currently underemployed<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, on unpaid leave and facing welfare cuts. <\/p>\n\n\n\nIn some cases, workers are being forced to accept unpaid leave under the threat of reprisals, the association says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It adds that while some companies have instructed employees to resume their duties for the holiday period, others plan to continue with unpaid leave until 2021, The Standard HK reported. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the DSEC<\/em><\/strong>, the underemployment rate in Macau was 3.7 per cent between June and August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An NGO supporting casino workers’ rights claims underemployment is more serious than official statistics suggest. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"An NGO, the New Macau Gaming Staff Rights Association, disputes official underemployment statistics from Macau's DSEC, claiming over 20,000 casino workers face underemployment, unpaid leave, and welfare cuts, with some forced into these conditions. While some operators are recalling staff for the holiday period, others plan to extend unpaid leave into 2021, indicating persistent labor market challenges within the gaming sector.","focusai_entities":"New Macau Gaming Staff Rights Association, Statistics and Census Service (DSEC), The Standard HK","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.85), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Operator P&L?","query":"What is the projected financial impact of sustained underemployment and potential labor disputes on Macau's integrated resort operators' profit and loss statements for Q4 and into 2021?"},{"label":"Regulatory Response to Claims?","query":"How will Macau's gaming regulator and labor authorities respond to the New Macau Gaming Staff Rights Association's claims, particularly regarding discrepancies with official DSEC statistics and allegations of forced unpaid leave?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[29,257,21723],"class_list":["post-10583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-casino","tag-macau","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10583"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777009465,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10583\/revisions\/777009465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}