GM Canada Relaxes Mask Mandates In The Workplace
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GM Canada will no longer require employees at its facilities to wear a mask while indoors after the province of Ontario removed the majority of its rules for required masking this week.
GM Canada confirmed on Monday that it had dropped its indoor mask mandate for its employees after the province of Ontario removed its requirements for indoor masking at most public places including retail stores, schools and gyms, among more. While the automaker will no longer require employees to wear masks while on the job site and indoors, its vaccine requirement remains in place. Masks will also still be required at GM Canada operations in Quebec, where leaders have elected to retain a provincial mask mandate.
“We ask that everyone continue to self-evaluate their health and not come to work if they are unwell,” the automaker said in a memo delivered to employees this week.
GM Canada’s largest facility is the Oshawa Assembly plant in Ontario, which employs roughly 1,800 people building the Chevy Silverado and Silverado HD pickups. Other GM Canada facilities include CAMI Assembly in Ingersoll, Ont. and St. Catharines Propulsion in nearby St. Catharines, Ont.
Ford Canada confirmed this week that it had also dropped its mask mandate for employees, although Stellantis Canada has elected to keep the mandate in place until further notice.
GM Canada employees are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to come into work. The vaccine mandate previously caused controversy among the automaker’s Canadian workforce, with many workers expressing frustration that GM does not have the same rules in place for its U.S. facilities. GM Canada required employees to be at least partially vaccinated for COVID-19 by December 12th, 2021 and placed errant employees on unpaid leave.
While GM Canada has dropped its mask mandate, the company says many other so-called “best practices,” will remain in place. This includes making cleaning products readily available to clean
workspaces after use, two-meter space advisory markings at entrances and exits, plexiglass dividers installed in eating areas and cubicles, hand-sanitization stations and posted guidance for proper handwashing.
GM dropped its mask mandate for employees at all of its U.S. facilities earlier this month.
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I have an HD Chev, completion of build over a month ago. Why is it taking so long to deliver it to the dealer, that is 2 hours away?
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Thank you,
Lou
These guys just report on gm news they are not the company. You need to call gm and ask them.
UPDATE: I have learned that GM has downloaded the responsibility of transportation from factory to dealer, directly to the dealer. However, as it pertains to the Oshawa plant, GM has rented many parking lots. They are stock pilling finished/ sold trucks and not releasing the vehicles to the dealer for delivery!! Geeze!!
Let’s go brandeaux!!!! Keeping those masks on as long as inhumanly possible and selling confiscated semi trucks for social justice programs!!!!
STAY SAFE SMILE>??????DDK”
“ GM Canada employees are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to come into work. “
😂 Ya right 😂