A new casino set to open in Atlantic City, N.J., has announced it will set term limits for its front-line staff. When employees' terms run out, they'll have to go through the hiring process again. The casino says the policy will keep its service fresh. Others say the company is taking advantage of a tough job market. From bellhops to dealers, employees of the new casino — called Revel — will be hired for terms from four to six years. After that, they have to reapply for their jobs and compete against other candidates. Revel declined to make anyone available for an interview. In a written statement, the company asserts that its employment policy will help it "attract the most highly professional people who are inspired by a highly competitive work environment." But it's an unusual way to go. Many who work in employment law or advocacy say they've never heard of anything like this before. "What they've done here is set up a system that puts their good performers through a gauntlet of having to compete with people who have no record of performance," says Alice Ballard, a prominent employment attorney who works out of Philadelphia. Ballard says anyone can be fired from his or her job. But she thinks the casino's policy is more problematic. "Why would you take your good performers and put them through that competitive process," she asks, "if you aren't trying to get rid of a good performer for some other reason?" The new Revel casino, which sits along the boardwalk in Atlantic City, has drawn criticism for its employment policies. Ballard thinks that "other reason" is probably age. To her, this reapplication process looks like a low-profile way for the casino to regularly weed out older employees. On the other hand, there's a logic to Revel's thinking, according to Brian Tyrrell, a professor of hospitality management at Stockton College in New Jersey. To make his point, he quotes a famous hotel executive. "I think it was Hilton who talks about 1,000 points of contact with the guest, and how that is what the guest remembers, in terms of the service delivery experience," Tyrrell says. "They want to have a high degree of control over that." more-- http://www.npr.org/2012/01/30/146000685/employees-to-face-term-limits-at-casino
I deal with unions and bullcrap from staff every day. Employees have more rights than employers, and they exploit those rights all the time. That's why world economies are bankrupt. Too much attention is paid to the rights of employees, and nothing is paid to the employers except lip service.