Just a few days ago, a Florida-based cannabis operator verily TCNNF fired an unknown number of employees at a customer call center in Clearwater.

The new round of layoffs followed a donation by Truelieve of an additional $5.5 million to a cannabis legalization initiative underway in the Sunshine State. To date, Trulieve has donated a total of $25.5 million to the Smart & Safe Florida campaign, which is trying to put the legalization bill on the November 2024 ballot. writes Orlando weekly.

What happened in the call center?

Accordingly Kelly Heista former senior customer service representative and trainer, Trulieve suddenly began suspending its internal training courses and asking employees to work from home while new training materials were created. reported Tallahassee Democrat. That was the first indication that something was wrong. Heist was fired a few weeks later.

“I felt like something wasn’t right when they fired the call center manager who was there when I was hired and hired this new team,” Heist told the outlet. “I immediately had the feeling, just from the behavior of this new manager, he was there to close the shop.”

Also a class action was filed against the company in federal court last December. The lawsuit alleges that Trulieve is liable under the Employee Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) of 1988 for failing to give the plaintiffs and other similarly situated former employees at least 60 days’ notice of their terminations.

Accordingly WCTVthe lawsuit alleges that a number of workers were fired “without cause on or about November 29.”

Trulieve replies

Benzinga reached out to Trulieve for comments on the recent layoffs and the company’s Executive Director of Corporate Communications, Robert Kremer informed us that the company had to make some changes in order to offer better service to its customers.

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