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A Nevada Casino Faces a Lawsuit Over Pandemic Jobs Right-to-Return

A union representing more than 60,000 hotel housekeepers, bartenders and porters is backing a lawsuit alleging that one of Nevada’s largest private employers is breaking state law by not rehiring workers laid off because of coronavirus pandemic closures two years ago.

Culinary Union officials said Tuesday the civil lawsuit filed in state court by 76 non-union hospitality workers alleges “flagrant violation” by Station Casinos of a state “right to return” law the politically powerful union backed and the Legislature adopted last year.

“They demand the right to be rehired, and reinstatement into job positions in which they are qualified,” Ted Pappageorge, union secretary-treasurer, told reporters and a room full of supporters and plaintiffs in the case at a Culinary Union hall in Las Vegas.

Read the source article at Associated Press News

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