Hard Rock Atlantic City Issues Memo to Workers Regarding Who Can Talk with Media

Hard John Rock Atlantic City has issued a memorandum to its employees making known them that they must take in keep company favourable reception before discussing relevant gaming matters with members of the media.

First obtained by Politico, the Hard Rock memorandum tells the resort’s more than 3,600 employees that they should refrain from speech production with the media on behalf of the casino. All media access code requests must follow sanctioned past Hard Rock Atlantic Ocean City’s public dealings director.

Only authorized and sanctioned team up members are permitted to stand for the property inward the media. This includes radio call-ins, TV interviews, and/or comments to newspaper and mag writers,” the memoranda warns.

The varsity letter goes on to tell faculty members that they are non to respond to media inquiries.

“DO NOT endeavour to respond questions from a reporter,” the memo states. “They [journalist] must move through public relations. Provide the journalist an email name and address or speech sound keep down for a public relations team up fellow member to contact.”

Bad Press

Hard John Rock Atlantic Ocean City President Joe Lupo also heads upwards the Casino Association of New island of Jersey (CANJ). Lupo himself has been the topic of recent electronegative publicity for comments he made during a Feb luncheon with the Public Relations Council of Greater Atlantic City.

During his address, Lupo scolded an effort among some resort workers to censor indoor gambling casino smoking. Groups such as Casino Employees Against Smoking Effects (CEASE) feature come up out in support of legislating being pushed inwards capital of New Jersey to oddment the casinos’ plumb indoor atmosphere loophole.

Lupo downplayed the oppositeness among the gaming industry’s workforce.

“I don’t trust that 30 people walking down pat(p) the Boardwalk represents the 21,000 employees that are employed inwards the casinos,” Lupo said.

The comment immediately garnered backlash from CEASE.

Joe Lupo should non follow mocking casino employees who simply require a safe workplace. Whether it’s 30 workers or the thousands who experience joined CEASE, we merit honor and a vocalize in our possess health and safety,” responded Pete Naccarelli, co-founder of CEASE.

Naccarelli went on to say that Lupo “is leading the scrap to preserve forcing us to suspire used smoke on the job.” CEASE later demanded an excuse from Lupo, an invoke that went unfulfilled.

Support Growing

New island of Jersey lawmakers go along to mull deuce pieces of lawmaking inward the Senate and General Assembly that would repeal the casinos’ indoor smoking exemption provided to them under the state’s 2006 light broadcast act. The bills proceed to attract legislative cosponsors.

Senate Bill 264 — authored and introduced in January past Senators Shirley Turney (D-Hunterdon, Mercer) and Chief Joseph Vitale (D-Middlesex) — has since garnered 14 Senate cosponsors. Assembly Bill 2151 — introduced inwards Feb past Assemblypersons William Moen (D-Camden, Gloucester), Apostle Paul Moriarty (D-Camden, Gloucester), and Herb Conway (D-Burlington), has attracted the signatures of 32 cosponsors.

But before the lawmakers tin ballot on the legislation, the bills must number one give their assigned committees. With strong antagonism from the gaming industry, the bills experience stalled inward their respective chamber health committees.

SB 264 rests with the Senate Health, Human Services, and Senior Citizens Committee. type AB 2151 remains with the Assembly Health Committee.