GM recall probe prompts executive departures

[unhappycamper]

http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/05/news/companies/gm-recall-probe/



CEO Mary Barra

GM recall probe prompts executive departures
By Chris Isidore and Poppy Harlow @CNNMoney June 5, 2014: 7:39 AM ET

"More than a dozen" employees are departing General Motors as a result of the probe into its ignition switch recall linked to at least 13 deaths, a company source has told CNN.

"It's not layoffs," said the source. "They did something wrong."

That internal probe, conducted by former federal prosecutor Anton Valukas, is due to be released at 9 a.m. ET by GM CEO Mary Barra. Names of the executives and engineers who will be leaving the company were not immediately available. Valukas will not attend the presentation of the report.

Barra is due to start with an address to GM employees and then go before reporters to answer questions on the report. She'll later answer questions from stock analysts.

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. One exec. was merely re-assigned in May.

Bet he is feeling relieved.


(Reuters) -

General Motors Co (GM.N) has reassigned an executive who dealt with U.S. safety regulators probing defective ignition switches linked to at least 13 deaths, as part of a restructuring meant to improve vehicle safety, the automaker said on Monday.

M. Carmen Benavides, director of field product investigations and evaluations and an executive who has worked closely with U.S. safety regulators in Washington, has been shifted to a new job in the Detroit automaker's safety group, GM spokesman Greg Martin said.

Benavides, who is now director of safety improvement initiatives, was replaced by Brian Latouf.

Benavides' name is on many documents in which GM responded to questions from the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, including several in the recall of the faulty ignition switches. She also received an email last summer in which a top NHTSA official called GM "slow to communicate" and "slow to act" on details and recalls.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/12/us-gm-recall-exec-idUSBREA4B0EW20140512

[Fuddnik]

2. They should re-assign them to Leavenworth.