Fort Erie Race Track and Slots Making Changes 

The Fort Erie Race Track and Slots horse racing and gaming facility is trying to keep their doors open. The track has been around for more than a century, but they are having a tough time keeping their doors open because of the economy. They don’t want to lay people off, but they just couldn’t figure out how to keep their doors open.  

So the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp stepped in and said that they were going to help then find a solution for their problem. They are going to reduce the number of slot machines that the track offers down to 400 from 1,079. The Lottery said that this will make more sense as they just don’t have the demand for the slot machines and they are paying on them every month.  

They said that they were “responding to the market conditions” and what they saw as unnecessary expense. With fewer slot machines, the track will not need as many people to work there however. This means that there are bound to be lay offs anyway, but they are till hoping that they might find a way to keep more jobs than they need to get rid of. The track said that through “attrition” or shorter work weeks that they might be able to keep on more than they will have to get rid of. 

Both the lottery commission and the track feel that getting rid of the extraneous slot machines is a step in the right direction and that this is one sure way of getting them back on their feet again.

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