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What Trulieve layoffs have meant for employees

Trulieve's line about the last wave covered the day it was spoken. The WCTV story carrying it named Gadsden, Jefferson and Madison counties and said this wave of layoffs "will be the only wave." The later WARN notice was for Lee, and Madison County's 2020 mitigation plan lists Lee among the county's municipalities, so the line didn't hold even in a county it named. If you're hearing that a round is the last one, this history is a reason to keep your resume current and your pay and benefits records handy, whatever the reassurance.

Trulieve told WCTV it couldn't give out numbers for North Florida, so the annual reports are where the scale shows. Trulieve reported over 9,000 employees at the end of 2021 and over 5,400 at the end of 2023, roughly 3,600 fewer. The two 2023 rounds with an official size, counting the California store, total 283 jobs. These are net counts, and the two filings don't say how much of the decline was layoffs, other departures or market exits, so the gap measures scale, never a layoff total. That same 10-K credits about $36.3 million in sales and marketing savings to "reduced headcount and redundant positions and reduced costs related to integration and share-based compensation," which mixes payroll with other costs.

If you're offered a transfer, the wording of two Trulieve statements is worth knowing. The North Florida statement in WCTV's December 20 story and the McKeesport statement in TribLive both said employees were offered severance packages where transfers were "not feasible or accepted." That wording suggests that in those two rounds, turning down a transfer didn't by itself end the severance offer. Those statements describe two rounds in 2022, not a standing policy. If a transfer and a package are both on offer, it's worth setting the new site's commute and schedule against the money.

The Clearwater call center shows what a paper trail changes. In February 2023 people there learned of the cuts through firings the company wouldn't discuss, by the employee accounts in the Tallahassee Democrat. In 2026 a letter to Florida gave a layoff date and job titles and said each person would get a written 60-day notice. If you worked in that unit, the letter's line that staff would stay employed "with all rights and benefits associated with employment" through the layoff date gives you something firm to hold a last paycheck or benefits statement against. The letter also called the layoff permanent, which is the word to plan around if you were hoping for a recall.

Massachusetts shows how a company-wide timeline can differ from a personal one. Trulieve described a wind-down there running through the end of 2023, NBC Boston reported, while the Holyoke letter Cultivated described set July 31 as the termination deadline for those workers. If you receive a letter with a personal termination date, it may be worth using that date when comparing a company announcement with your own pay and benefits timeline.

Practical help on record came from outside the company. After the North Florida cuts, CareerSource Capital Region ran an open house in Quincy with resume writing, job referrals and mock interviews, the December 20 WCTV story reported, with partner agencies on hand for reemployment assistance, SNAP and TANF applications. Fewer than a dozen people came, and CareerSource set two more job fairs for January 2023. That help didn't run through Trulieve, which is worth remembering if a severance question is still open. Benefits rules differ by state, so we keep them on separate pages for Florida, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.

A sourced history of Trulieve layoffs

• March 2026, Clearwater call center layoff notice

  Trulieve told Florida in a March 2 letter that its Clearwater Call Center unit faced a permanent mass layoff from business restructuring, covering 49 phone and nine chat representatives. The letter set a May 1 layoff date and said the unit had no union and no bumping rights.

• June 2023, Massachusetts wind-down and Holyoke letter

  Trulieve said it would shut its Framingham, Northampton and Worcester dispensaries, its Holyoke plant and a Grover Beach, California, store, affecting 128 employees, NBC Boston reported. Cultivated said around 90 Holyoke workers got a June 1 letter saying their jobs were to end by July 31.

• May 2023, Lee notice in Madison County

  Trulieve filed a May 15 notice, our WARN tracker shows, for 155 jobs in Lee, a Madison County town, with a July 14 effective date.

• February 2023, Clearwater call center firings

  Employees at a Clearwater call center said they'd been fired, one on February 16, the Tallahassee Democrat reported, and a spokesperson declined comment. One employee's unverified social media post put the cut at around 50 people, including supervisors, leads and quality assurance.

• December 2022, McKeesport growing facility cuts

  Trulieve laid off workers at its McKeesport, Pennsylvania, growing facility and called the cuts the "result of greater efficiencies," TribLive reported. It said people it couldn't move, or who didn't accept a transfer, were offered severance packages.

• November 2022, North Florida layoffs

  Dozens of layoffs hit facilities in Gadsden, Jefferson and Madison counties, on or about November 29 by a later suit's account, WCTV reported. Trulieve cited greater efficiencies and redundant positions after its 2021 merger with Harvest Health and Recreation.

What to do if you're laid off from Trulieve

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Trulieve's biggest hubs: Florida, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania. Somewhere else? Every state is here.
• Apply for financial and hardship assistance. Unemployment supplements income, but food benefits, health coverage and utility help are often available as well. Here's some of what Trulieve's hub states run: Florida, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and every other state is here.
• Mind the health insurance window. Losing coverage opens a 60-day special enrollment period, and an ACA plan usually beats unsubsidized COBRA. Compare your options before the employer coverage lapses, and read how the COBRA clocks run if you are weighing it seriously.
• Get your real runway number. Severance plus savings divided by reality. The calculator takes five minutes.
• Know which clocks are already running. Severance review windows, COBRA election, visa grace periods, and 401(k) rollovers all run on federal deadlines that started at termination. All five deadlines are here.