Republic Amusements Files 48-Worker WARN Notice for Camp Hill, PA, Effective December 20, 2026

Republic Amusements, the Camp Hill, Pennsylvania skill-games vendor, has a WARN record on the Layoff Atlas registry covering 48 workers, with an effective date of December 20, 2026. The notice date is unavailable — the record arrived as a recently imported undated entry — but its timing lands squarely in the fallout from Pennsylvania's ban on skill-games machines, which took full effect earlier this month.

The filing

• Company: Republic Amusements
• Location: Camp Hill, Pennsylvania
• Workers reported: 48
• Effective date: December 20, 2026
• Notice date: unavailable (recently imported undated record)

Republic Amusements is a skill-games vendor — it supplies the slot-like "skill games" machines found in bars, restaurants, fraternal organizations, family entertainment centers, and convenience stores across Pennsylvania. It operates through Capital Vending, Apple Vending, and Entertainment Experts.

Why the jobs are going away: Pennsylvania's skill-games ban

On June 15, 2026, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that skill games qualify as "slot machines" under the state's Gaming Act, making them illegal gambling machines outside the regulated casino framework. The ruling carried a 120-day safe harbor that ended on October 13. Pennsylvania State Police began enforcement on October 14, with the power to seize machines and pursue charges against operators and businesses that kept offering them.

The decision affects an estimated 70,000 machines statewide, cutting off a revenue stream for thousands of small host businesses. Six skill-games operators or distributors signed compliance agreements with the State Police to disable their machines and remove them on a rolling basis. Others shut down outright — Miele Manufacturing, another major supplier, announced it would discontinue operating its skill-game devices in the state.

Gaming-industry outlets reported on October 15 that Republic Amusements would lay off workers and had filed a WARN notice giving 60 days' notice, with the cuts attributed to lawmakers' failure to pass a regulatory and tax framework that could have kept the machines legal.

The company

Republic Amusements is a second-generation, family-owned business. Chief operating officer Joe Calla said his family started the business "nearly 64 years ago" and called it "incredibly frustrating" to build a company supporting employees and small businesses only to see elected officials refuse to act. Calla singled out lawmakers and Governor Josh Shapiro's push for "tax parity" with casinos as evidence they had "no real intention of doing right by small business."

According to the company, the affected workers serviced about 1,000 locations across Pennsylvania. Republic said each of those host businesses would also lose a revenue stream, putting their own employees' wages — and in some cases jobs — at risk.

A note on the numbers: 81 announced vs 48 in the registry record

There is a gap worth flagging. The company publicly announced 81 layoffs in its October 15 statement, as reported by gaming-industry press. The registry's imported record covers 48 workers with a December 20, 2026 effective date.

Both figures describe reported plans, not confirmed job losses, and different records can cover different subsidiaries, phases, or reporting routes (Republic's brands include Capital Vending, Apple Vending, and Entertainment Experts). The registry combines official records and labeled secondary reports, and the notice date on this particular record is unavailable, so treat the registry's 48-worker figure as the record on file — not a revision of the company's announced 81.

December 20 keeps showing up

December 20, 2026 is becoming one of the registry's busiest single effective dates. Three filings now share it:

• Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream — 803 workers, Howard County, Maryland
• DSquared Hospitality — 83 workers, Bellevue, Washington
• Republic Amusements — 48 workers, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania

Together they account for 934 reported workers on a single effective date — a reminder that effective dates cluster around notice-period math and year-end business decisions.

How to read this filing

A few cautions, as always. First: reported plans, not confirmed job losses. WARN figures describe what employers told the state they planned to do; actual separations can differ. Second: the record is undated. The registry's Pennsylvania page shows no new official direct filings in the last 365 days (the newest official notice date is March 18, 2025), so this entry came through an imported record. Pennsylvania's archive holds 1,901 notices covering 256,522 workers, with 12 notices carrying future effective dates. Third: coverage is partial. WARN data is not a census of layoffs — missing source coverage is not zero layoffs, and worker totals exclude unavailable counts.

Nationally, the registry currently shows 701 notices and 65,974 reported workers in the 90-day window, with 33 counts unavailable (data last synced October 23, 2026). The top states by reported workers are Washington (16,938), California (14,224), Illinois (4,626), Texas (3,652), and Ohio (3,180).

Data source: Layoff Atlas