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    Layoffs related to outsourcing, Labor training requests show [Tampa Tribune, Fla.]

    Feb. 11--TAMPA -- Even as Florida faces near-record unemployment, some companies continue to lay off workers and move work overseas.

    U.S. Department of Labor documents obtained by The Tampa Tribune show that Apria Healthcare, a company that distributes diabetic and respiratory supplies to patients, is cutting as many as 79 jobs in Tampa by next month and shifting at least some of the work overseas.

    Meantime, a second Bay area company, Essilor Laboratories of America, said a year ago that it was cutting 159 positions in St. Petersburg. At the time Essilor told a local media outlet that the layoffs resulted from the loss of business. The Labor Department documents show that the layoffs related to the shifting of work to Mexico.

    In Essilor's application for employee training assistance, human resources director Ryan Murry says the company's outsourcing of work to Chihuahua, Mexico, decreased the need for manufacturing in the United States.


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    Companies will continue to outsource to an area where restrictions on labor are relaxed, until the local environment gets better.

    By now, you've all heard this quote from the news on Tuesday, which illustrates just how clueless the "leaders" of our nation are, when it comes to running a business...

    "Most small businesses right now, if they've got enough customers to make a profit and they can get the bank loans required to boost their payroll, boost their inventory and sell to those customers, they will do so."


    Yeah, I get a loan every week to make my payroll too!:hammer:


    But the point is, they pretend that they don't have a clue that the more regulation they pile on, the more businesses will leave for more business friendly locals. It's not going to change anytime soon.
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