General Motors, looking to save every penny possible, announced yesterday that it will require salaried workers to take two extra vacation days in December - on top of the automaker’s two-week holiday shutdown. The automaker says that its headquarters and its manufacturing facilities will be fully staffed, but that most of the automaker’s operations will effectively shut down for an extra couple of days.
“We notified the employees last week that in our continued efforts to conserve cash we are asking employees to take two additional vacation days,” GM spokesman Dan Flores told Automotive News. “It’ll give us significant savings in utilities and facility expenses.”
GM’s Warren, Michigan, engineering center, which employs more than 16,000, its Milford, Michigan, proving grounds and its desert proving grounds in Mesa, Arizona, will all be quiet on December 22 and 23.
11/11, 11:11 AM
posted by:
Lariat Luxury Locomotive Liner No.3
Many businesses have been doing this over the years as a means of reducing the carried overheard of unused vacation on their books; some have forced employees to do so (if it doesn’t violate the sate law were they reside). GM is having to do it out necessity, but I guess given GM’s situation that this is news worthy.
11/11, 12:43 PM
posted by:
DrFill
They’ll really cut back when they go from Coronas to Keystones in the Exec meetings
DrFill
11/11, 1:33 PM
posted by:
FSVT_ROCK
I feel sorry for the worker who didn’t do anything to hurts this economic, and havet o suffer all this. They should force CEO and all exec and manager need to take 6 months vacation with out pay, that will save alot more money.