“In addition to not paying us for months, the hourly wages we did receive were well below what we were promised,” said one worker, cited by the Financial Times. “We are all very desperate because we all paid money from our own pockets to the brokers who brought us here.”
The casino opening on July 6 is an upgrade to the temporary base that the operator was using as it awaited the resort’s development.
According to the company’s annual report, last year Best Sunshine Live pulled in USD32 billion in VIP betting from just 16 gaming tables, narrowly beating the much larger and more established, Venetian Macao (USD29 billion).