Businessman Sheldon Adelson Announces Plan to Pay Workers for 2 Months, Urges Others to Follow Lead

Sheldon Adelson, CEO of Las Vegas Sands, listens to President Donald Trump address the Israeli American Council National Summit 2019 at the Diplomat Beach Resort in Hollywood, Florida, on Dec. 7, 2019. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Business mogul Sheldon Adelson will pay workers for two months despite his businesses being closed amid the COVID-19 pandemic, he announced this week.

Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands resort-hotels are shut down but he said he’s still paying every one of his nearly 10,000 workers as though they were still working.