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.
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“Station Casinos, which fought enactment of the law every step of the way, isn’t following the law,” Pappageorge said. “They need to do the right thing. Their current and former employees demand and deserve justice.”
“It’s such an injustice as a loyal worker to be abandoned by Station Casinos after working there for 16 years,” Kenia Cobas, a former cook’s helper at Green Valley Ranch in Henderson. “I’m a single mom and I have two children who depend on me, and I need to provide for them.”