The company has argued that the team leads are not supervisors - and thus eligible for part of the tip pool - because they don’t have influence over pay or work schedules and have no power to discipline dealers. The new policy mandated that dealers share about 12 percent of their pooled tips with the “casino service team leads,” who dealers say are supervisors. It was the dealers’ first raise in about a decade. Maddox raised dealer pay by $2 an hour, equivalent to an annual increase of about $4,000.

Wynn was concerned that dealers were making much more than their supervisors and that it disincentivized people to rise in rank.Ī new policy instituted by Matt Maddox, who succeeded Wynn as CEO in 2018, sought to end the turmoil two months into his tenure. Wynn Las Vegas had opened the year before and was drawing huge crowds of gamblers who tipped generously. Wynn, co-founder of Wynn Resorts Ltd., launched the tip pool sharing policy in September 2006 when he simultaneously created the position of team leads to replace both floor supervisors and pit bosses. Representatives of UAW Local 3555, which represents Wynn dealers, could not be reached to respond to inquiries about the settlement. “We are pleased that all of the parties worked cooperatively to reach a resolution and bring this matter to an amiable conclusion,” Wynn Resorts spokesman Michael Weaver said in an email Tuesday. One Wynn dealer said in 2018 that she believed she had lost $100,000 since Wynn initiated the policy 15 years ago.

District Judge Andrew Gordon.ĭealers and Wynn management have been in dispute over a policy initiated by former CEO Steve Wynn in 2006 over the sharing of tips with table game supervisors. “The court finds the proposed settlement is a fair and reasonable resolution of a bona fide dispute arising under the Fair Labor Standards Act for those collective action members, all of whom are current or former employees of (the) defendant, that elect to participate in such settlement,” said an order signed Friday by U.S. will pay a $5.6 million settlement to an estimated 1,000 current and former table game dealers working at Wynn Las Vegas and Encore, according to court documents. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) Resorts Ltd. will pay a $5.6 million settlement to an estimated 1,000 current and former table-game dealers working at Wynn Las Vegas and Encore.

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