Indiana Casino Hiring Employees While Sands Is Firing Them

Indiana Live Casino will soon be opening their new casino in Shelbyville, Indiana. In preparing for the opening the casino has announced they are about to hire over 300 employees to work at the casino.

That news is drastically different than what we reported about the Las Vegas Sands Corp. earlier today. Sands is in the process of laying off over 100 workers from their Las Vegas facilities.

Indiana Live has had their temporary casino open since June and they already have over 400 employees working at the casino. When they move to the permanent casino another 350 will be added. That will be over 700 jobs that will have been filled since the summer.

At a time when casinos around the country are slashing their payrolls, Indiana Live is expecting that business will be strong enough to warrant all of the new employees. Whether the economy makes them cut back in the future is yet to be determined.

The first year of operation for the new casino will have them paying out a lot of money to the state in fees. Shelby County, where the casino is located, will be getting around $5 million. The state's Property Tax Reduction Fund will receive the most money, almost $45 million of the $74 million in taxes that will be collected.

December 13, 2008
Posted By April Gardner
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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