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US – Caesars offering incentives to wear masks as union calls for them to mandatory
By Phil - 24 June 2020
Caesars Entertainment has deployed a promotional team to hand out facemasks along with a $20 voucher in free slot-machine play to Caesars Rewards loyalty card customers at its reopened casinos.
With facemasks not yet mandatory in Nevada’s casinos the team is handing them out at Caesars Palace, Paris Las Vegas, Flamingo, The Linq Hotel and Harrah’s Las Vegas. Casinos operators are strongly encouraging that face masks are worn but so far they are only mandatory at gaming tables.
A Caesars spokeswoman confirmed that over the weekend $7,500 in free play was given out to 375 customers.
Nevada’s Governor Steve Sisolak is discussing the mask situation with health and safety advisers after coronavirus numbers went up in the state.
Nevada’s Culinary Union 226 wants face coverings to be mandatory for all workers and Las Vegas visitors.
The union’s secretary-treasurer Geoconda Argüello-Kline said: ” Workers have fears. The numbers are not going down. We really need everybody to wear masks, [and] the rooms need to be cleaned daily. Mandatory tests and checking the temperatures of everybody who’s coming inside.”
Since the reopenings two casino employees at the Flamingo have tested positive for the coronavirus, whilst restaurants inside the Bellagio and Linq Hotel after workers came down with COVID-19.
