Atlantic City’s Newest Casino Revel to Impose Term Limits on Employees

If you are thinking about getting a job at the all new Revel Casino in Atlantic City, you might want to think twice. 

Newly hired employees of the Revel Casino will be subject to term limits of four to six years, just like some politicians.  At the end of said term, employees will have to re-apply. 

The policy will "attract the most highly professional people who are inspired by a highly competitive work environment," Revel wrote in a statement.

"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 told National Public Radio anyone can be fired from his or her job but that 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?"

Ballard also suggested that this policy is one way to rid the casino of those employees who are getting along in years (and maybe looking a little less youthful).

To her, this reapplication process looks like a low-profile way for the casino to regularly weed out older employees, NPR noted. 

It’s not just about looks in that regard.  The older one gets, the more money one tends to get paid. 

- Aaron Goldstein, Gambling911.com