{"id":8763,"date":"2020-03-26T12:01:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T01:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/?p=8763"},"modified":"2025-07-28T13:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T03:59:10","slug":"star-and-crown-casino-workers-pay-protected-for-the-next-fortnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/archive\/star-and-crown-casino-workers-pay-protected-for-the-next-fortnight\/","title":{"rendered":"Star and Crown casino workers\u2019 pay protected for the next fortnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MEDIA RELEASE<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Star and Crown casino workers\u2019 pay protected for the next fortnight<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Star Entertainment Group and Crown Resorts will pay most stood down casino workers for the next two<br \/>\nweeks.<\/p>\n<p>This decision comes after days of discussions with United Workers Union representatives and delegates and<br \/>\nensures thousands of casino workers at Star Sydney, Gold Coast and Treasury casinos as well as Crown<br \/>\nMelbourne and Crown Perth will keep getting paid for another fortnight during the coronavirus crisis.<\/p>\n<p>At Star, full and part time workers will be paid based on the hours they would have worked in this period and<br \/>\ncasual workers who lost all work last week will now receive 16 hours pay for two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>At Crown part time payments are being based on average hours worked over a fortnight, and the casual<br \/>\npayment will be $1000.<\/p>\n<p>Dario Mujkic, United Workers Union Casinos Director says, \u201cThis is a great result for thousands of United<br \/>\nWorkers Union members and will provide some short-term relief at a time of crisis for many.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStar undertook to provide a payment on Monday, with final details confirmed today, while Crown agreed to a<br \/>\npayment yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe commend both Star and Crown for their decisions and for moving quickly to assist workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know of any other employers that have made a commitment to their workers of this scale right now.<br \/>\nThese are the kinds of decisions we need from big employers right now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll casino operators should be focusing on looking after their employees right now, both emotionally and<br \/>\nfinancially, by providing ongoing income for them during this crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Media Contact: 1300 898 633, <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:media@unitedworkers.org.au\"><strong>media@unitedworkers.org.au<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEDIA RELEASE &nbsp; Star and Crown casino workers\u2019 pay protected for the next fortnight The Star Entertainment Group and Crown Resorts will pay most stood down casino workers for the next two weeks.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":6438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-8763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive","tag-casino"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65083,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763\/revisions\/65083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}