Betting parlor woes

[NewsWhore]

The more than 24,000 employees of the betting parlors disseminated around the country are calling for increased benefits for their long hours of work. According to the El Caribe, most of these employees are young women, and most of them do not receive the normal benefit package of other workers. According to the paper, the smallest of the betting parlors does at least RD$5,000 in business on just one of the two lotteries currently running in the Dominican Republic. If the parlor does business with both lotteries, business doubles to RD$10,000 or RD$12,000 per day. This means that the small stall just down the street is producing perhaps as much as RD$4.3 million per year in gross income. Nancy Molina works at a betting parlor and she says that most employees earn between RD$3,500 and RD$6,000 per month. According to the report in El Caribe, most do not receive the yearly 13th salary at Christmas time nor are they covered by medical insurance. Elaine Pimentel said that she works from two until nine at night, Monday through Saturday and Sundays until six. She earns RD$6,000 per month.

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