(The Center Square) – Las Vegas casinos are betting on tighter budgets for their operations as a post-pandemic boom slows and morphs into a trickle of layoffs.
Even as the country gambles at historic levels, casino employees are at risk of losing their jobs.
“This seems to be part of a long-term trend to try to keep leaner operations that began during the [Great] Recession,” Amanda Belarmino, an assistant professor at University of Nevada at Las Vegas’ College of Hospitality, told the Las Vegas Review Journal . “Casinos tend to try to find ways to make strategic cuts that will not impact service quality.”…