MGM is setting out to fill some of the 2,000 construction jobs that were promised to build the company’s $800 million Springfield casino.
MGM officials are scheduling two days of interviews, Thursday and Friday, with minority-owned and women-owned union construction companies interested in bidding for jobs on the project.
The Las Vegas-based entertainment company interviewed veteran-owned businesses in July at its Springfield construction office.
MGM has agreed to affirmative action hiring goals for the construction jobs. Massachusetts Gaming Commissioner Bruce Stebbins said MGM will be held to that agreement.
" There is ongoing monitoring to make sure they meet their goals and if they are not meeting their goals telling us why," Stebbins said.
The scheduled opening of the casino has been delayed a year to September 2018 because of the I-91 viaduct reconstruction.
