Fontainebleau Las Vegas Lays off Dozens of Table Game Dealers
Posted on: May 29, 2025, 05:51h.
Last updated on: May 29, 2025, 09:56h.
- The Fontainebleau laid off dozens of table game dealers this week
- The Las Vegas casino hotel has faced many challenges since opening in 2023
- Chief among the challenges is an anemic location and competition from more established luxury resorts
The Fontainebleau Las Vegas laid off as many as 60 table game dealers on Tuesday, May 27, according to multiple reports. Most were escorted off the property by security guards.
The news was broken the day of the massacre by the X page Las Vegas Locally, which even obtained a screen shot of an email summoning an ex-worker to a “mandatory meeting with a Table Games Department leader.”
This has caused significant backlash on social media, with some describing the process as “humiliating and traumatic.”
The layoffs followed an earlier report — also by Las Vegas Locally, a rising powerhouse in breaking Las Vegas news — that most of its table game dealers would be demoted to part time, adding that the affected employees were considering a class-action lawsuit citing discrimination and favoritism was being considered.
The cuts are part of broader workforce reductions at the $3.7 billion resort, which also saw layoffs across various departments in November 2024 — also according to Las Vegas Locally — with employees receiving only two weeks’ severance pay regardless of role or seniority.
The Fontaine Blues
The Fontainebleau, which opened in December 2023, has faced challenges including underwhelming visitor numbers caused by its location on the anemic north end of the Strip, and competition from more established nearby luxury resorts such as Wynn Las Vegas and the Venetian.
The addition of a money-laundering investigation to that list, revealed last week, cannot have helped matters, since it could cost the casino tens of millions in legal fees and fines.
Fontainebleau would not confirm its latest layoffs until finally issuing the following statement to the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Wednesday…
“We continue to evaluate our business needs and adjust our hiring strategy accordingly. It is a customary practice in every industry and Fontainebleau Las Vegas continues to have a positive impact in the approximate 6,250 current members it employs as well as the multiple vendors and partners associated with the resort.”
Last Comments ( 10 )
Evidently Corey sleeps with Las Vegas Locally, this keyboard imp is no different than NonVital Vegas and his trail of cocktail napkins.
Free parking would encourage locals to go there for drink, dining or slots. They will easily spend more than the $20 parking charge. Try being a little creative, not that complicated.
It is a beautiful Resort, but it is not ADA friendly (handicap access should start at the curb - front entrance access), nor inviting towards Locals (those overpriced / small portions nachos posted on Twitter did not help). Resorts World just announced free parking from now to August, perhaps Fontainebleau should do the same (and both should offer local discounts for dining / entertainment to spread a positive word of mouth). Only catering to the wealthy elite does not allow any Resort to last long .... and I never want to see any Casino go belly up (nor do I want to read about Workers losing their jobs).
I thought the UAW local 3555 represents the dealers?
My heart goes out to all the table dealers laid off. You did nothing wrong and you deserved better from your leadership. Leadership’s decision to have 6:5 blackjack and $100 min bet tables at 3am kept me away.
Take a lesson from when mobsters ran casinos they knew how to take care of their gamblers with rooms, food and free parking.
Try free parking
Las Vegas locally is a rising powerhouse?? . Nah, just a thin-skinned keyboard warrior who reports rumors, just like that alcoholic vital Vegas
Terminate worthless C level executives
too many competitors, not enough customers. a shakeout is coming