Auto supplier Mahle
The agreement is effective from August 1, 2023 and runs until December 31, 2025.
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The automotive supplier Mahle has promised its employees in Germany secure jobs until the end of 2025. Until then, redundancies for operational reasons are excluded. This emerges from a future collective agreement that the company, the Mahle central works council and IG Metall have agreed on.
As they announced on Wednesday, future concepts are to be developed for the individual locations. The agreement also provides, among other things, for qualification measures for the approximately 10,500 employees in Germany.
“With this groundbreaking agreement, we can now actively start designing individual and urgently needed future concepts for our local plants,” said Mahle boss Arnd Franz. Because Mahle is “fully on course for transformation”, with the German locations facing particularly great challenges. The agreement is effective from August 1, 2023 and runs until December 31, 2025.
The chairman of Mahle’s general works council, Boris Schwürz, was also satisfied: The collective agreement is a new approach so that Mahle remains competitive and employment is secured. Schwürz called on all locations to deal intensively with the target processes and to design future concepts.
Many employees of automotive suppliers fear for their jobs because of the transformation to electromobility. Because numerous jobs are still dependent on the business model with the combustion engine. Industry leader Bosch only concluded a similar future collective agreement at the beginning of July and thus ruled out redundancies until the end of 2027. This affected almost 80,000 employees in Germany.
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