Hard Rock Atlantic City Issues Memo to Workers On Who Can Talk To Media
Hard John Rock Atlantic Ocean City has issued a memoranda to its employees making known them that they must have keep company favourable reception before discussing relevant gaming matters with members of the media.
First obtained past Politico, the Hard Rock memoranda tells the resort’s more than 3,600 employees that they should chorus from speaking with the media on behalf of the casino. All media memory access requests must follow approved past Hard John Rock Atlantic City’s public dealings director.
Only authorized and sanctioned team members are permitted to interpret the attribute inwards the media. This includes wireless call-ins, TV interviews, and/or comments to newspaper and mag writers,” the memorandum warns.
The missive goes on to recite staff members that they are not to respond to media inquiries.
“DO NOT endeavor to answer questions from a reporter,” the memoranda states. “They [journalist] must spell through public relations. Provide the journalist an email speak or phone figure for a public dealings squad member to contact.”
Bad Press
Hard John Rock Atlantic City President Joe Lupo also heads up the Casino Association of New island of Jersey (CANJ). Lupo himself has been the dependent of recent negatively charged publicity for comments he made during a Feb luncheon with the Public Relations Council of Greater Atlantic City.
During his address, Lupo scolded an effort among some holiday resort workers to ban indoor casino smoking. Groups such as Casino Employees Against Smoking Effects (CEASE) get come come out inwards back up of legislating existence pushed in Trenton to destruction the casinos’ plum indoor aura loophole.
Lupo downplayed the oppositeness among the gaming industry’s workforce.
“I don’t trust that 30 people walking pull down the boardwalk represents the 21,000 employees that are employed inwards the casinos,” Lupo said.
The commentary immediately garnered backlash from CEASE.
Joe Lupo should non live teasing gambling casino employees who simply require a safe workplace. Whether it’s 30 workers or the thousands who have joined CEASE, we deserve abide by and a vocalization inwards our have health and safety,” responded Pete Naccarelli, co-founder of CEASE.
Naccarelli went on to say that Lupo “is leading the oppose to hold forcing us to breathe secondhand smoking on the job.” CEASE later demanded an apology from Lupo, an appealingness that went unfulfilled.
Support Growing
New island of Jersey lawmakers proceed to mull two pieces of legislating inwards the Senate and General Assembly. Those would repeal the casinos’ indoor smoking freedom provided to them below the state’s 2006 pick send act. The bills proceed to draw in legislative cosponsors.
Senate Bill 264 — authored and introduced in January by Senators Shirley Turney (D-Hunterdon, Mercer) and Chief Joseph Vitale (D-Middlesex) — has since garnered 14 Senate cosponsors. Assembly Bill 2151 — introduced inwards February past Assemblypersons William Moen (D-Camden, Gloucester), Saul Moriarty (D-Camden, Gloucester), and Herb Conway (D-Burlington), has attracted the signatures of 32 cosponsors.
But before the lawmakers tin voting on the legislation, the bills must first of all liberty chit their assigned committees. With strong enmity from the gaming industry, the bills get stalled in their respective chamber health committees.
SB 264 rests with the Senate Health, Human Services, and Senior Citizens Committee. AB 2151 remains with the Assembly Health Committee.