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Still No Gold For Employees Of Princess Gold
posted (February 24, 2014)
Former employees from the Golden Princess Casino, who were abruptly laid off last week Friday, intend to go back to the Human Resources Department tomorrow to find out if they will be paid their severance packages for the years of service that they were employed at the company.

7News understands from solid sources that those who were terminated were promised that they would be called today, so they postponed the plan to go asking for their pay to give the former employers a chance to follow up with them.

We understand that the employers have not gotten back to them, so they will now go and seek out HR.

As we told you, reports to 7News were that over 130 employees were laid off without notice on Friday morning at around 11, and our colleagues at CTV3 were on the ground just after the news was delivered to them, and they spoke with one of the former employees. Here's what she told them about how management had ensured them job security days before they were blindsided:

Voice of former employee
"They decide that they will close the casino, so we can't do anything else. They decide they are the bosses to close the casino and today it affected us a lot because they let go roughly I would say maybe over one hundred people today, so we are just waiting to see where we go from here and the next step is to see if they are going to pay us what they owe us. Most of us are here for a long time, long years, me, I am here for 11 years, so we just want to see if they are going to pay us our money because then if not then, we need to follow up and see what will happen."

Reporter
"Was there a motive? This morning they had a meeting; did they give you a reason as to why they are closing down the business?"

Voice of former employee
"They just said that they can't afford it, it's too expensive to keep the casino going, the rent is too high - that was their excuse for laying-off the workers. But they still open another casino in Chetumal, so I don't see the sense because still they go and hire other people when they already have here working."

Reporter
"But now miss, I understand, did you all knew about this prior to today's date? Were you all aware that this casino was going to close today?"

Voice of former employee
"It was only rumors that we were hearing. It came from customers, they were telling us that they heard that they were going to close the casino and the manager did a meeting before this one and he had told us that he will not close the casino and he said that if he would close the casin0 the live game department would not be touched."

We'll of course keep following the story, and we'll attempt to speak with the management of the Casino tomorrow.

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