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Since MITER Brands bought PGT Innovations in 2024, it has cut staff in Venice and announced it would close the Hialeah and Medley plants and move the lines it kept to Venice and Fort Myers. PGT had planned closings that way for North Carolina in 2010 and Orlando in 2020.

What we know about PGT Innovations severance and layoffs

  • 442 jobs in PGT's September 2025 closing notices for Hialeah and Medley
  • 225 Tampa jobs in NewSouth Window Solutions' November 2024 layoff notice
  • 120 to 150 hourly Venice workers cut with the D shift, by employees' estimates
  • 204 jobs in PGT's 2020 notice for closing its Orlando plant
  • 480 Florida and North Carolina jobs cut in PGT's four 2009 restructurings

The most recent PGT Innovations layoff we've found

PGT's second notice to Florida, dated March 31, 2026, said the Medley plant had closed with its staff let go or transferred, and that 31 people were still working at Hialeah, whose separation period it moved to July 16 through July 30, 2026.

What PGT Innovations layoffs have meant for employees

How much warning PGT workers got depended on which plant they worked at. NewSouth's Tampa notice gave about two months, and the Hialeah and Medley letters gave two months or more, but employees' posts quoted by WSLR say the Venice D shift, including its glass, assembly and warehouse workers, learned at a single meeting that their jobs were gone. MITER confirmed the cut without giving a count, US Glass Magazine reported. If you were on that shift, the only payment those posts mention is a year-end bonus, so it's worth getting its amount and payday from the company in writing.

The closings PGT and MITER announced in 2010, 2020 and 2025 each planned to move at least part of the work to another Florida plant, as PGT's 2010 10-K, its April 2020 release and Door and Window Market describe. NewSouth's 2024 Tampa layoff stands apart, because its letter tied the cut to a product line ending, and MITER sold NewSouth itself to Window Nation the following September, Business Observer reported. For someone at a closing plant, the plan to keep the work in Florida can turn a layoff into a choice about following it. Workers who built CGI Sparta or Scout windows, PGT Commercial products or certain WinDoor models were on the lines MITER said would go to Venice and Fort Myers. If you're considering following the work, you can price the move yourself first, because MITER's announcement put no dollar figure on its relocation support.

Hialeah's closing ran long, and its dates moved with it. PGT's first letter expected separations to finish by January 30, 2026; some workers later got notice of a March 30 end, and the March 2026 letter carried the last group into July. Each change came with a new notice and kept people on the job longer than first planned. If you're counting down to a closing date at a PGT plant, it's worth checking each new notice for a changed last day.

The closing letters also spell out what the people at those plants couldn't fall back on. PGT's Hialeah and Medley notices said the workers losing jobs had no union and that the company offered no bumping rights, and NewSouth's letter ruled out bumping as well, so longer service didn't let anyone take a newer colleague's job. PGT has budgeted at least once for pay to stay; its 2020 Orlando plan counted separation and retention-until-closure payments among the closing's cash costs. If a closing at your plant includes pay for staying to the last day, leaving early can cost you that payment, so it's worth knowing which day it's tied to.

MITER tied its January 2025 realignment to integrating PGT, Door and Window Market reported, and unlike the Venice, Tampa, Hialeah and Medley cuts, it wasn't specific to any department, role, location or brand, by MITER's account. At the time, MITER said it was offering support services and resources to the people affected, according to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

The counts in PGT's history come from several kinds of documents. PGT's March 2008 release and 10-K counted its 2007 to 2009 restructurings, Florida notices counted the jobs at Tampa, Hialeah and Medley, MITER gave its January 2025 realignment as percentages, and the Venice range is employees' own estimate. Of those, only the notices give both a plant and a separation window for the jobs they count.

A sourced history of PGT Innovations layoffs

  • September 2025, Hialeah and Medley closings announced

    PGT's notice to Florida listed 382 Hialeah jobs and 60 at Medley and said their operations would move to its other Florida locations. MITER told Door and Window Market the products it kept would be made in Venice and Fort Myers.

  • January 2025, MITER Brands realignment

    People at PGT lost jobs in a realignment MITER said cut roles across its business, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reported. By MITER's count it affected less than 0.5% of the company's workforce and less than 1% of its 2,000 Sarasota County employees.

  • November 2024, Venice D shift cut

    Employees' anonymous posts quoted by WSLR said the whole Venice D shift was cut, an estimated 120 to 150 hourly workers. A MITER statement in US Glass Magazine tied the reduction to forecasted demand in its core markets.

  • November 2024, NewSouth Tampa plant layoff notice

    NewSouth Window Solutions, which US Glass Magazine says PGT bought in 2020, told Florida in a November 2024 letter it planned to lay off 225 Tampa workers from January 18 to February 1, 2025, citing a discontinued product line.

  • April 2020, Orlando plant closing announced

    PGT said in an April 2020 release it would stop production in Orlando that June, moving WinDoor assembly to Venice and Eze-Breeze to Tampa. It expected $3.0 million to $3.4 million in cash costs, mainly separation and retention pay, rent and equipment moves.

  • December 2010, Salisbury, North Carolina, consolidation into Venice

    PGT announced it would move its Salisbury operations to Venice by mid-2011, and its 2010 10-K put that year's $2.1 million in consolidation charges mainly on employee separation costs.

  • 2009, four restructurings

    PGT announced restructurings in January, March, September and November 2009 that cut about 480 jobs across its Florida and North Carolina plants, with $5.4 million in charges mainly for employee separation costs, its 2010 10-K shows.

  • March 2008, restructuring

    PGT cut about 17% of its workforce on March 4, and with earlier actions and attrition, staff would be about 40% below its September 2006 peak, the company's March 2008 release said.

What to do if you're laid off from PGT Innovations

PGT Innovations layoff and severance questions

What severance has PGT Innovations given laid-off employees?

Employee separation costs were the main expense in PGT's 2008 and 2009 restructurings and its 2010 Salisbury consolidation, by its 2010 10-K, and those are company-level charges with no per-person terms. Workers cut from the Venice D shift in November 2024 told of a promised year-end bonus and no severance in posts that WSLR quoted. For the 2025 Hialeah and Medley closings, MITER announced transition help, job fairs and resume and interview workshops.

Can laid-off PGT workers transfer to another plant?

For the Hialeah and Medley closings, PGT's notice to Florida said the company would help every affected employee apply for positions open at its other locations, and MITER said it aimed to keep as many as it could, with relocation support for anyone moving beyond commuting distance. By March 2026, PGT told the state, Medley's workers had been let go or transferred. Venice D shift workers wrote, in posts WSLR quoted, that there was no offer of work elsewhere in the company.

How many WARN notices has PGT Innovations filed?

PGT Industries has three rows in our WARN tracker, all Florida filings, the 2020 Orlando closing for 204 jobs and two September 2, 2025 notices for Hialeah and Medley covering 442 jobs together. Its March 31, 2026 second notice for Hialeah is attached to those two in Florida's records, so it doesn't add a row. NewSouth's Tampa notice isn't counted because MITER sold NewSouth in 2025, Business Observer reported, and the Venice cut had no notice, which a spokesman said wasn't required, per the Herald-Tribune.