officials said they made the announcement to be as transparent as possible with workers.<\/p>\n

Also in May, MGM Resorts International acting CEO Bill Hornbuckle told furloughed employees that not everyone may return to the company\u2019s casinos and resorts this year.<\/p>\n

In addition, Station Casinos alerted its workforce to prepare for a significant reduction in jobs at the company.<\/p>\n

\n

Penn National Layoffs Announced<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Ameristar East Chicago, Indiana – 127 jobs
\nHollywood Bangor, Maine – 121
\nHollywood Casino Columbus, Ohio – 188
\nHollywood Casino Toledo, Ohio – 116
\nPenn National Gaming Corporate, Pennsylvania and Nevada – 233
\nHollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course, Pennsylvania – 64
\nM Resort, Nevada – 328
\nAmeristar Black Hawk, Colorado – 117
\nHollywood Casino at Kansas Speedway – 218
\nRiver City Casino, Missouri – 329
\nHollywood Casino St. Louis, Missouri – 445
\nArgosy Casino and Spa, Missouri – 289<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Penn National Gaming became the most recent casino owner to announce layoffs, as the Wyomissing, Penn.-based company has issued WARN notices in at least eight states over the past week. The letters and announcements posted on state labor department websites since June 12 state a total of 2,575 jobs will be permanently lost at 13 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":139018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33810],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPenn National Gaming Cuts More Than 2,500 Jobs at 13 Locations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Penn National's layoffs will impact the gaming company's St. Louis casinos especially hard as its two properties there will lose nearly 775 jobs.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/penn-national-gaming-cuts-more-than-2500-jobs-at-13-locations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Penn National Gaming Cuts More Than 2,500 Jobs at 13 Locations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Penn National's layoffs will impact the gaming company's St. Louis casinos especially hard as its two properties there will lose nearly 775 jobs.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/penn-national-gaming-cuts-more-than-2500-jobs-at-13-locations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Casino.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Casino.OrgNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-06-18T06:59:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-06-18T17:35:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1012px-Hollywood_Casino_St._Louis.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1012\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Steve Bittenbender\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Casino_Org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Casino_Org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Steve Bittenbender\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/penn-national-gaming-cuts-more-than-2500-jobs-at-13-locations\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/penn-national-gaming-cuts-more-than-2500-jobs-at-13-locations\/\",\"name\":\"Penn National Gaming Cuts More Than 2,500 Jobs at 13 Locations\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/penn-national-gaming-cuts-more-than-2500-jobs-at-13-locations\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/penn-national-gaming-cuts-more-than-2500-jobs-at-13-locations\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1012px-Hollywood_Casino_St._Louis.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-18T06:59:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-06-18T17:35:16+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/eb30e765d812fc9b38b333f8d13068b2\"},\"description\":\"Penn National's layoffs will impact the gaming company's St. Louis casinos especially hard as its two properties there will lose nearly 775 jobs.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/penn-national-gaming-cuts-more-than-2500-jobs-at-13-locations\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/penn-national-gaming-cuts-more-than-2500-jobs-at-13-locations\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/penn-national-gaming-cuts-more-than-2500-jobs-at-13-locations\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1012px-Hollywood_Casino_St._Louis.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1012px-Hollywood_Casino_St._Louis.jpg\",\"width\":1012,\"height\":720,\"caption\":\"The Hollywood Casino in St. Louis will see 445 jobs eliminated permanently, owner Penn National Gaming announced last week. The layoffs are part of a overall reduction in force by the gaming company as its casinos reopen at limited capacities. (Image: LittleT889\/Wikipedia)\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/penn-national-gaming-cuts-more-than-2500-jobs-at-13-locations\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Gaming Business\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/gaming-business\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Penn National Gaming Cuts More Than 2,500 Jobs at 13 Locations\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Casino.org\",\"description\":\"Latest Casino and Gaming News\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/eb30e765d812fc9b38b333f8d13068b2\",\"name\":\"Steve Bittenbender\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cropped-7-1-96x96.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cropped-7-1-96x96.png\",\"caption\":\"Steve Bittenbender\"},\"description\":\"Steve Bittenbender covers Midwest and Gulport news for Casino.org. He also specializes in sports betting and horse racing. Steve is a veteran reporter and brings more than two decades of experience covering sports, business and politics. He joined Casino.org in 2019. Steve has also covered major collegiate and professional sports for the Associated Press and the Louisville Courier-Journal and is frequently featured on local network TV newscasts and podcasts for his horse racing business and legislative expertise. A Reuters contributor, he has also previously served as editor for Government Security News. Steve lives in Louisville, Kentucky -- the epicenter of the US horse racing industry -- with his wife and son. He is also an avid poker player, having learned from his uncle as a wholesome after-school pastime with cookies and milk. Contact Steve at stevebittenbender@casino.org.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/author\/steve-bittenbender\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Penn National Gaming Cuts More Than 2,500 Jobs at 13 Locations","description":"Penn National's layoffs will impact the gaming company's St. Louis casinos especially hard as its two properties there will lose nearly 775 jobs.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/penn-national-gaming-cuts-more-than-2500-jobs-at-13-locations\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Penn National Gaming Cuts More Than 2,500 Jobs at 13 Locations","og_description":"Penn National's layoffs will impact the gaming company's St. Louis casinos especially hard as its two properties there will lose nearly 775 jobs.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/penn-national-gaming-cuts-more-than-2500-jobs-at-13-locations\/","og_site_name":"Casino.org","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Casino.OrgNews","article_published_time":"2020-06-18T06:59:56+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-06-18T17:35:16+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1012,"height":720,"url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1012px-Hollywood_Casino_St._Louis.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Steve Bittenbender","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@Casino_Org","twitter_site":"@Casino_Org","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Steve Bittenbender","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/penn-national-gaming-cuts-more-than-2500-jobs-at-13-locations\/","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/penn-national-gaming-cuts-more-than-2500-jobs-at-13-locations\/","name":"Penn National Gaming Cuts More Than 2,500 Jobs at 13 Locations","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/penn-national-gaming-cuts-more-than-2500-jobs-at-13-locations\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/penn-national-gaming-cuts-more-than-2500-jobs-at-13-locations\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1012px-Hollywood_Casino_St._Louis.jpg","datePublished":"2020-06-18T06:59:56+00:00","dateModified":"2020-06-18T17:35:16+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/eb30e765d812fc9b38b333f8d13068b2"},"description":"Penn National's layoffs will impact the gaming company's St. Louis casinos especially hard as its two properties there will lose nearly 775 jobs.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/penn-national-gaming-cuts-more-than-2500-jobs-at-13-locations\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/penn-national-gaming-cuts-more-than-2500-jobs-at-13-locations\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/penn-national-gaming-cuts-more-than-2500-jobs-at-13-locations\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1012px-Hollywood_Casino_St._Louis.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1012px-Hollywood_Casino_St._Louis.jpg","width":1012,"height":720,"caption":"The Hollywood Casino in St. Louis will see 445 jobs eliminated permanently, owner Penn National Gaming announced last week. The layoffs are part of a overall reduction in force by the gaming company as its casinos reopen at limited capacities. (Image: LittleT889\/Wikipedia)"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/penn-national-gaming-cuts-more-than-2500-jobs-at-13-locations\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"News","item":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Gaming Business","item":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/gaming-business\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Penn National Gaming Cuts More Than 2,500 Jobs at 13 Locations"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/","name":"Casino.org","description":"Latest Casino and Gaming News","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/eb30e765d812fc9b38b333f8d13068b2","name":"Steve Bittenbender","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cropped-7-1-96x96.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cropped-7-1-96x96.png","caption":"Steve Bittenbender"},"description":"Steve Bittenbender covers Midwest and Gulport news for Casino.org. He also specializes in sports betting and horse racing. Steve is a veteran reporter and brings more than two decades of experience covering sports, business and politics. He joined Casino.org in 2019. Steve has also covered major collegiate and professional sports for the Associated Press and the Louisville Courier-Journal and is frequently featured on local network TV newscasts and podcasts for his horse racing business and legislative expertise. A Reuters contributor, he has also previously served as editor for Government Security News. Steve lives in Louisville, Kentucky -- the epicenter of the US horse racing industry -- with his wife and son. He is also an avid poker player, having learned from his uncle as a wholesome after-school pastime with cookies and milk. Contact Steve at stevebittenbender@casino.org.","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/author\/steve-bittenbender\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}