mandating everyone wear a mask<\/a> while inside public places.<\/p>\nWill Casinos Stay Open?<\/b><\/h2>\n
The Culinary Union, which represents some 60,000 gaming industry workers in the state, announced a lawsuit yesterday against Harrah’s Las Vegas LLC, The Signature Condominiums LLC, and Bellagio LLC. The labor group alleges casinos aren’t adequately protecting workers, nor do they have procedures in place to address the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n
The union claims the three casinos named as defendants have allowed spaces to remain open where a person who later tested positive for the coronavirus had been.<\/p>\n
Some states, including neighboring Arizona, have backtracked on certain reopenings. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) has ordered bars, nightclubs, and water parks to close again for a month because of an increase in the coronavirus.<\/p>\n
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Sisolak taking similar measures with casinos would further dampen a sickened gaming industry. January through May, Nevada casino win is already down 45.2 percent, and down 44.8 percent on the Las Vegas Strip.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\nOperating at only a maximum 50 percent capacity, June GGR will be far short of the more than $1 billion the casinos won in June of 2019. But this month will at least be better than the monthly reports that included Nevada casinos being closed for 78 days (March 18-June 4).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nevada casinos were closed throughout the month of May, and the shuttering of their land-based operations cost the properties more than $976 million in gross gaming revenue (GGR). The Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB) announced today that GGR in May 2020 totaled a little more than $5.8 million. By comparison, the state’s licensed gaming venues […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":140291,"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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