The floormen went from making $60,000 per year to making $90,000 per year and the dealers went from $80,000 per year to $55,000 per year. Wynn decided this without any say from employees. In 2008 the tip pooling policy was expanded to the Encore. The dealers couldn’t believe that Wynn forced them to use their tip money to pay their bosses. Other employees take care of it all and the dealers can’t tell if anyone is stealing their tokes. The dealers could no longer count their own money, they couldn’t watch their tips being counted in person (now the soft count does it) and the dealers have no say in any of the process.

Steve Wynn dismantled the Toke Committee and instead of the dealers handling their own money, now the casino had the dealer’s tips under lock and key. There was a policy in the employee handbook (and it is a standard policy everywhere) that says 'No policy concerning tips can be changed without a vote from the dealers.' Steve Wynn had the language removed and there was never a vote. Wynn moved the floormen from salary to hourly, plus a $19 raise per hour, plus a percentage of the dealer’s tokes. Everyone was in agreement that the floormen needed a raise. Starting in 2006, one year after the Wynn hotel & casino opened, Steve Wynn had a meeting with dealers and management about a salary discrepancy.Īt the time the dealers were making $80,000 per year and their bosses, the floormen, only made $60,000 per year.

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