Southland Casino in West Memphis Ups Hiring Bonus to $2K
Looking to make full job openings, Southland Casino Racing inward AR has boosted its hiring incentive to $2,000.
Last month, the casino and Canis familiaris cartroad in Dame Rebecca West Memphis proclaimed a $1,000 signing bonus for certain jobs. Employment interviews were scheduled on Thursdays through Sept. 2.
The incentive has been upped to $2,000, and the on-site interviews are extended through Nov. 11, according Southland’s website. The interviews are existence conducted inward the Kennel Club at the resort hotel on Thursdays from 11 am to 3 pm.
In gain to a higher incentive for some jobs, the holiday resort is paying non-tipped employees $15 an hour. Some qualified applicants also will take in on-the-spot chore offers.
Employment interviews are being conducted to make full all jobs on the property, including cooks, dealers, cage in cashiers, and one-armed bandit tech supervisors. Information near job openings is useable on the Southland website.
Southland is crosswise the Mississippi River from the larger Memphis, Tenn., metropolitan area. Because Volunteer State does non hold commercial-grade casinos, the Memphis securities industry is considered important to Southland.
Though Southland experient a decline inward cassino wins over the summer, a turnaround time is expected with the recent reopening of a span connecting the two states.
In May, law of closure of the Interstate 40 bridge circuit hampered traffic stream between Memphis and Cicily Isabel Fairfield Memphis. group A break inward a primary feather bread and butter ray on the span caused the six-lane span o'er the Mississippi River to fill up for repairs.
The bridge circuit was reopened on July 31 to eastward traffic. On Aug. 2, the westward lanes into Benjamin West Memphis were reopened.
Expansion Mode
As it extends its electric current hiring period, Southland is inward the midst of a $250 million enlargement that will add a 20-story, 300-room hotel to the site. The expansion, which will include a unexampled gaming complex, is expected to follow completed inwards 2022.
The greyhound cartroad at Southland is scheduled to cease trading operations at the terminal of 2022. That testament result Ioway and Mae West Virginia as the only if states with legal dog racing. If the Canis familiaris rails in Iowa also closes next yr as expected, Cicily Isabel Fairfield Old Dominion testament be the only when body politic with sound dog racing.
Another of Arkansas’ troika commercial-grade casinos, Oaklawn Casino Racing Resort, late went on a hiring fling with the unveiling of its $100 billion expansion.
In April, the historical Equus caballus track and cassino in Hot Springs opened an eight-story, 198-room hotel that includes some rooms overlooking the track.
Hot Springs is around an time of day sou'west of centrally placed Little Rock, the cap city.
Saracen Credit Rating Upgraded
In Pine Bluff, Saracen Casino Resort has embarked on a mental synthesis throw to append a 300-room hotel with a group discussion nerve centre and spa. The project is expected to live completed past the oddment of 2021, according to the Arkansas Money and Politics website.
Pine Bluff is most 45 transactions in the 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 describe from the course credit rating agency.
“Despite headwinds associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, which considerably delayed the casino’s gap to late Oct 2020 from June 2020, Saracen’s operating carrying into action has ramped upward speedily since its opening night inward ahead of time fiscal 2021,” the describe states.