A lawsuit filed Tuesday by 76 former Station Casinos employees could cost the gaming operator more than $10.4 million if the company is found to have violated provisions of the state’s “Right to Return” to work law.
Culinary Workers Union Local 226 is backing the non-gaming employees who worked for all six of Station Casinos' open properties before the casino industry was shut down for 78 days in 2020 because of the pandemic. The suit was filed in Clark County District Court.
None of the employees were brought back despite the Legislature’s passage last spring of SB386, which guaranteed the rights of laid-off gaming and tourism industry workers to return to their jobs.
“The law requires companies to bring workers back to work,” Culinary Secretary-Treasurer Ted Pappageorge said during a Tuesday morning press conference at the union’s downtown Las Vegas headquarters. “They cannot decide to toss them out like an old shoe.”
The law went into effect on July 1, 2021, after the legislation was signed by Gov. Steve Sisolak nearly three weeks earlier.
Gaming representatives and the Culinary Union struck a deal on the high-profile worker rights legislation with less than a week left in the 120-day legislative session, agreeing to limit the scope of the bill and exempting certain employee classes including managers and stage performers. While many unionized workers have extended recall protections in their contracts, a majority of workers protected by the legislation were not...
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