{"id":31338,"date":"2022-07-01T02:16:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T05:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=31338"},"modified":"2026-04-23T07:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:16:07","slug":"macau-casinos-asked-to-temporarily-reduce-staff-amid-covid-19-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-casinos-asked-to-temporarily-reduce-staff-amid-covid-19-outbreak","title":{"rendered":"Macau casinos asked to temporarily reduce staff amid Covid-19 outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Authorities in Macau have asked casinos to reduce staff by as much as 90 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau has asked casino operators to temporarily reduce the number of workers on their gaming floors by nearly 90 per cent amid <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-covid-19-cases-continue-to-rise\" target=\"_blank\">a rise in Covid-19 cases in the city<\/a>. The Ministry of Health has reported 638 cases in the latest outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to local media, the new countermeasure will be in place from today (July 1) until at least July 8. <strong>SJM Holdings\u00a0<\/strong>has launched a home leave programme to let employees who have taken seven days of leave, either paid or unpaid, have an extra day of paid leave.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, <strong>Cloee Chao<\/strong> of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-casino-workers-call-for-venues-to-close-amid-covid-19-outbreak\" target=\"_blank\">the New Macau Gaming Staff Rights Association<\/a> has said that casinos should temporarily shut their doors.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chao\u00a0said: \u201cIt\u2019s too awful to torture tens of thousands of employees like this. Is it necessary to make us suffer from the frequent tests just for a few guests?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Macau have asked casinos to reduce staff by as much as 90 per cent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":21513,"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 has mandated a temporary 90% reduction in gaming floor staff for casino operators from July 1-8, citing a rise in COVID-19 cases. This regulatory directive significantly impacts operational capacity and workforce management, with SJM Holdings implementing a home leave program amidst calls for full operational closure from staff associations.","focusai_entities":"Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau, Ministry of Health, SJM Holdings, Cloee Chao, New Macau Gaming Staff Rights Association","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.8), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"What is the projected GGR\/NGR impact for Macau's concessionaires during this mandated staff reduction period, and what contingency measures are being deployed to mitigate revenue loss across gaming verticals?"},{"label":"Regulatory Compliance Evolution","query":"How does this specific regulatory directive on staffing levels compare to previous operational restrictions in Macau, and what are the long-term implications for governance frameworks and B2C licensing in public health crises?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338,158],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-31338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31338","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=31338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31374,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31338\/revisions\/31374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}