Honda of Canada Manufacturing

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Honda Canada Alliston Plants are Honda Canada's major production facilities in Canada.

1 Production Details
2 Facility
3 Criticisms
4 References

[edit] Production Details

Currently,^{[date needed]} the two main plants have 4200 employees and produce about 390,000 cars per year. A stamping and Bumper painting plant was added in 1989. Honda's second plant in Alliston began production in 1998, originally building Honda Odyssey vans. Production of the Odyssey in Canada stopped in 2004 to make room for the Ridgeline.^{[citation needed]}

Plant 1

Honda Civic coupe and sedan
Acura CSX

Plant 2

Honda Ridgeline(moved to Alabama in order to increase the production of Civic sedans)
Honda Pilot SUV
Acura MDX
Honda Civic sedan only (began production in Plant 2 in April 2007 to keep up with demand)

In May 2006, Honda announced it would build a CAD$154 million engine plant in Alliston, Ontario, to supply engines for plant 1.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Facility

The Honda of Canada Manufacturing (HCM) plant in Alliston is built on 450 acres (1.8 km²) of land and has its own recreation centre with a full NHL-sized hockey arena, physical fitness areas, a baseball diamond, and volleyball and tennis courts.

[edit] Criticisms

The working environment at this facility has been put into question by multiple sources.^{[citation needed]} Typical employees including administrative, information technology and executives are required to wear white uniforms that are provided.^{[citation needed]} Other than management level employees, most are not permitted access to the internet including IT employees.^{[citation needed]} Making personal phone calls or emails however brief is grounds for level 1 discipline (Coaching).^{[citation needed]} Pay phones in the main lobby are available for those wishing to make a phone call on their break or lunch hour. Employees are also advised not to leave the premises during breaks or lunch hour but no discipline has been given for doing so to our knowledge. Employees are permitted to "order in" food and have it delivered to the Lobby.

On March 17, 2005 an IT employee named Kevin Keays was awarded $500,000 (Canadian dollars) after suing Honda Canada Manufacturing for wrongful dismissal. This was in response to being dismissed after apparently being "burnt out" from the stressful work environment that existed. His claim was that he was suffering from Chronic Fatigue Disorder and that Honda Canada Manufacturing was unresponsive in allowing any accommodations to his illness. However, the award was reduced to $100,000 on appeal: Keays v. Honda Canada Inc., 2006 CanLII 33191 (ON C.A.). Both parties were granted leave to appeal to the Supreme Court: see 2007 ONCA 564 (CanLII).