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Duke’s Malibu Lays Off 126 Employees After Mudslide
After months of fighting the effects of fires and mudslides the Malibu landmark, which still hopes to reopen this summer, has laid off the majority of its employees.
The first indications of the news came yesterday after the restaurant showed up on the State of California’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) list, which noted 126 employees were being let go. That led to reports that the Malibu landmark — operating as Duke’s since 1996 and serving meals as the Las Flores Inn, the Sea Lion and Charlie Browns successively since 1915 — was closing. Chavez told NBC4 on February 17 that the Malibu institution, which seemed mostly spared from the wildfire, was “right about at the end of the [smoke] remediation process because of the Palisades Fire ” when the mudflow hit.
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