Cannabis company cuts 211 jobs in Hillsborough, Polk

An Atlanta cannabis company eliminated 211 jobs in early July after shutting facilities in Lakeland and Wimauma in Hillsborough County.

The company, Parallel, writes in a letter sent to meet federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act requirements that the workers were put on paid administrative leave July 6 and paid through their termination dates.

That date was not given, but in the letter the company says the employees would be laid off July 6 or “during the 14-day period beginning on that date.”…

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