The Supreme Court of Canada has overturned a lower court's decision to award a former Honda employee thousands of dollars in punitive damages for being fired without cause.
In a 7-2 decision, the top court on Friday also reduced the amount of severance pay the employee received from 24 months worth of salary to 15 months.
Kevin Keays, who was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome a decade ago, was fired from a Honda assembly plant in Alliston, Ont., in March 2000, after he missed many days of work. MORE
ROANOKE, VA--An automotive components company is planning to open an assembly plant here, creating 60 jobs. The Westport Corp. will invest $3 million to open the 203,000-square-foot plant, which will assemble axles for the Volvo Heavy Truck plant in Dublin. MORE
SAO PAOLO, Brazil--Toyota Motor Corp. plans to invest more than $1 billion to build a new factory in Brazil's Sao Paulo state. The factory will assemble engines and small cars. MORE
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided an Arlington aircraft manufacturing plant Thursday and arrested 32 undocumented workers.
Agents executed the search warrant at Aerospace Manufacturing Technologies, Inc., which supplies parts for both commercial and military aircraft, including the Boeing 737 and 777. MORE
GREENSBURG,IN--Manufacturing jobs are still key to the state's economic success, and there's no better or bigger example of that than the new Honda plant in Greensburg.
The $550 million plant in Decatur County is set to start production of the Honda Civic in the fall.
DEARBORN, MI-Ford CEO Alan Mulally has ordered a downsizing of every one of the automaker’s North American divisions, including manufacturing, product development, engineering, marketing and finance. MORE
ARLINGTON, VA-Despite a softening economy, the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers says its member companies are continuing to invest heavily in the United States. MORE
WASHINGTON-A new government report says the Boeing Co. would have had a "substantial chance" of winning a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract if the service had not made significant errors in awarding the contract to Northrop Grumman. MORE
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