{"id":7562,"date":"2009-10-30T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=7562"},"modified":"2009-10-29T12:20:56","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T16:20:56","slug":"slow-times-blamed-for-45-job-cuts-at-casinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/30\/slow-times-blamed-for-45-job-cuts-at-casinos\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow times blamed for 45 job cuts at casinos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2151504\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Casino Niagara and Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort cut 45 jobs Tuesday in one of the biggest single-day reductions since the casinos opened.<\/p>\n<p>Three pit managers and 42 table games supervisors were let go, as the casino dealt with what it called &#8220;a consistent overstaffing situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This overstaffing situation was unique to the table games department,&#8221; said Art Frank, president of Niagara Casinos, the company that manages the two government-owned casinos in Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n<p>The casinos had more supervisors and pit managers than they needed, due to &#8220;limited business growth prospects,&#8221; a reconfiguration of the gaming floor and a new scheduling process, casino management said in a one-page statement after The Niagara Falls Review asked about the changes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Casino Niagara and Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort cut 45 jobs Tuesday in one of the biggest single-day reductions since the casinos opened. Three pit managers and 42 table games supervisors were let go, as the casino dealt with what it called &#8220;a consistent overstaffing situation.&#8221; &#8220;This overstaffing situation was unique&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,2],"tags":[2407,522,2406,2403,2408,2021,2402,172,2405,2404],"class_list":["post-7562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-casinos-and-gaming","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-casino-management","tag-casino-niagara","tag-games-department","tag-gaming-floor","tag-job-cuts","tag-jobs","tag-niagara-casinos","tag-niagara-fallsview-casino-resort","tag-supervisors","tag-table-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}