MGM Resorts CEO Bill Hornbuckle said during the company’s second-quarter earnings call that Las Vegas hotel occupancy is in the 30s during the week, and 50s on the weekends. Nevada’s largest employer and operator of the most Strip casinos says it has brought back less than 50 percent of its employees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Corey Sanders, treasurer and CFO of MGM, says workers shouldn’t expect the phone to ring anytime soon.<\/p>\n
“We have brought back less than 50 percent of our employees based on what we’re allowed to do and I’m not sure we’ll see a change in that any time in the near future,” stated Sanders.<\/p>\n
Unless the Clark County Commission acts on the union’s “Right to Return” demand, workers have little legal recourse to get their hours back.<\/p>\n
\nUnder the law in most states [including Nevada], if there’s no employment contract, workers are employed on an ‘at-will’ basis. That means employers have the right to fire employees at any time for any reason or no reason at all, and, conversely, employees have the right to leave the organization at any time,” explains Business Management Daily<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
However, most Nevada casino workers do have contracts through their union. MGM Resorts workers, for instance, have safeguards in their “Recall from Layoff” section.<\/p>\n
MGM must offer extra and part-time work to laid off union workers in their job classification by seniority. Laid off workers do not have to accept the part-time work, and would, therefore, be placed on a waiting list to be recalled to their full-time job. Workers who opt for the second option are also recalled based on seniority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Las Vegas unions and workers are pushing for a local ordinance in Clark County that would require employers to bring back their jobs once the COVD-19 pandemic subsides. This week, several labor unions took to the streets to campaign for a “Right to Return” ordinance. The “Save Our Jobs” coalition includes 10 unions that collectively […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":145439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,33810],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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