{"id":36638,"date":"2023-10-01T18:24:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T22:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=36638"},"modified":"2023-10-01T18:24:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T22:24:41","slug":"layoff-crisis-in-florida-deepens-thousands-more-jobs-disappear-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/10\/01\/layoff-crisis-in-florida-deepens-thousands-more-jobs-disappear-in-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Layoff Crisis in Florida Deepens: Thousands More Jobs Disappear in September"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">September Sees Florida Hit Hard by Ongoing Layoffs, Thousands of Jobs Lost<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2121\" height=\"1414\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2121px) 100vw, 2121px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/layoff.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36639\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Florida was hit by a wave of job cuts in September, with a wide range of businesses announcing layoffs across the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, an employer with more than 100 full-time workers must provide a 60-day notice before laying off 50 or more people at a single site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">September Florida layoff notifications<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the bigger layoffs included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Popular used car&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/original.newsbreak.com\/@ash-jurberg-560946\/3152875502051-hundreds-left-jobless-as-florida-car-dealer-chain-declares-bankruptcy\">dealership Off Lease Only filing<\/a>&nbsp;for bankruptcy and closing all its locations in Florida. The chain had five locations across Florida, and 466 people have lost their jobs due to the closures.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Binance.US, one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges in the United States, had Brian Shroder, president and CEO of Binance US,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cryptosaurus.tech\/binance-us-ceo-resigns-amid-layoffs-bloomberg\/\">resigning from the company<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptosaurus.tech\/binance-us-ceo-resigns-amid-layoffs-bloomberg\/\">&nbsp;<\/a>amid regulatory scrutiny. The Florida-based business is laying off over 100 employees, marking its second round of job cuts this year. In July, it&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/binance-lays-off-over-1-000-employees-d59ff6ad\">laid off over 1,000 staff.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A Georgia-Pacific mill operating in Foley announced it would close the facility in November, resulting in 525 staff losing their jobs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other businesses that filed a WARN act with the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/floridajobs.org\/office-directory\/division-of-workforce-services\/workforce-programs\/reemployment-and-emergency-assistance-coordination-team-react\/warn-notices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Florida Department of Economic Opportunity<\/a>&nbsp;in September included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Alutiq is laying off 62 staff in Tyndall<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wells Fargo laying off staff in Orlando<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enhanced Resource Centers laying off 164 staff in Jacksonville<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thriveworks is laying off staff in Casselberry, Satellite Beach, Oakland Park, and Land O Lakes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Divvy Homes is laying off staff in Fort Lauderdale, Sun City Center, Wesley Chapel, and Ormond Beach<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SP Plus is laying off 99 staff in Fort Myers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your thoughts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are you concerned about these job losses? Do you fear the United States could be heading toward a recession? Who is to blame for job losses? Is there anything Gov. De Santis can do to address these job cuts?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please leave your thoughts in the comments section below and share this article with others so more people can join the discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September Sees Florida Hit Hard by Ongoing Layoffs, Thousands of Jobs Lost Florida was hit by a wave of job cuts in September, with a wide range of businesses announcing&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[6179],"class_list":["post-36638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-layoff-crisis-in-florida-deepens-thousands-more-jobs-disappear-in-september"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}