Hawks Cay closed until summer 2018, lays off 260 workers
10-26-2017, 10:08 AM
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Hawks Cay closed until summer 2018, lays off 260 workers
This was a beautiful resort, one of the top 3 in the FL Keys. Definitely a blow to the 260 locals that used to work there.
260 workers laid off at Hawks Cay in Keys after Irma | Miami Herald
Nearly the entire staff at Hawks Cay Resort in Duck Key has been laid off, marking the first major employment casualties in the already-tight Keys job market following Hurricane Irma.
In a notice posted Wednesday by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, 260 employees have been laid off at Hawks Cay, a secluded 60-acre property that includes 427 villas and hotel rooms in the Middle Keys just south of Islamorada.
Workers received “hurricane pay” up to Oct. 14, before layoffs became effective Oct. 15, Sheldon Suga, vice president managing director of Hawks Cay, said in a statement. Because of the extensive damage left behind by Irma when she plowed the Middle and Lower Florida Keys on Sept. 10, the resort expects to be closed through mid- to late-summer 2018.
“This decision was the most difficult one that we had to make,” Suga said. “With a reopening date still unknown, we had to give them notice earlier [last] week.”
260 workers laid off at Hawks Cay in Keys after Irma | Miami Herald
Nearly the entire staff at Hawks Cay Resort in Duck Key has been laid off, marking the first major employment casualties in the already-tight Keys job market following Hurricane Irma.
In a notice posted Wednesday by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, 260 employees have been laid off at Hawks Cay, a secluded 60-acre property that includes 427 villas and hotel rooms in the Middle Keys just south of Islamorada.
Workers received “hurricane pay” up to Oct. 14, before layoffs became effective Oct. 15, Sheldon Suga, vice president managing director of Hawks Cay, said in a statement. Because of the extensive damage left behind by Irma when she plowed the Middle and Lower Florida Keys on Sept. 10, the resort expects to be closed through mid- to late-summer 2018.
“This decision was the most difficult one that we had to make,” Suga said. “With a reopening date still unknown, we had to give them notice earlier [last] week.”
