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        home > news > Safety > GM Asking Salaried Employees to Report Vaccination Status

        GM Asking Salaried Employees to Report Vaccination Status

        Company says it’s using information to update safety protocols.

        Michael Strong
        Michael Strong , Managing Editor
        Aug. 26, 2021

        General Motors is asking its salaried workforce if they are vaccinated in an attempt to update the company’s COVID-related safety protocols. 

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        GM is asking salaried employees to reveal if they have been vaccinated for COVID.

        Thus far, the company is the only U.S.-based automaker engaging in this type of information collection. GM officials told TheDetroitBureau.com there isn’t an end date for getting the information and declined to elaborate on what happens if an employee declines to meet the requirement, saying it is “an HR matter.”

        GM isn’t requiring employees to be vaccinated but has encouraged its salaried and hourly workers to do so. Stellantis had not yet returned calls and emails from TheDetroitBureau about the topic at the time of publication.

        “In response to increasing COVID-19 positive case rates across the U.S., and GM’s ongoing commitment to employees’ safety, the company earlier this month implemented an expanded vaccination status reporting process that was mandatory for all U.S. salaried employees,” GM said in a statement emailed to TheDetroitBureau.com. 

        “We gathered this information via a confidential online tool. The reporting of our employees’ vaccination status is helping GM Medical assess the overall immunity of our employee population and determine when GM should relax or strengthen certain COVID-19 safety protocols as recommended by the CDC and OSHA, such as mask wearing, physical distancing and facility occupancy rates. It will also help influence future public health decisions the company may need to make to continue to protect our employees.”

        GM follows the guidelines set by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Administration.

        Orion worker assembles 2022 Bolt
        GM is requiring employees to wear masks in all facilities. However, hourly workers aren’t required to report their vaccination status.

        Collecting data

        It’s unclear what happens if employees decline to answer the question. GM has not yet responded to TheDetroitBureau.com. It appears the automaker isn’t asking contract employees to report the information, according to one source who declined to be named.

        Additionally, the company hasn’t yet reached out to the UAW in an attempt to collect similar information. UAW President Ray Curry told Reuters no automaker has discussed the possibility of mandating hourly workers to report their vaccination status.

        The UAW, like GM as well as Ford and Stellantis, has encouraged workers to get the vaccination, but it is not required. Curry supports collecting information about the vaccination status of UAW workers on a voluntary basis only, which GM does, the company told TheDetroitBureau.com.

        However, if GM or any automaker wanted to make it mandatory, it would need to be part of a bargaining process, he told Reuters.

        Some may know already

        UAW's Ray Curry clapping
        UAW President Ray Curry says he favors the voluntary collection of vaccination information of UAW workers.

        One Ford employee told TheDetroitBureau.com the company hasn’t asked specifically about it. However, when workers go into a Ford facility, they are required to fill out a screening form. 

        It includes standard questions asking about exposure to people who have been diagnosed with COVID, experiencing COVID-like symptoms recently, etc. The employee noted beginning in May, the company added a question asking if the employee filling out the form had received the vaccination. They added there was an option to decline to answer.

        The formed is tied to a QR code and the employee receives an email confirmation. So collecting the information wouldn’t be difficult, but Ford officials say they aren’t keeping the information.

        “We do not receive or retain the responses in connection with any contact information or personal information. It has only been used to aggregate vaccination information with the purpose of helping to inform our protocols,” the company said in a statement emailed to TheDetroitBureau.com.

        “Our current statement on vaccines hasn’t changed — Ford strongly encourages all employees who are eligible to get vaccinated. We believe the vaccine plays a critical role in combating the virus and have designated some roles where we require the vaccine. We are currently assessing whether we need to expand the requirement.”

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        4 responses to “GM Asking Salaried Employees to Report Vaccination Status”

        1. Dennis Burke says:
          August 29, 2021 at 9:07 am

          Requiring vaccinations is a step too far. I am vaccinated, but appreciate how others feel about putting drugs in their bodies. They also may have bad experience with medications. The vaccine doesn’t prevent you from getting the virus or spreading it. It only reduces the severity of illness. Monoclonal antibodies accomplish the same thing. If vaccines are required for COVID, where does it stop? Does that mean ALL vaccinations will be required in the future? for the “PUBIC GOOD”? Sounds like we are going more toward being told what to do. And I voted for Biden.

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          1. Paul A. Eisenstein says:
            August 30, 2021 at 7:40 am

            Dennis, let me copy a comment I put elsewhere on this thread:

            It’s interesting that we now associate the choice of getting vaccinated with “freedom.” When I was in school you either were vaccinated or you stayed home. And the courts upheld that, as well as mask mandates. (The latter was upheld by the SCOTUS as early as 1905.) By mandating vaccinations we effectively have eliminated such horrid diseases as Smallpox, polio, measles, whooping cough and others. The fact that a few of those have reappeared is linked to anti-vaxxing. And those that choose to not vax have zero science behind them. Their claims simply don’t stand up to scientific scrutiny. At the same time, they wind up bringing back into the population diseases that were effectively eradicated. Freedom is a nice word, but it is increasingly dissociated from the other word our founding fathers found equally important: responsibility.

            Paul E.

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        2. Marina Teramond @ NMPL says:
          August 29, 2021 at 2:54 pm

          Of course COVID-19 has brought global changes in our world and life, many of which are not positive. Nowadays people are divided into those who want to be vaccinated and those who are against it. But I have heard about a company like GM that collects information about vaccination status for the first time. To tell the truth, I support the position of this company and think that it can only benefit. I’m really impressed by the fact that GM doesn’t oblige their employees to be vaccinated and gives them the right of choice, not depriving them of freedom. I think it is really valuable and not every organization will be ready to make such a decision caring about the workers. It is the best strategy to collect the reporting of the employees’ vaccination status and based on this draw appropriate conclusions, making the right necessary decisions. But, I can’t deny the fact that vaccination plays a crucial role in fighting with COVID-19 and I agree with “Ford ” that it has a huge importance. But despite this I think that any person needs to have the right to choose.

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          1. Paul A. Eisenstein says:
            August 30, 2021 at 7:40 am

            It’s interesting that we now associate the choice of getting vaccinated with “freedom.” When I was in school you either were vaccinated or you stayed home. And the courts upheld that, as well as mask mandates. (The latter was upheld by the SCOTUS as early as 1905.) By mandating vaccinations we effectively have eliminated such horrid diseases as Smallpox, polio, measles, whooping cough and others. The fact that a few of those have reappeared is linked to anti-vaxxing. And those that choose to not vax have zero science behind them. Their claims simply don’t stand up to scientific scrutiny. At the same time, they wind up bringing back into the population diseases that were effectively eradicated. Freedom is a nice word, but it is increasingly dissociated from the other word our founding fathers found equally important: responsibility.

            Paul E.

            Reply

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