Isle of Capri lays off 200

By TOM WILEMON

tewilemon@sunherald.com

BILOXI - About 200 Isle of Capri employees lost their jobs in a layoff that the casino's general manager said was necessary because of seasonal slowing compounded by the U.S. 90 bridge being out.

"We still have more employees that we had prior to the storm," said Bill Kilduff, the general manager. "But we have less employees that we had utilized during the summer."

The casino now employees about 1,100.

About a third of those laid off were contract employees, he said. Others were full-time and part-time workers.

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