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04/16/20 11:04 PM
04/18/20 4:56 PM
The world’s biggest carmaker by sales is issuing new manuals to its global workforce, detailing a list of 100 workplace changes designed to minimize the risk of coronavirus infections. Workers will be asked to take their temperatures from home each morning, change into their factory-floor uniforms before arriving and bring their own lunch. Carpooling is out.
…Volkswagen will institute buffer periods between changing shifts to allow one group of workers to leave before the next shift comes in, to minimize interactions. Workers will enter in a single file, keeping a distance of 6 feet between each other.
Inside the factory, routes have been remapped to add space between workers. Wherever the required 6-foot separation cannot be guaranteed, employees will have to wear facemasks. Workers will also no longer pass material or tools by hand. They will need to set things down so others can pick them up at a safe distance.
…Volkswagen plants would begin operating at about 30% capacity, gradually building up over weeks…
…The first European Volkswagen plant to resume operation will be its factory in Bratislava, Slovakia [on Monday]… Then, on Thursday, Volkswagen’s electric-vehicle plant in Zwickau…is set to go back online and begin filling orders for the first 37,000 ID.3 all-electric cars. The company’s main plant in Wolfsburg is set to resume operation on April 27.
Volkswagen plants in Latin America, Russia and Chattanooga, Tenn., are expected to follow and will also adopt the new antivirus regime.
04/27/20 7:02 PM
Most South Carolina employees will get back to work on May 3 or May 4, Boeing said in a statement Monday. The return includes all operations that were temporarily suspended April 8 because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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