{"id":356766,"date":"2026-07-29T21:48:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/356766\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T21:48:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:48:52","slug":"chef-creole-owner-says-loss-of-haitian-tps-workers-is-raising-labor-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/356766\/","title":{"rendered":"Chef Creole owner says loss of Haitian TPS workers is raising labor costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 29, 2026 at 5:11 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0July 29, 2026 at 5:23 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 Businesses that rely on Haitian workers with Temporary Protected Status are beginning to feel the impact as employees leave their jobs, forcing some owners to replace workers while preparing for higher labor costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/07\/29\/dueno-de-chef-creole-dice-que-la-perdida-de-trabajadores-haitianos-con-tps-esta-aumentando-los-costos-laborales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/07\/29\/dueno-de-chef-creole-dice-que-la-perdida-de-trabajadores-haitianos-con-tps-esta-aumentando-los-costos-laborales\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Chef Creole owner Wilkinson Sejour said he recently lost four employees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI said, look, they extended it for three more days,\u201d Sejour said. \u201cThey said, \u2018Boss, the way this administration is doing business, they don\u2019t care about the rule of law. They just care about their agenda. I\u2019m not going to be embarrassed. I\u2019m not going to be looking like a criminal in front of people,\u2019 so they\u2019re out of here. They\u2019re gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sejour, who is Haitian American, said he empathizes with Haitian TPS holders who came to the United States for better opportunities as Haiti continues to deal with crime and instability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHow do you get sent back to a country that the American embassy is saying, \u2018Do not go over there?\u2019\u201d Sejour said. \u201cThis is very contradictory. I don\u2019t understand it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sejour owns seven Chef Creole locations across Miami. He said he is now looking to hire more workers to replace the employees he recently lost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cMy cost of labor is supposed to be at 23\u00bd%, and now it\u2019s going to go to 27% or maybe 28%,\u201d Sejour said. \u201cSo my net profit is going to be smaller. How am I going to mitigate that? My prices on my goods are going to have to go up. Everyone is going to feel it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Magdala Louissaint\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/37f8699f-d0f0-420f-8dfa-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Magdala Louissaint<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Magdala Louissaint joined WPLG in August 2025 and is thrilled to call South Florida home. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 29, 2026 at 5:11 PM Updated:\u00a0July 29, 2026 at 5:23 PM MIAMI \u2014 Businesses that rely on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-356766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}