NFI announces two-week shutdown
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This article was published 11/12/2020 (2127 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Winnipeg bus maker, NFI Group, will shut down production for two weeks starting Dec. 21 as it deals with COVID-19 related absenteeism.
The company said that since March, 39 of its Winnipeg employees have tested positive out of a workforce in the city of more than 2,400.
Janice Harper, the company’s executive vice-president of human resources, said, “Increased absenteeism has impacted production. Where necessary and after exhausting all other options, we will undertake short-term idling on a facility-by-facility basis.”
The company has continued operating and while production rates have been impacted by absenteeism, CEO Paul Soubry said, it has also been affected by its customers relative ability to accept finished buses.
He said the company struck an Emergency Response Task Force in February to oversee its global COVID-19 action plan, which continues to meet multiple times per week.
Harper said, “We are doing everything possible and in accordance with local mandates and guidance, to keep our people and our facilities as safe as we can – and will continue to undertake whatever action is necessary.”
The company’s Winnipeg plants typically shut down for one week at the end of the year and one week in the summer.
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