A on line casino advertising and marketing director for the MGM Resorts in Springfield, Massachusetts, stated he brazenly discriminates towards whites in the course of the hiring course of.
“Irrespective of how nice they [Whites] look on paper, they don’t match properly with my staff,” Albie Velarde, the Director of On line casino Advertising and marketing at MGM Springfield advised an undercover OMG journalist.
“I’ll purposefully search for these diverse-based hires,” he admitted.
Albie Velarde additionally revealed that MGM intently tracks the racial make-up of its workforce with HR offering month-to-month stories.
Velarde stated, “At a [MGM] property stage, HR sends us, each month once they ship us our turnover abstract of the month, they’ll level out this month we misplaced this quantity of females versus males.”
These turnover abstract stories affect hiring selections, in response to Velarde: “Hey guys, we’re dropping all of our feminine workforce. Let’s attempt, you recognize, let’s put extra females by means of the pipeline.”
Velarde additionally advised the undercover journalist that they take race and gender into consideration when hiring staff to exchange others who’ve left the corporate.
“So like if I lose one in every of my feminine hosts, I might attempt to exchange her with a feminine,” Velarde stated. “Selena, she’s my Vietnamese host, she’s very reserved, she’s very quiet. However that’s her tradition. I might exchange her with any individual who’s, in some capability, that tradition.”
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“Irrespective of how nice they [Whites] look on paper, they do not match properly with my staff.”
“I’ll purposefully search for these… pic.twitter.com/yJYFeNRvYg
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) March 20, 2025
MGM Resorts responded to the O’Keefe Media Group’s request for remark.
“This individual didn’t have hiring authority throughout his employment at MGM Springfield and these feedback don’t mirror the corporate’s insurance policies or practices,” MGM Resorts stated.
JUST IN: MGM Resorts (@MGMResortsIntl) has offered the next assertion to O’Keefe Media Group:
“This individual didn’t have hiring authority throughout his employment at MGM Springfield and these feedback don’t mirror the corporate’s insurance policies or practices.” https://t.co/z7LkLbDuVr pic.twitter.com/dvbo5jTH3j
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) March 20, 2025
