{"id":777031789,"date":"2025-09-17T08:32:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T11:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777031789"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:06:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:06:01","slug":"melco-to-compensate-dismissed-city-of-dreams-manila-casino-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/melco-to-compensate-dismissed-city-of-dreams-manila-casino-employees","title":{"rendered":"Melco to compensate dismissed City of Dreams Manila casino employees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A court has ordered the company to pay PHP30,000 (US$510) each to 26 former employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Philippines.- The Philippines\u2019 Court of Appeals (CA) has ordered Melco Resorts Leisure Corp<\/strong> to pay PHP30,000 (US$510) each in nominal damages to 26 former employees of City of Dreams Manila<\/strong>. They had had been dismissed under a redundancy program in 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court ruled that while Melco\u2019s redundancy programme <\/strong>was valid, the company failed to comply with the procedural due process requirement of serving a written notice to certain employees at least 30 days before termination. The employees will not be entitled to reinstatement, backpay or any other claims as Melco \u201cdid not act in bad faith.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In September, Melco International Development Limited announced its financial results for the first half of 2025<\/a>. Net revenue was HK$19.96bn (US$2.56bn), up 12.4 per cent from the same period in 2024, and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation totalled HK$5.37bn (US$688.5m), up from HK$4.49bn (US$575.6m).<\/p>\n\n\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> PAGCOR CEO meets with new employee union<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A court has ordered the company to pay PHP30,000 (US$510) each to 26 former employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":777031793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Philippines' Court of Appeals has ordered Melco Resorts Leisure Corp to pay nominal damages to 26 former City of Dreams Manila employees due to a procedural lapse in their 2020 redundancy program, despite the program itself being valid. Separately, Melco International Development Limited reported a 12.4% increase in H1 2025 net revenue to HK$19.96bn.","focusai_entities":"Melco Resorts Leisure Corp, City of Dreams Manila, Melco International Development Limited, Philippines\u2019 Court of Appeals, PAGCOR","focusai_location":"The Philippines","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.8), regulator (0.7), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), investor_analyst (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Melco's Labor Compliance","query":"What specific enhancements to Melco's HR and legal compliance frameworks are being implemented to prevent future procedural due process violations in redundancy or termination processes across its gaming verticals?"},{"label":"H1 2025 Performance Drivers","query":"Beyond the reported net revenue and EBITDA growth, what were the primary gaming vertical contributions and geographical market dynamics driving Melco International Development Limited's strong H1 2025 financial performance?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16333],"tags":[19841,24619,18488],"class_list":["post-777031789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-city-of-dreams-manila","tag-finance","tag-melco-resorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777031789","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\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777031789"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777031789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777031814,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777031789\/revisions\/777031814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777031793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777031789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777031789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777031789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}