BURTON, MI – Four employees at General Motors Customer Care and Aftersales facility in Burton have tested positive for COVID-19.

Jim Cain, a GM spokesman, confirmed the information but was unable to provide dates on when the four employees tested positive or their conditions.

Of the four employees, Cain said three were off work before any symptoms began.

“In the fourth case, they just started feeling not very well,” he said.

The fourth employee is known to have only been in contact with one other person in the facility at the corner of Genesee and Davison roads, who has self-quarantined.

Precautions are in place for employees, Cain said, including physical distancing, disinfecting, hand washing areas, the use of masks, and temperature screening prior to entering the facility.

“The work they are doing is essential,” he added.

Workers at the Burton facility were asked to decide on March 20 whether to move to a temporary layoff or continue working voluntarily during the COVID-19 outbreak.

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Some of the company’s larger facilities of that type are in Willow Run; Ypsilanti; the Burton plant, which opened just last year and employs approximately 1,200; and Swartz Creek, which employs about 600.

The Burton plant represented GM’s largest single investment in a U.S. warehousing and logistics facility in nearly 40 years, company officials said during a 2019 groundbreaking for the new facility. The plant was expected to process 120 million service parts annually.

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