The government’s bill envisages Macau casino workers being allowed to gamble in local casinos only on the first three days of the Chinese New Year holiday period.
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Lei Man Chao, deputy director of Professional for Gaming of New Macau, remarked that the government-proposed bill “carried good intentions” but he was doubtful of how effective the proposed measures could be in helping prevent problem gambling among casino employees. Mr Lao of Power of the Macao Gaming Association told us: “At least the bill marked a good start for curbing problem gambling issues, especially among the younger people that are fresh to the industry… In general I still support the bill – I think it is good for Macau.” “From what we understood from Mr Chan, basically the enforcement of the bill just relies on three conditions: the casino floor staff that keep watch at the entrance the inspectors of the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau and the self-discipline of the workers themselves,” Mr Lao said.Īccording to figures mentioned in March by Macau’s Social Affairs Bureau, of 157 requests for assistance in 2017 regarding problem gambling, approximately 30 percent of cases involved casino employees. Mr Lao’s association – one of the local gaming labour groups that supported the initiativeof the proposed casino entry ban to casino workers – says it had a meeting with Paulo Martins Chan, the director of the city’s casino regulator, the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau, on the topic, and came away concerned about whether the measure could be effectively enforced. “The range of the fine is not that much of a deterrent, especially to people that really have gaming addiction problems,” president of Power of the Macao Gaming Association, Stephen Lao Ka Weng, told us.
The Macau government proposes that any designated casino worker detected on a local casino’s gaming floor outside working hours would be liable to a fine of between MOP1,000 (US$125) and MOP10,000. Some staff not directly involved with gaming operations – including cage staff, food and beverage outlet workers, cleaners and those connected to surveillance operations – will also be included in the ban. The latest version of the bill – which amounts to an amendment of existing law – was announced on Friday by the city’s Executive Council, and will be sent to the Legislative Assembly to be voted upon. The doubts came from Power of the Macao Gaming Association and Professional for Gaming of New Macau. Two Macau gaming labour groups have expressed concerns to GGRAsia regarding the likely effectiveness of a proposed bill to ban the staff of the city’s casinos from all local gaming floors outside work hours so as to curb problem gambling among them.
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