Business community rallies around laid-off colleagues with job fair

When Laser Spine Institute suddenly collapsed, one of its ex-employees went to bat for its displaced workers.


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Former Laser Spine Institute employees organized a job fair for their recently terminated ex-colleagues at 81 Bay Brewing Co. in south Tampa. Courtesy photo.
Former Laser Spine Institute employees organized a job fair for their recently terminated ex-colleagues at 81 Bay Brewing Co. in south Tampa. Courtesy photo.
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When Tampa-based Laser Spine Institute abruptly went out of business March 1, it left everyone — patients, employees, suppliers and other partners — wondering what went wrong.

CEO Jake Brace recently spoke out about the closure, saying in a statement that the firm’s banks “precipitously and surprisingly made the decision to freeze the company’s accounts and strip the cash out of these accounts.”

 

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