Tampa-based eye care practice cutting 116 jobs in Florida

An optometric company with a corporate headquarters in Tampa is cutting 116 jobs across Florida, including at least more than a dozen locations in the region.

Global Care Optometry — which has offices in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa and Ohio — announced the layoffs at 43 locations in the Sunshine State in a July 1 letter to the Florida Department of Commerce required by the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.

“These job losses are due to a contract loss,” Angela Dodge, human resource and compliance manager for Global Care Optometry, says in the WARN letter.