The push to overhaul Macau’s casino industry continues. This time, the focus is having more local employees in management positions.

To achieve this, the city state government announced last week that it is tightening the renewal process for non-resident casino executives who will be applying for working visas in Macau.

The Human Resources Office of Macau confirmed the policy change to Portuguese-language daily Jornal Tribuna de Macau, telling the newspaper that after assessing the requests of the six casino operators—which have been in operation for several years already—in the city state, “we consider these firms already present enough conditions to promote local workers [into higher positions].”

Under the new policy, the bureau can deny requests for renewals of non-resident casino executives’ working visas if “there are local workers that can fulfil the necessary conditions to perform managerial roles.”