Last Monday, Volkswagen dropped a bombshell
: For the first time in the company’s history, plants in Germany could be closed. In addition, the group has terminated the employment security policy – so not only jobs could be cut, but employees could also be laid off.
The anger in Wolfsburg and other VW plants is huge – and the debate is loud. Because it’s not just about thousands of jobs, it’s also about social peace. And about competitiveness: of VW and at the same time Germany as a location.
Does the crisis at Volkswagen represent everything that is currently going wrong in terms of economic policy in Germany? manager-magazin editor-in-chief Isabell Hülsen and deputy editor-in-chief Michael Freitag talk about this in this podcast.
In the podcast “Das Thema”, editor-in-chief Isabell Hülsen provides information every week about the editorial team’s exclusive findings on a topic that is crucial for the German economy. You can listen to the podcast via manager-magazin.de and on Spotify
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