The Macau Gaming Inspection & Coordination Bureau (DICJ) ordered that only 10% of the employees of each of Macau’s six casino concessionaires could continue to work beyond last Friday, July 1st.
Furthermore, the DICJ requested that each company submits the names of those employees who are no longer not working, in order that the regulator can confirm that these employees are on leave and no longer present at their place of work.
Under Macau law, no employer can force their staff to take leave, so it has to be assumed that these employees will all have to be paid whilst not working.
It is understood that the concessionaires are proposing assorted options to their employees, as this latest development adds further weight to what has been an ever-increasing legislative and financial burden over the past two-and-a-half years.
