cut 95 per cent of its staff<\/a><\/em><\/strong> after Covid-19 restrictions were enforced across Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAt the time, Chief Executive Ken Barton said: “I have a deep gratitude to our employees for their understanding and commitment during this painful and highly uncertain time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We are continuing to investigate ways in which we can support our employees on an ongoing basis.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition to the hardship fund, Crown has already introduced a two-week special payment and $1,000 for casuals to assist their staff during the crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Around 11,500 Crown Resorts employees who were stood down due to the COVID-19 pandemic can use the support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Crown Resorts has established a hardship fund, supported by a union, for approximately 11,500 employees stood down due to COVID-19 restrictions in Australia. This initiative, alongside prior special payments, aims to provide financial assistance to staff impacted by the 95% workforce reduction.","focusai_entities":"Crown Resorts, Ken Barton","focusai_location":"Australia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Q2\/Q3 financials?","query":"What is the projected financial impact of these discretionary employee support funds on Crown Resorts' Q2 and Q3 operational expenditures and liquidity, considering the scale of the workforce reduction?"},{"label":"Long-term workforce strategy?","query":"How does this hardship fund integrate into Crown Resorts' broader long-term workforce strategy for post-pandemic recovery, talent retention, and potential re-staffing initiatives?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,28,161],"tags":[289,14657],"class_list":["post-6809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-casino-news","category-daily-news","tag-australia","tag-crown-resorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809","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=6809"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777018325,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809\/revisions\/777018325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}