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Over to Las Vegas now, a city we don’t discuss all that often. As you likely could have guessed, the economic storm that created this whole financial mess we’re in now has hit the city just as hard as it has everywhere else. But sometimes the timing of something is just a coincidence, floating alongside a national trend. Such is the case with the Wynn Resorts company, which has just laid off 53 employees from their design department now that the hotel and casino chain has completed work on their latest Las Vegas offering, the Encore, which opened in late December and thus, no longer requires a full staff. So a lay off not due to economic woes, but handled with a heavy heart none the less, considering how tough the job market is. Here’s a bit:

John Littell, president and chief operating officer of Wynn Design and Development, said in a Wednesday statement that the layoffs were difficult, but the result of Encore being completed.

…The company says the layoffs trim the design and development staff to 76, with the laid off workers receiving full compensation and benefits for 60 days.

Speaking of Wynn and Vegas, we recommend going back to reading this post about Joel Bergman, Wynn’s former design man, wherein he talks about both about working within Wynn’s company and how the city will handle these tough times.

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