{"id":546606,"date":"2026-03-17T17:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/546606\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T17:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:30:11","slug":"crown-melbourne-to-cut-200-jobs-amid-challenging-economic-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/546606\/","title":{"rendered":"Crown Melbourne to cut 200 jobs amid &#8216;challenging economic conditions&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/crown-casino\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Crown Resorts\">Crown Resorts<\/a> has announced hundreds of employees are facing the axe as the casino giant continues to grapple with the aftermath of serious licence breaches and rising cost-of-living pressures.<\/p>\n<p>About 200 full-time staffers from Crown&#8217;s Melbourne\ufeff gaming team will be let go, with voluntary redundancies offered first, Crown Resort announced today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Crown is reviewing its operations to respond to challenging economic conditions and ongoing regulatory commitments, while continuing to deliver world-class entertainment experiences for our guests,&#8221; a Crown spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/cd253852-9f17-45a5-862b-11b070622b3c.png\"   alt=\"\"\/>Around 200 full-time staffers from Crown&#8217;s Melbourne\ufeff gaming team will be let go, with voluntary redundancies offered first, Crown Resort announced today. (Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Impacting roles is never a decision taken lightly, but these proposed changes are necessary to support Crown Melbourne&#8217;s long-term sustainability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The job cuts follow several licence breaches which sparked regulatory restrictions and hefty fines for the casino, which is owned by US financial giant Blackstone.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023 Crown Resorts agreed to pay a $450 million fine over breaches of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>In 2024 the Sydney and Melbourne businesses were given the green light to operate casino licences years after shock money laundering admissions led to restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The strict regulatory obligations, combined with cost-of-living pressures and above industry average salary costs impacted Crown&#8217;s discretionary spending, it said.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffCrown Melbourne will remain Victoria&#8217;s largest single-site private employer despite the job cuts, boasting than 13,500 team members.<\/p>\n<p>The casino slashed 1000\ufeff jobs across its Sydney, Perth and Melbourne workforces in 2024 as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/national\/crown-resorts-1000-job-losses\/4ee89d56-b2c3-432b-b22f-96976f4fe2b5\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"a major restructure\">a major restructure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crown Resorts has announced hundreds of employees are facing the axe as the casino giant continues to grapple&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-546606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}