Senate Bill 386 is being pushed by the Culinary Union, which contends only 50 percent of the labor giant’s 60,000 workers are back to work.
“Knowing they will get their job back would at least give workers a hope they will not become homeless or struggle to feed their families, which are fears too many Nevadans and their families are dealing with every day,” said Culinary Union Secretary-Treasurer Geoconda Argüello-Kline in a statement.
Shelly Stewart spent a quarter of a century as a Main Street Station cocktail waitress.
In March 2020, Boyd Gaming let her and many of her friends go.
"I've pretty much done the same job over the past 25 years," she said. "I've invested so much time with the company that I'm not willing to give up yet. I'm not giving up on my job."