High-profile Miami-area hotels confirm layoffs

The Trump National Doral resort is among the high-profile hotels in Miami Dade that have laid of workers due to the tourism shutdown.

According to a notice filed with the state and dated March 30 by Trump Miami Resorts Management LLC, the resort laid off 560 workers, including 123 servers, 43 housekeepers, and 25 cooks.

According to a noticed on the state’s , the resort made the temporary layoffs and furloughs between March 19 through April 2. “Based on the fluid and rapidly evolving nature of this situation ... at this time we are unable to provide a specific date at which we will be able to recommence regular Resort operations and return affected employees to work.”

Companies with 100 or more employees are required to file Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notifications with the state when one-third of the workforce is laid off or furloughed.

Among the other well-known hotels that have filed WARN notices:

The Delano: Morgans Hotel Group Management laid off 261 workers from the iconic South Beach hotel at 1650 Collins Ave. on March 31 and said in its WARN, “given the unknown certainty surrounding COVID-19, it is possible the layoffs could become permanent; however, the hotel intends for this layoff to be temporary.”

Housekeeping suffered the most layoffs, 43; 32 food servers; 19 line cooks; 18 table bussers and 16 food and beverage managers were among those at least temporarily jobless.

Eden Roc: The Miami Beach icon cut loose 257 people on March 18 with a combination of permanent and temporary layoffs. Those affected included 73 servers, 19 of which were available on-call; 20 chefs and cooks; 16 stewards; and 16 massage therapists, including eight on-call massage therapists.

Four Seasons Brickell: On March 30, 312 people who worked at 1435 Brickell were furloughed. That includes 66 food servers, 45 cooks, 35 room attendants and 40 directors/assistant directors/managers/supervisors.

Though the WARN says “Four Seasons Hotel Miami will close for business for the forseeable future,” it also says the furloughs are meant to be temporary, but they “cannot predict an end date.”

Four Seasons The Surf Club Hotel and Private Residences: Surfside’s luxury resort at 9011 Collins Ave., which reopened after a massive renovation in 2017, furloughed 360 employees on March 20. Like many others, SC Hotel Property LLC said the plan is for this to be temporary, but it could very well be permanent.

Among those furloughed were 14 people who held the title of “Director” of areas such as marketing, retail, finance, food and beverage; 35 cooks, 31 servers, 18 massage therapists and 19 engineers.

Mandarin Oriental: Before the Brickell key hotel furloughed 488 employees on March 26, it sent them a letter saying management anticipated a May 31 re-opening but admitting, “we do not know what the future will hold at this juncture.”

The letter also said if reached to re-assume a position, an employee will have 48 hours to say yes to returning on the date requested or lose the job permanently.

Among the 488 were 59 chefs and cooks, 40 banquet waiters, 32 room attendants and 17 turn-down attendants.

InterContinental Miami: The hotel at 100 Chopin Plaza in downtown Miami said it’ll layoff 377 people from April 3 through Friday. Intercontinental Miami general manager Glenn Sampert wrote in the WARN that the layoff shouldn’t last longer than six months.

Those affected included 48 chefs, 47 food servers, 46 room attendants and 25 managers of various divisions.

The Standard: The Lido Island hotel started laying off 236 people on April 1, uncertain about how many will return. The paperwork said 41 massage therapists from The Standard’s vaunted spa got laid off, as well as 28 food servers, 20 cooks and 13 bartenders.

In total, over the past 30 days, nearly 11,000 workers have been reported laid off or furloughed in Florida through WARN notices.

Many of these notices were filed prior to this week but only recently appeared on the state’s layoff site. The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity says it updates the website where WARN Notices are published as soon as notices are received and processed for posting. But the notices cannot be posted unless they are fully complete, and must be sent back if they contain any errors or missing information.

The notices do not reflect the extent of the state’s unemployment landscape, which now finds about 500,000 Floridians out of work and looking for a job.