Resorts Tries To Bar Flamboyant Attorney From Representing Former Cocktail Servers In Age Discrimination Lawsuit
Resorts Casino Hotel has filed authorised credentials reporting the California profession does not encounter the authorised typical for out-of-state attorneys to be certified to a New Jersey case. They moreover quote what they tenure her “grandstanding open behavior.”
Allred disagrees, adage she and her co-counsel are immaculately competent to hoop the case. She told The Press of Atlantic City Resorts contingency be frightened of her to take such a step.
The servers lay they were dismissed in preference of younger servers when the casino switched to petty costumes over the winter.
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Thousands of employees have been picketing over what they are mission unjust pay cuts and casino administration motionless it was time to hope for is to worst.
The hundreds of dejected Resorts employees did not end over 800 people from pier in to the Horizon Room at Resorts Casino on Monday in finding of employment.
“Serving, anywhere, bubbly beverage serving, food portion whatever,” mentioned Laura Zimmerman from Atlantic City.
“I’m seeking for a bartending job, a bit of a improved chance for me,” mentioned Zachary Pickert, from Ventnor City. “I’m anticipating to obtain a new job, improved illness benefits, things have been type of rough,” he said.
Resorts officials mentioned Monday’s work satisfactory audience shows that there are hundreds of people peaceful to work at the salary rates the association is now disputing.
“It only goes to uncover you that people out here unequivocally need work,” mentioned Malik Massey of Pleasantville.
“The casinos are a loyal firm so you’re seeking for something with a burly income and solid employment,” mentioned Shelly Damiano of Buena, New Jersey.
The casino staff interviewed field for a number of positions inclusive housekeepers, servers and bartenders.
“Quite a couple of people out here today too, so it’s a lot of people seeking for work,” mentioned Massey.
“I’m perplexing not to highlight it so ample and only urge a lot,” mentioned Zimmerman.
With so many at the work satisfactory out of work at the moment, Monday gave them a small hope.
“Hopefully I’ll obtain a work today,” mentioned Massey.
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NJ Governor To Suspend Gaming At Atlantic City Resorts
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New Jersey’s Atlantic City casinos contingency defer gaming as of noon Saturday due to Hurricane Irene, state Governor Chris Christie mentioned on Friday.
Guests at the resorts who are stuck “due to journey logistics problems will be available to stay in the hotels,” Christie said. “Meanwhile, depletion of all others able to leave will move forward around local depletion plans,” he added.
Any depletion brings the danger of probable looting and the Republican commissioner mentioned that “security, notice and continuance operations and crew have been ramped up and coordinated,” Christie said.
(Reporting by Joan Gralla)
Gaming N Ews
The Press of Atlantic City found that if a gambler with a hot hand at craps had not taken the Tropicana Atlantic City Casino Resort for more than $8 million last month, June’s decline would have been just 2 percent.
After 34 straight months of putrid gaming numbers going back to September 2008, officials in the nation’s No. 2 casino market have learned to grab onto any optimistic tidbit of information.
“We got beat up pretty bad in table games,” Tropicana CEO Tony Rodino told the newspaper. “I think going forward, June is a positive sign of what’s to come.”
Gaming revenues aside, there are some encouraging events taking place in Atlantic City.
Last month, Landry’s Restaurants returned the name Golden Nugget Atlantic City to the market, removing Trump Marina from the building that cost the company $38 million to purchase in February. Landry’s is spending more than $100 million to refurbish and upgrade the 728-room hotel-casino.
Last year, longtime gaming executive Dennis Gomes headed a group that spent $31.5 million to buy the aging Resorts Casino Hotel . A renovation through a line of credit has allowed Gomes’ management team to renovate portions of the 942-room hotel-casino in a Roaring ’20s theme.
The work seems to have paid off. Through June, Resorts’ gaming revenues are up 0.3 percent over the same six months of 2010.
Much of the city’s anticipation surrounds the $2.5 billion Revel project, which resumed construction and is targeting a May 2012 opening.
On Thursday, a developer said he was proposing to build an $848 million family entertainment complex on the abandoned Bader Field adjacent to Atlantic City’s oceanfront casino area. The site would feature an indoor water park, condominiums, restaurants, a 100,000-square-foot casino, a bingo hall and a monorail to whisk visitors to and from Bader Field.
“The announced capital expenditure investments and new projects are positive signs for Atlantic City and may drive incremental visitation,” Union Gaming Group principal Bill Lerner said.
Even with the market’s gaming revenues down 7 percent for the first six months of the year, and 9 percent over the past 12 months, there is still hope, even in the wake of expanding competition from casino growth in Pennsylvania and New York.
One of the best investment potentials, according to analysts, is a measure signed into law in January by Gov. Chris Christie that allows Atlantic City to add two casinos with less than 500 hotel rooms.
Last week, Pinnacle Entertainment jumped into the mix.
The Las Vegas-based regional casino operator filed a letter of interest with New Jersey gaming regulators for one of the boutique casino licenses.
“We simply filed the letter of interest to keep our options open and meet the deadline,” Pinnacle spokeswoman Kerry Andersen told The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Pinnacle is expected to reveal more of its plans for Atlantic City by an Aug. 19 deadline. Lerner believes the company is easily one of the front-runners for the boutique licenses. Two local groups are interested in the licenses, including a company offering to place a Hard Rock Casino on the Boardwalk’s southern end.
Pinnacle has access to available cash, a strong balance sheet and enough land for several projects.
In 2006, Pinnacle spent $270 million to acquire the aging Sands Casino and an adjacent land parcel. The Sands was closed and imploded in 2007 and the company announced plans for a $1.5 billion to $2 billion Boardwalk resort.
The economy, however, tanked and Atlantic City gaming revenues began their nosedive. Pinnacle canceled the project in late 2008. The company had only a few nibbles from real estate speculators for the 19-acre site since it went on the market 20 months ago. The boutique concept allows Pinnacle to make use of the site and gives the company, which has signature casinos in St. Louis, Louisiana and Indiana, new hope on the Boardwalk.
“Pinnacle’s relatively new management team still has ample roadway to increase operating efficiencies and profitability, allocate capital prudently, and focus on core businesses and assets,” JP Morgan gaming analyst Joe Greff told investors last week.
Several analysts thought it would take time for the boutique hotels to gain regulatory approvals and get built. But their emergence could spell doom for some older and weaker Atlantic City resorts.
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