Oneida casino makes 50 New York State apartments available to attract workers
Verona’s Oneida Indian Nation casino will make 50 new apartments available to its hourly workers at below-market rates.
Oneida has taken this decision because of a critical need to fill casino and hotel jobs, something the operator claims is a by-product of a national shortage in the service sector.
The 50 apartments being made available are situated in a $15m complex near Oneida’s Turning Stone casino, west of Unica.
The complex will begin accepting tenants from 1 July 2022. Below-market rates will be offered to new, full-time employees relocating to the area, as well as those filling positions with significant shortages.
Ray Halbritter, a representative of Oneida, said: “This investment in employee housing is to help fill critical, full-time, hourly positions at our resort — cooks, dealers, hotel jobs, to name a few. Upstate New York has been particularly hard hit by an employee shortage.”
And Halbritter is confident that the five-building apartment complex being made available to staff will help attract new employees to the region.
The complex, called The Villages at Stoney Creek, will offer rent starting at $550 a month for a one-bedroom apartment, with a three-bedroom apartment starting at $750 a month.
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