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Caesars layoff history

Anyone on a Caesars payroll works for a company that has agreed to be sold. Fertitta Entertainment agreed to pay $31 a share in cash, in a deal valued at about $17.6 billion counting about $11.9 billion of Caesars debt, and the deal carries no financing condition and is subject to shareholder approval plus regulatory and other closing conditions. Shareholders approved it on September 22, and the FTC's second request kept the antitrust review open. Waiting on an ownership change you had no say in is its own kind of stress. Caesars said its corporate management and its property-level management and personnel are expected to remain in their roles, an expectation with no head count or time period attached, and the Culinary Union's Ted Pappageorge said the union anticipates discussions ahead about the full ramifications of the purchase.

In the 2020 shutdown, the pre-merger Caesars Entertainment Corp. announced on April 2 furloughs expected to reach roughly 90 percent of the employees at its domestic-owned properties, plus corporate staff. The WARN notices put numbers on single properties. Desert Palace Inc., filing as Caesars Las Vegas at 3570 Las Vegas Boulevard South, told Nevada's employment department on April 22 that 6,148 employees had been furloughed starting around April 3. Horseshoe Hammond's notice to Indiana six days later counted 1,693 furloughed since March 16. Caesars Las Vegas and Horseshoe Hammond both said they intended the furloughs to be temporary while warning they could become permanent layoffs, and the Nevada notice said it came inside the 60 days WARN ordinarily requires because the circumstances weren't reasonably foreseeable. The two split on bumping. Union employees at Caesars Las Vegas had the right to bump other employees under their contract, while Hammond's employees didn't get that right.

Eldorado Resorts closed its $17.3 billion purchase of Caesars Entertainment Corp. on July 20, 2020. The close set off a new flurry of layoffs, the Review-Journal reported, with most Caesars executive jobs going to their Eldorado counterparts and no official count from COO Anthony Carano. CFO Bret Yunker said the synergies would "unfortunately, result in some job reductions" and promised to make them "as compassionately and transparently as possible" without giving a number or locations. He also said headquarters would be in Reno, with a large corporate presence in Las Vegas. An analyst said then that meaningful cuts and hiring freezes had already happened at Caesars since the deal's announcement the year before. Regulators required property sales too. The FTC required sales in Lake Tahoe and Shreveport, Indiana regulators required the sale of three casinos, and Eldorado had already agreed to sell casinos in Mississippi and Missouri.

More assets changed hands later. Caesars' lease on certain Rio assets ended on October 2, 2023, and the lessor took over all operations. The World Series of Poker trademark sale closed October 29, 2024, with licenses letting Caesars keep running the live series in Las Vegas for 20 years, and the $275 million LINQ Promenade sale closed that December. By May 2025, amid months of layoff reports at Las Vegas casinos, the Review-Journal reported that Caesars had reevaluated its labor levels, though it hadn't acknowledged changes publicly and a spokesperson declined to give details. Asked about cost savings on the earnings call, COO Anthony Carano said the team looks at every vertical, labor efficiencies included. The paper reported no significant reductions among Culinary Local 226 and Bartenders Local 165 members to that point, and wrote that because union members have contractual protections, industry cuts typically land on other staff such as mid-to-upper-level management.

Our WARN tracker holds 33 filings by Caesars and entities it owns today, a count that includes those entities' filings from before Caesars bought them and leaves out units since sold and independent operators, and it shows 0 filings covering 0 jobs since the start of 2025. If a cut follows the deal, the Labor Department's worker guide is the yardstick. It describes written notice 60 days ahead as the general requirement when its conditions are met, and it sets the size lines at a business with 100 or more full-time workers and a plant closing that lays off at least 50 of them, a mass layoff of 50 to 499 that's 33 percent of a site's full-time staff, or 500 or more at one site, subject to its rules on which workers count and to exceptions. In 2020, Caesars Las Vegas pointed to business circumstances it said weren't reasonably foreseeable. The 2020 notices warned furloughs could turn permanent, and the guide's list of job losses owed notice includes a layoff of more than six months. If a covered layoff came without the notice owed, a worker may be able to pursue back pay and benefits in damages, capped at 60 days and tied to how much notice actually arrived. Those notices also tied bumping rights to the union contract, so keep that contract with any notice letter you get.

Reporting on previous Caesars layoff rounds

• July 2020, after the Eldorado merger closed · Most Caesars executive jobs went to their Eldorado counterparts, with no official head count

• March and April 2020, shutdown furloughs · Expected to reach about 90 percent of employees at domestic-owned properties, plus corporate staff, including 6,148 at Caesars Las Vegas and 1,693 at Horseshoe Hammond in their WARN notices

  Caesars paid the first two weeks, after which employees could use available paid time off, and paid health premiums through June 30 or a return to work, whichever came sooner

What to do after being laid off from Caesars

1. File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Caesars's biggest hubs: Nevada, Indiana. Somewhere else? Every state is here.
2. Apply for financial and hardship assistance. Unemployment supplements income, but food benefits, health coverage and utility help are often available as well. Here's some of what Caesars's hub states run: Nevada, Indiana, and every other state is here.
3. Mind the health insurance window. Losing coverage opens a 60-day special enrollment period, and an ACA plan usually beats unsubsidized COBRA. Compare your options before the employer coverage lapses, and read how the COBRA clocks run if you are weighing it seriously.
4. Get your real runway number. Severance plus savings divided by reality. The calculator takes five minutes.
5. Know which clocks are already running. Severance review windows, COBRA election, visa grace periods, and 401(k) rollovers all run on federal deadlines that started at termination. All five deadlines are here.