Casino operator Imperial Pacific International Holdings has assured the government in Saipan that it will hire more locals or U.S. citizens as employees.

Bertha Leon Guerrero, VP for human resources at Imperial Pacific, told the Commonwealth Casino Commission that half of the company’s over 1,000 employees are locals and/or U.S. citizens, which complies with the government’s required percentage of 50 percent local workers, Marianas Variety reported.

In July, the Hong Kong-listed casino operator had to let go more than 130 of its foreign workers amid reports of a breached cap on workers in the island this fiscal year.

But in her report to the casino commission, Leon Guerrero indicated that 30 percent of their local workers have either resigned from their jobs or have been terminated “due to performance and attendance.”