“The law requires companies to bring workers back to work,” Culinary Secretary-Treasurer Ted Pappageorge said during a Tuesday morning press conference at the union’s downtown Las Vegas headquarters. None of the employees were brought back despite the Legislature’s passage last spring of SB386, which guaranteed the rights of laid-off gaming and tourism industry workers to return to their jobs. The suit was filed in Clark County District Court. A lawsuit filed Tuesday by 76 former Station Casinos employees could cost the gaming operator more than $10.4 million if the company is found to have violated provisions of the state’s “Right to Return” to work law.Ĭulinary Workers Union Local 226 is backing the non-gaming employees who worked for all six of Station Casinos' open properties before the casino industry was shut down for 78 days in 2020 because of the pandemic.