Around 20,000 Volkswagen employees have currently agreed to leave the company as part of a vast economic plan negotiated in an attempt to revive the competitiveness of the German manufacturer, a group official said on Tuesday. “The first measures of the agreement [social] In the future of Volkswagen concluded at the end of 2024 “Bear Fruit and we are on the right path,” said Gunnar Kilian, a member of the Volkswagen Board, at a staff meeting at Wolfsburg, the largest factory in the brand.
Volkswagen will eliminate a total of 35,000 jobs in Germany by 2030, or almost 30% of its workforce in the country, without resorting to dry dismissals or factories. Weakened by Chinese competition and a laborious electrical change, the manufacturer was forced to reduce its industrial presence through the RIN, a strong symbol in a loss of speed. This plan, completed after months of tensions with unions, should allow reaching 1.5 billion euros in savings per year through the fall in salary costs and the gradual reduction of the workforce.
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“We accelerate our transformation thanks to the measurable progress made in the production costs in Wolfsburg,” the brand’s historical factory and “the reduction of socially responsible workforce in the six German sites in Volkswagen,” said Gunnar Kilian.
The plan also provides the postponement of certain premiums and a salary frost in 2025 and 2026. Instead, a 5% salary increase will be paid in two stages in a particular fund destined in particular to flexible working time models.
Finally, the employees accepted the end of the production of the thermal golf course in Wolfsburg, which will be transferred to Mexico. The German factory will continue to produce the identification.3 and the elected models born in Cupra.
Source: BFM TV
