Tampa airport food operator says layoffs will continue
July 21, 2020 - HBF Tampa Partners JV LLC, a dining concessionaire operator at Tampa International Airport, said the 107 workers it laid off earlier this year will remain off the job for a while longer. Traffic and overall business at the airport slowed to a fraction of typical passenger traffic in the wake of the global Covid-19 pandemic, and the company put many of its associates on temporary layoff status between March 20 and May 12, it said in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification sent to the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity. "Due to the fluidity of the situation surrounding Covid-19 and the reopening of the economy, we are not able to predict exactly when those associates will be able to return to work," the WARN said.