{"id":2920,"date":"2023-04-26T12:31:11","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T12:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casinousa.com\/news\/?p=2920"},"modified":"2023-04-26T12:31:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T12:31:23","slug":"wynn-resorts-hit-with-new-lawsuit-from-slot-attendants-over-tip-sharing-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casinousa.com\/news\/wynn-resorts-hit-with-new-lawsuit-from-slot-attendants-over-tip-sharing-policy","title":{"rendered":"Wynn Resorts Hit with New Lawsuit From Slot Attendants Over Tip-Sharing Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casinousa.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/wynn-resorts.jpg\" alt=\"Wynn Resorts\" title=\"Wynn Resorts Hit with New Lawsuit From Slot Attendants Over Tip-Sharing Policy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1163\" title=\"Wynn Resorts Hit with New Lawsuit From Slot Attendants Over Tip-Sharing Policy\" width=\"300\" \/><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wynn Resorts has been sued by a slots attendant over its tip-sharing policy<\/li>\n<li>The new suit is similar to two cases filed by dealers which Wynn settled for $5.6 million<\/li>\n<li>The company\u2019s tip-sharing policy was originally instituted by ex-Chairman Steve Wynn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wynn Resorts Ltd<\/strong> is facing fresh legal action over an alleged violation of labor laws relating to its tip-sharing policy, similar to a previous case against the company that ended in a $5.6 million settlement. <\/p>\n<p>The new lawsuit centers on tips given to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casinousa.com\/games\/slots\">slot machine<\/a> attendants which were allegedly shared with their managers. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"slots-attendants-forced-to-share-tips-with-supervisors\">Slots Attendants Forced to Share Tips with Supervisors <\/h2>\n<p><strong>Sheila Little<\/strong> from Clark County sued Wynn Resorts over its implementation of a \u201c<em>mandatory tip pooling and tip confiscation policy<\/em>\u201d whereby slots employees, including her, were forced to share a portion of their tips with their supervisors. Such practice violates the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/agencies\/whd\/flsa\">Fair Labor Standards Act<\/a>, according to the suit.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyers representing the plaintiff, <strong>Kaine Messer<\/strong> and <strong>Christian Gabroy<\/strong> of the Gabroy Messer Law Firm in Henderson, Clark County, are keen on having the case recognized as a class action lawsuit to include other slot employees at Wynn who have had similar experiences.<\/p>\n<p>The suit is <strong>seeking damages in excess of $15,000<\/strong>, actual damages equivalent to the full amount of tips which are part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casinousa.com\/blog\/casino-etiquette-learn-the-dos-and-donts-at-a-casino\">casino etiquette<\/a> were unlawfully withheld from slots attendants, as well as punitive damages. Wynn Resorts has yet to comment on the latest lawsuit to hit the company.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"wynn-resorts-settled-similar-case-in-2021\">Wynn Resorts Settled Similar Case in 2021<\/h2>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time that Wynn Resorts has been sued for violating labor laws because of its tip-sharing policy. The company previously dealt with two lawsuits filed by dealers in 2013 and 2018 concerning the tip-sharing policy originally introduced in 2006 by the company\u2019s founder and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casinousa.com\/news\/judge-dismisses-foreign-agent-lawsuit-against-steve-wynn\">former Chairman and CEO Steve Wynn<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The policy\u2019s goal was to prevent dealers from out-earning their supervisors so that employees would not be discouraged to seek promotion. Wynn merged the roles of floor supervisors and pit bosses into a single position called \u201c<em>casino service team leads<\/em>\u201d with whom dealers were <strong>required to share around 12% of their pooled tips<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>No other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casinousa.com\/blog\/smoke-free-casinos-in-las-vegas\">casino on the Strip<\/a> had created the role of casino service team lead, only Wynn Resorts, and dealers had argued for years that the move was illegal.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LSi9FwgbV0I?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0?ecver=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To address the issue, the tax-sharing policy was terminated courtesy of <strong>Matt Maddox<\/strong> who took over as the company\u2019s CEO in 2018. In 2021, Wynn settled the two lawsuits, agreeing to pay $5.6 million to around 1,000 dealers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summary: Wynn Resorts has been sued by a slots attendant over its tip-sharing policy The new suit is similar to two cases filed by dealers which Wynn settled for $5.6 million The company\u2019s tip-sharing policy was originally instituted by ex-Chairman Steve Wynn Wynn Resorts Ltd is facing fresh legal action over an alleged violation of [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-general","category-industry","category-legal"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - 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