Looking to take task openings, Southland Casino Racing inward Arkansas has boosted its hiring incentive to $2,000.
Last month, the gambling casino and Canis familiaris caterpillar tread inward Mae West Memphis announced a $1,000 signing bonus for sure jobs. Employment interviews were scheduled on Thursdays through Sept. 2.
The bonus has been upped to $2,000, and the on-site interviews are extended through and through Nov. 11, according to Southland’s website. The interviews are being conducted in the Kennel Club at the resort hotel on Thursdays from 11 am to 3 pm.
In gain to a higher bonus for some jobs, the holiday resort is paying non-tipped employees $15 an hour. Some qualified applicants also will take in on-the-spot task offers.
Employment interviews are beingness conducted to occupy all jobs on the property, including cooks, dealers, cage cashiers, and one-armed bandit tech supervisors. Information around job openings is useable on the Southland website.
Turnaround Could Be Coming
Southland is crosswise the Mississippi River River from the larger Memphis, Tenn., metropolitan area. Because Volunteer State does not feature commercial message casinos, the Memphis market place is considered of import to Southland.
Though Southland experienced a decline inward casino wins over the summer, a turnaround is expected with the recent reopening of a bridge circuit connecting the II states.
In May, the law of closure of the Interstate 40 nosepiece hampered traffic rate of flow 'tween Memphis and Occident Memphis. A crack inward a primary election reenforcement electron beam on the bridge over caused the six-lane span o'er the Mississippi River to come together for repairs.
The nosepiece was reopened on July 31 to eastbound traffic. On Aug. 2, the westward lanes into West Memphis were reopened.
Expansion Mode
As it extends its stream hiring period, Southland is in the thick of a $250 one thousand thousand expanding upon that will add together a 20-story, 300-room hotel to the site. The expansion, which will include a unexampled gaming complex, is expected to live completed in 2022.
The greyhound caterpillar track at Southland is scheduled to cease operations at the terminate of 2022. That will go forth Iowa and western United States Virginia as the only states with sound dog racing. If the domestic dog runway in Ioway also closes next yr as expected, Benjamin West Old Dominion testament live the only when province with legal domestic dog racing.
Another of Arkansas’ 3 commercial casinos, Oaklawn Casino Racing Resort, lately went on a hiring fling with the unveiling of its $100 gazillion expansion.
In April, the historical horse rails and gambling casino inward Hot Springs opened an eight-story, 198-room hotel that includes some rooms overlooking the track.
Hot Springs is near an minute southwestern of centrally located Little Rock, the majuscule city.
Saracen Credit Rating Upgraded
In Pine Bluff, Saracen Casino Resort has embarked on a grammatical construction projection to add a 300-room hotel with a group discussion nerve center and spa. The contrive is expected to be completed past the stop of 2021, according to the Arkansas Money and Politics website.
Pine Bluff is virtually 45 transactions due south of Little Rock.
As the enlargement occurs, S&P Global has raised its issuer-credit rating on Saracen to B- from CCC, according to an Aug. 31 report from the deferred payment rating agency.
“Despite headwinds associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, which considerably delayed the casino’s chess opening to tardily Oct 2020 from June 2020, Saracen’s operating execution has ramped up chop-chop since its opening night inward ahead of time fiscal 2021,” the account states.