Hello Elite Traders.... I need a little help from you guys. I really doubt anyone outside of Las Vegas has heard about this but I work at the Wynn Las Vegas casino as a dealer and our tip (toke) policy has changed. In the middle of August, Steve Wynn himself flew in from Macau to address all of his dealer, boxmen, floormen, pit bosses, assist shift bosses and shift bosses about the changes. Basically to make a long story short..... No more floormen... they are called "team leaders". They do everything a floormen does expect fill out Reg 6a forms. Not only did they receive a 5k annual raise but they also receive 40% of a share of tips and the boxmen receive 20% of a share of tips.
We as dealers are struggling to get together to do something because everyone is in fear of losing there jobs.
Now in our employee book we have something call "toke bylaws" and they are the rules all the dealers follow when it comes to tips. Examples are stuff like no tips for jury duty or for funeral leave. You must work on the game for 20 mins to receive a full hour of tips. Now more importantly they state that any change in tip policy must be voted on..... Well we never had a chance to vote.... Also boxmen and floormen and bosses above are not allow to share in the tip pool... Now they renamed there floormen "team leaders" which do the same job as floormen.... (sit at the podium and talk to the other "team leader" about sports).... So our company just broke there own policys and not sure about what to do. The CEO himself told us he has spoken to the attorney general and said what they are doing is legal. The problem I see it as though they are breaking there company policy and then the came out with a new policy 5 days later in a memo stating our new toke bylaws. Also that memo was dated 4 months prior with a date of 5/6/2006 and there was no word that this kind of crap was going to happen......
It gets even better...... RUMOR has it now that we will all have to sign a form accepting the new policy. Well we never voted on it breaking the old policy's rules. Has a date of 4 months prior to it so in my mind they are starting a paper trail saying well we had this memo in May and they signed it accepting it.....
So how unethical is this? How can a company that states a policy must be voted on, go back and change there policy and issue a new policy which breaks the old policy after the new policy has gone into effect?
What it breaks down to is about a 20k decrease in pay for me and about a 30k increase for the new "team leaders". He gave us reasons about why he is doing it but really isn't the point.
So what can we do? Who can we call? Where do we start? Someone please assist us with any kind of advice you can give.....
We as dealers are struggling to get together to do something because everyone is in fear of losing there jobs.
Now in our employee book we have something call "toke bylaws" and they are the rules all the dealers follow when it comes to tips. Examples are stuff like no tips for jury duty or for funeral leave. You must work on the game for 20 mins to receive a full hour of tips. Now more importantly they state that any change in tip policy must be voted on..... Well we never had a chance to vote.... Also boxmen and floormen and bosses above are not allow to share in the tip pool... Now they renamed there floormen "team leaders" which do the same job as floormen.... (sit at the podium and talk to the other "team leader" about sports).... So our company just broke there own policys and not sure about what to do. The CEO himself told us he has spoken to the attorney general and said what they are doing is legal. The problem I see it as though they are breaking there company policy and then the came out with a new policy 5 days later in a memo stating our new toke bylaws. Also that memo was dated 4 months prior with a date of 5/6/2006 and there was no word that this kind of crap was going to happen......
It gets even better...... RUMOR has it now that we will all have to sign a form accepting the new policy. Well we never voted on it breaking the old policy's rules. Has a date of 4 months prior to it so in my mind they are starting a paper trail saying well we had this memo in May and they signed it accepting it.....
So how unethical is this? How can a company that states a policy must be voted on, go back and change there policy and issue a new policy which breaks the old policy after the new policy has gone into effect?
What it breaks down to is about a 20k decrease in pay for me and about a 30k increase for the new "team leaders". He gave us reasons about why he is doing it but really isn't the point.
So what can we do? Who can we call? Where do we start? Someone please assist us with any kind of advice you can give.....
