NM SUPREME COURT RULED THAT INJURED CASINO WORKER CAN’T OBTAIN WORKERS COMPENSATION

As reported in the Claim’s Journal on January 21, 2020, a female worker who was injured while working in the Isleta Casino cannot claim workers compensation since the casino is not covered under the state program, and the casino has no program itself. Besides the unhealthy smoking environment in the casinos, increased crime statistics surrounding casinos, and the greatly increased risk of becoming a gambling addict, this is just one more downside of working for tribal casinos.

We have known for years that casinos cannibalize local businesses, drain the resources of local citizens, both tribal and non-tribal, causing increasing risk of bankruptcy, homelessness, criminal activity, suicide, spouse and child abuse, and other addictions, we now know that there are employees of the casinos who are victims.

It is time for the government (both tribal and state) to get out of the predatory gambling racket.