Layoffs and Downsizing

STK Miami Plans to Remain Open When Perry Hotel Closes for Renovation

The Perry Hotel is about to transform into the modern and eco-friendly 1 Hotel. The $100 million renovation, which will begin in the spring, is a "full gut of nearly everything in the property," according to the property owner, Starwood Capital chairman and CEO Barry Sternlicht. In an interview wit ... More >>

American Airlines To Lay Off 1,209 People at Miami International Airport

1,209 workers will find themselves out of work soon. American Airlines has filed a notice with the state that it plans to layoff 1,414 people between November 16 and December 16, just in time for the holidays. The vast majority of those jobs will be coming from Miami International Airport. Updated.

University of Miami Med School to Lay Off 800 Employees

The Miami economy got a shock today when the county's largest private employer, the University of Miami, filed a notice that it plans to lay off 800 employees from its medical school. The move comes two weeks after university president Donna Shalala said the medical school was planning on cutting ba ... More >>

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Anders Gyllenhaal, Ex-Miami Herald Editor, Made Almost $1.3 Million at McClatchy Last Year

At the Miami Herald, staffers are facing two weeks of unpaid furloughs this year and a hiring freeze has left key jobs unfilled for months. The paper's parent company, McClatchy, saw revenues drop 8 percent last year while advertising plummeted by 9 percent. So news that McClatchy has handsomely rew ... More >>

Plum TV Files for Bankruptcy, Agrees to Sale

​Apparently Jerry Power wasn't joking about Plum TV's sad financial state. The company, which produces local television in luxury markets such as Miami Beach and the Hamptons and for a short while was in the magazine business, announced it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Meanwhile, ... More >>

North Miami Beach Police Employees Fired Over Santeria Curse On City Manager UPDATE

​North Miami Beach has fired two police department employees after they allegedly were caught in the office trying to cast a Santeria curse on the city manager shortly before mass layoffs were planned. Veteran officer Elizabeth Torres and office manager Yvonne Rodriguez were canned last week over ... More >>

Jerry Powers Suing Plum TV Founders

​Back when Jerry Powers agreed to take the reigns as CEO of Plum TV, he had to pay Niche Media, the luxury publishing company he sold Ocean Drive magazine to, $3.5 million to get out of a non-compete clause in his contract. Now that he's resigned from Plum TV after claiming he was misled about the ... More >>

240 Jobs Cut at Jackson Health System

Just in time for the holidays, the top brass at Jackson Health System have decided to cut 240 jobs from their rolls. That means 170 people are now out of work just weeks before the holiday season. The rest of the job cuts are made up by the elimination of unfilled positions. 

On Our Layoff and the Illiterate South Florida Chronicle

​Some illiterate little paper I had never heard of -- and never hope to hear of again -- the South Florida Chronicle -- was reveling this morning in the fact that I had to lay off an employee a couple of weeks ago.Sorry, you simpletons. There were no big layoffs. One person in Miami and one i ... More >>

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Carlos Gimenez is the Same as the Old Boss

Carlos Gimenez has Carlos Alvaritis Disease. Symptoms include acting like the mayor who was just recalled. ​Anyone expecting some radical new ideas from Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez can just forget about it. Just like his predecessor, Gimenez is screwing over the county employees who can least ... More >>

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Multimillionaire Mitt Romney Tells Miami Audience He's Middle Class

​Miami has been hit hard by unemployment, mass layoffs, and foreclosures. Mitt Romney, meanwhile, is estimated to be worth as much as $250 million and is so loaded he's looking to quadruple the size of his West Coast mansion. So it sure was weird when he came to Miami yesterday and implied in ... More >>

Plum TV President Robert Gregory Leaves to Take Over Newsweek

​Less than a week after the departure of CEO Jerry Power and a day after mass layoffs were announced, the crumbling Plum TV luxury media empire now faces another loss. President Robert Gregory is leaving to take the same position at Newsweek Daily Beast Co. Of course, considering the state he left ... More >>

Plum TV: Large Layoffs and Major Restructuring UPDATED

​Just days after the resignation of CEO Jerry Powers, it seems Plum TV is headed for an uncertain future. Plum airs luxury lifestyle coverage on cable networks in a few high-end markets across America, including Miami Beach, Nantucket and Aspen, and recently launched magazines in Miami and the Ham ... More >>

During Tampa Campaign Stop, Multimillionaire Mitt Romney Jokes That He's Unemployed

​To Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, Florida's serious unemployment level is apparently a laughing matter. While talking to potential voters during a stop in Tampa today, Romney was listening to Floridians discuss the trouble of finding work. With a laugh, Romney said he too was unem ... More >>

Miami-Dade Institutes First Performance-Based Pay Plan for Teachers in State

​Just days after hammering out an agreement that would avoid teacher layoffs in Miami-Dade, Superintendent Alberto Carvalho has announced the implementation of the first performance-based pay plan for teachers in the state. Carvalho claims that some teachers could earn more than $100,000 a year, a ... More >>

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FIU Vice President Patti Bamford Claims School Fired Her for Whistleblowing

​Florida International University's former Associate Vice President of the Office of Business Services Patti Bamford has filed suit against the school, claiming that it fired her after blowing the whistle on some shady handling of money. Bamford claims the school publicly stated it didn't have the ... More >>

Burger King Lays Off 261 Local Workers Right Before the Holidays

The takeover of Burger King by private equity firm 3G Capital continues to have an aftertaste for longtime employees worse than their cardboard-y fries. The Miami-based, quick-meat chain has laid off 413 workers company wide, with about 261 of those coming out of South Florida. The brunt of those la ... More >>

Boardroom Bloodbath at Burger King: Mass Executive Layoffs Under New Owners

​Burger King's new Brazilian owner, 3G Capitol, just officially took control of the company days ago, and they've wasted little time in cleaning house. At least seven high-level executives at the Miami-based fast food chain have been laid off. The move is surely a sign of changes to come in the fr ... More >>

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Miami Herald to Cut 49 More Jobs

​It seemed for a while that the worst for the Miami Herald may be over, but the paper just announced that they're cutting 49 jobs across the Miami Herald Media Company. Nine of those positions will come from the Herald's newsroom, with another six coming from El Nuevo Herald's newsroom.

Cuba To Lay Off 500,000 State Workers While Growing The Private Sector

Fidel Castro now claims that his statement claiming that the Cuban model of communism no longer works was misinterpreted and taken out of context by an American journalist, but actions speak louder and words as the island nation has announced a major layoff of state workers. At least 500,000 workers ... More >>

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Miami Herald Now Asking for Donations

via The Herald​Perhaps after a long, stressful day of crunching numbers and contemplating layoffs, some Miami Herald executive decided to go for a walk to clear his head. This being Miami and all, he came across a beggar asking for spare change. Wait, he could have thought, Maybe we have it a ... More >>

Nine City of Miami Workers Earning More Than $100K Get the Boot

A couple months ago, the City of Miami's budget was about as well-balanced as Gary Busey on PCP. ​The Commission, Mayor Manny Diaz and the city's three unions staged a vicious tug-of-war over who would feel the most pain in plugging a $118 million hole.But as Tomas Regalado prepares to take o ... More >>

Metro Dade Firefighters Battle For Their Jobs

Adrien Cegora stood outside Miami Beach City Hall yesterday with a crease in his brow. The fit firefighter wore a red Metro-Dade T-shirt, along with about 50 of his co-workers. They hoped to send city commissioners a message: Indian Creek and Surfside? That's our territory. "Miami Beach is trying t ... More >>

News Roundup

Local The city's preservation board unanimously decided the Bacardi buildings are worthy of historic status. [Herald] FIU's journalism school gets accreditation, just in time for the death of journalism as we know it. [Herald] Two local schools that were close due to swine flu have reope ... More >>

Herald Cuts Become Clear

It's a municipal pastime in almost any city to riff on the daily paper -- and we've done our fair share -- but there's no delight in seeing those papers fall apart. Especially when names of the laid off start replacing cold, hard numbers. New Times Broward-Palm Beach's Bob Norman has a growing list ... More >>

Turlington Still Turning Heads on Miami Beach

Supermodel Christy Turlington just celebrated her 40th birthday and is still booking gigs. She recently spent some time poolside in Miami Beach with famed lens man Mario Sorrenti, shooting the spring/summer ads for Swiss luxe leather maker Bally. Good to know the recession hasn't forced major sup ... More >>

Hate Never Pays

Focus on the Family spent millions battling gay marriage this election cycle, and is believed to be the single biggest donor to Amendment 2 sponsors Florida4Marraige (Homophobe in Chief John Stemberger was awarded the "Family Champion Award" by the group, and has close ties to leader James Dobson). ... More >>

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