Hard Rock International announces staff pay rise totalling 100m

Hard Rock International has announced wage increases for half of its US workforce

Hard Rock International has proclaimed wage increases for half of its US workforce.

In recent months, labour shortages and industrial activity have got impacted the gambling casino and hospitality industries worldwide, perhaps to the highest degree notably inward Atlantic City.

Against this backdrop, Hard Rock is planning a major pay hike totalling $100m.

The pay increases testament impress 95 chore classifications, including cooks, housekeepers and security, among other roles.

Staff across the company’s US hotels, gambling casino and café locations are band to invite new starting reward between $18 and $21 per hour.

The get down totality is to a greater extent than duplicate the federal minimum earnings of $7.25 per hour and exceeds the United States’ highest minimum wage by $3.

Meanwhile, inwards Hard Rock’s rest home commonwealth of Florida, an entry-level squad member testament obtain at least $8 more per 60 minutes than the Sunshine State’s stream minimum earnings of $10 per hour.

“My career has encompassed o'er 4 decades and i make never been involved inwards such a historical event,” said Jim Allen, Chairman of Hard John Rock International, CEO of Seminole Gaming.

“The reinforcement the Seminole Tribe of Everglade State has precondition me to raise the standard of living for so many people is a dream come true. We get changed people’s lives and I’m proud to live a voice of it.”

Hard Rock’s nationwide pay tramp is ostensibly component part of an “ongoing sweat to honour and apprize its workforce.”

This has included paying frontline employee bonuses during the pandemic, alongside other expanded benefits.

However, the accompany was rocked by the threat of strikes inward Atlantic City earliest this year. Hard Rock, alongside several other AC properties, faced a walkout inward July, but a last-minute deal saw the gambling casino avoid a strike.