Singapore casino hires card dealers in Taiwan

One of Singapore’s integrated resort (IR) operators is recruiting card dealers in Taiwan, whose own casino plans have been put on the back burner, according to Singaporean newspaper Strait Times.
The operator was not named but a source quoted by the Strait Times confirmed that it is Resorts World Sentosa (RWS), which just received its casino licence on Saturday. RWS opened four hotels last month.
Asked about this, RWS spokesman Robin Goh did not deny or confirm the recruitment exercise, but said in an e-mail reply that RWS remained “highly committed” to hiring locals as its priority.
Currently, more than 70 per cent of the nearly 7,000 staff on its payroll are locals, he added.
But he noted that it was “a challenge to recruit locals with certain skill-sets such as those needed for the running of a casino and a world-class theme park.”
“As a result, foreign talent and workers have been hired to complement our staff strength and to help facilitate the transfer of knowledge and skills to our local hires,” Goh, RWS’ assistant director of communications said.
News about the job openings was reported prominently in the Taiwan media, but some human resource experts said the starting pay could not be considered attractive.
Lin Hsien-ya, a spokesman for 1111 Job Bank, noted that casinos in Macau offered similar wages for service personnel serving high-end customers. Croupiers usually command higher wages, she added.