Janitorial company lays off 438 Florida employees, 188 locally

GDI Integrated Facilities Services, a Montreal janitorial and cleaning services company, is cutting 1,867 employees in the United States, including 438 across Florida, after its contract to work at some Amazon warehouses was canceled.

The company wrote in a letter to several states to meet federal WARN notice requirements that it was eliminating all employees doing work at 27 Amazon warehouses in 10 states. It did not say in the letter why the contract was lost but said it only affected “certain Amazon locations.”

The company does not disclose how many Amazon warehouse it will still work in or what losing the contract will cost it.