re: Harrah's is being a little bitch about the smoking ban.

by Saints72
They have to get approval to lay off employees?

Yes. Part of their contract with the state requires them to have a minimum headcount of 2,400. They're lobbying for legislation that will lower the limit to 2,000. They say there won't be any layoffs and that the reduced headcount will be made through attrition.

Currently, employee headcount is just over 2,400, but only 60% are full time employees. They say that if they don't get legislation through approving the workforce reduction, they'll cut full time workers to part time to balance their budget.