{"id":6761,"date":"2020-05-26T12:09:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T12:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=6761"},"modified":"2026-04-24T04:57:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:57:01","slug":"okada-manila-employees-casino-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/okada-manila-employees-casino-philippines","title":{"rendered":"Okada Manila to cut more than 1,000 employees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Operator lays off staff as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and the forced casino closure in the country.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Philippines.- Okada Manila is to lay off more than one thousand employees, citing the financial impact of the Covid-19 pandemic as the cause of the mass cuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okada Manila and other gambling venues in the country have been closed since March, with no date yet for when they may be able to reopen their doors to the public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Inside Asian Gaming, the casino will officially notify employees on June 15, all of whom will receive separation pay in accordance with Philippines law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In April, <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/okada-manila-casino-staff\">Okada Manila gave staff half of their mandatory 13 month pay<\/a><\/em><\/strong> to help them with the financial burden of the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operator lays off staff as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and the forced casino closure in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Okada Manila is implementing mass layoffs impacting over one thousand employees due to the sustained financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the mandated closure of its integrated resort in the Philippines. This operational restructuring, including separation pay, reflects the severe economic pressures faced by land-based gaming venues with indefinite reopening timelines.","focusai_entities":"Okada Manila, Inside Asian Gaming","focusai_location":"Philippines","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on GGR?","query":"What is the projected impact of these prolonged closures and operational restructuring on Okada Manila's Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) and Net Gaming Revenue (NGR) for the current fiscal year?"},{"label":"Regulatory Response?","query":"What specific regulatory or governmental support measures, if any, are being considered by PAGCOR or the Philippine government to mitigate the economic fallout for integrated resorts and their workforce?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,161,158,16333],"tags":[29,8986,128],"class_list":["post-6761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casino-news","category-daily-news","category-slider-home","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-casino","tag-okada-manila","tag-philippines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761","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=6761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6772,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761\/revisions\/6772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}