Coronavirus/ Layoff

Indiana Unemployment FAQ

Temporary Layoff & Enroll in GM (ANS) Alerts

3/20/2020 NOTICE OF TEMPORARY LAYOFF To: All Fort Wayne Assembly Hourly Employees Effective Monday March 23rd, active hourly employees will be placed on a temporary lay off. The temporary layoff is being handled on a week to week basis. At this time your return to work date is Monday March 30th. Employees who have been notified by their supervisor to maintain critical operations and repairs will continue to report as instructed. We will continue to notify you as additional information becomes available. Click link to learn how to sign up for GM (ANS) Automated Notification System

Bargaining Committee Report (UPDATE 1)

The State of Indiana and most surrounding states require your employer to give you a return to work date. I coordinated this yesterday with labor relations because they were not aware of their obligation. We are not your employer that is why we can’t inform you first. It has now been sent out on General Motors ANS Alerts. If you have not received it your return to work date for the first week is MARCH 30th 2020. We will continue to coordinate this with the company so that each week you will have an accurate return date while filing for unemployment. Do not apply before March 22nd 2020. Please pass this on and if you have not enrolled in our new STAY UP TO DATE texting system, get with it! We apologize that some of this info got out late. You have to realize that GM changed direction 5 or 6 different times in the last two days. That is why some locals had to put retractions out because the company changed positions between Thursday night and Friday morning. We appreciate your patience and professionalism throughout these trying times. We are strong and we will survive

FWA Temporary Suspension of Operations

March 19, 2020 (10:15 a.m.) - Fort Wayne Assembly Team, the decision has been made to temporarily suspend operations at the end of 2nd shift, Friday, March 20, 2020. • Our body shop will begin to strip out at approximately 8pm this evening, and the remaining shops thereafter. • All employees are asked to empty their lockers and refrigerators and take personal items home. • This will be a cold shutdown. You will be notified well in advance when operations are scheduled to resume. These notifications will be distributed via GM’s Automated Notification System (ANS) and the Fort Wayne Assembly Employee Hotline (1-855-313-9700). o Updates will be published via ANS and on the Hotline beginning Wednesday, March 25, 2020 at 5pm. o We will update these messages as information becomes available. • A small group of employees will remain on site to maintain critical operations. • We know there are many questions regarding employee pay during this shutdown. We will communicate answers when we have them. Thank you for your support and flexibility as we all continue to work through this difficult situation.

Statement from FCA: Ceasing production at plants in North America

General Motors to Temporarily Suspend Production

DETROIT – Today, General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) confirmed it will begin a systematic orderly suspension of manufacturing operations in North America due to market conditions and to deep clean facilities and continue to protect people. The suspension will last until at least March 30. Production status will be reevaluated week-to-week after that.