The owners of Tinian Dynasty Hotel & Casino have not reached a settlement with over 500 current and former foreign workers who sued them over the denial of their CNMI-only Transitional Worker (CW-1) petitions. <\/p>\n
At a settlement conference on Wednesday, U.S. District Court for the NMI Magistrate Judge Heather L. Kennedy, however, encouraged the parties to continue settlement discussions.<\/p>\n
Kennedy set the next settlement conference for May 19, 2017.<\/p>\n
According to the minutes of the settlement conference, attorney Samuel Mok appeared with plaintiff Eric Dona and nine other co-plaintiffs.<\/p>\n
Attorney Daniel Guidotti appeared with Raymond Chan, who was identified as the authorized representative for Tinian Dynasty owners and management Hong Kong Entertainment and Megastar.<\/p>\n
In setting the Wednesday\u2019s settlement conference, Kennedy ordered that each party shall attend the conference with an authorized representative possessing settlement authority and counsel.<\/p>\n
In their lawsuit, Dona and co-plaintiffs, through counsel Mok, alleged that the owners and management of Tinian Dynasty lied to them about their immigration legal status.<\/p>\n
Mok alleged that the owners and management of Tinian Dynasty lied that they were legally authorized to work notwithstanding the denial of their CW-1 petitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The owners of Tinian Dynasty Hotel & Casino have not reached a settlement with over…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[4147,13305,13306,4806],"class_list":["post-236097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","tag-attorney-daniel-guidotti","tag-eric-dona","tag-raymond-chan","tag-samuel-mok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}