Tak Chun<\/a>, the second-largest junket operator in Macau, has confirmed that some casinos have suspended their partnerships with the operator. The company said its affected employees will receive higher compensation than that contemplated by the Labour Relations Law, including one month\u2019s additional basic salary, seniority compensation, provident funds-for employees who have served for three years-and unapplied paid annual leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Macau\u2019s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) and the Labour Affairs Bureau have said that the jobs of employees in VIP rooms promoted by junket operators shouldn’t be affected by the suspension of partnerships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Macau's Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) and the Labour Affairs Bureau have clarified that VIP room employees with direct contractual relationships with casino operators are protected amidst junket partnership suspensions. However, staff directly employed by junket operators must independently safeguard their labour rights. Tak Chun, a prominent junket, confirmed partnership suspensions and detailed enhanced compensation packages for its affected employees.","focusai_entities":"Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ), Labour Affairs Bureau, Tak Chun","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Junket operational impact?","query":"What are the long-term implications for Macau's VIP segment given the reduced junket operational scope and the shift in labour liability?"},{"label":"Concessionaire labour costs?","query":"How will this regulatory clarification impact the labour cost structures and HR strategies of Macau's gaming concessionaires, particularly concerning VIP room personnel?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-25361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25361","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25361"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25375,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25361\/revisions\/25375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}