In Macau, Tuesday apparently observed around 150 individuals go to a rally being held outside the Galaxy Macau inn and casino to challenge current working conditions inside the Cotai Strip property and request that its laborers be paid an extra yearly reward.
As indicated by a report from GGRAsia, the activity composed by a gathering called Professional for Gaming of New Macau was provoked after several Galaxy Macau workers held up dissensions with the enclave’s Labor Affairs Bureau following a month ago’s Typhoon Hato. The class three tropical twister struck the area on August 23 and some staff purportedly grumbled that the period had seen them subjected to unpaid extra time and inadequate rest times. The protest today is against the harsh way Galaxy Entertainment [Group Limited] treats its employees,” a worker at Galaxy Entertainment Group Limited’s five-star StarWorld Hotel property identified as “Wan” reportedly told GGRAsia at the rally. “Now [Galaxy Entertainment Group Limited] is giving us in advance [part of] the bonus from year-end but we are saying no. This bonus was supposed to be ours anyway. It [did it] just to keep our mouths shut.”
Claimed by Galaxy Entertainment Group Limited, Galaxy Macau purportedly reported a week ago that it would be forward-paying a “yearly optional reward” to staff individuals, which is to add up to an additional month’s pay. In any case, dissidents purportedly requested that the casino administrator consistently remunerate representatives for a “fourteenth month” and change some current work environment rehearses. “In responding to media enquiries about a non-Galaxy Entertainment Group Limited employee organizing a protest today, the company wishes not to comment on this incident,” read a statement from Galaxy Entertainment Group Limited reportedly sent to GGRAsia. “However, Galaxy Entertainment Group Limited reaffirms that the company is always willing to listen to its employees and is committed to following up on any reasonable suggestions and making any necessary improvements.”
