Opel plant in Eisenach
The traditional carmaker suffers again from weak demand.
Rüsselsheim, Eisenach Due to weak demand, the car maker plans Opel in his Eisenacher plant for October on a larger scale short-time work. According to information from the Mainzer publishing group VRM, the employees of both shifts will only need 8 out of 21 working days on the tapes during the month. Short-time work prevails on 13 working days, as the newspapers report in their Wednesday issues. For this period, employees receive short-time allowance from the Federal Employment Agency, which must first approve the instrument.
The corporate headquarters in Rüsselsheim did not want to confirm the information specifically. Of course, one adjusts the production planning regularly, but would not comment on details of internal planning, said a spokesman.
Already immediately after the plant holidays in summer, short-time work was announced in Eisenach. In addition, according to VRM information, production speed was reduced for the same workforce. Instead of 37, only 30 are running every hour OpelCars from the band. Similar measures were also taken at the Rüsselsheim and Gliwice plants.
The Eisenach assembly plant with its approximately 1800 employees is facing a change, It is to be converted under the direction of the new Opel owner PSA of the production of the small car models Corsa and Adam on the SUV Grand Land. The Corsa will in future be built only in the Spanish Zaragoza, while the Adam media reports that could leak in May,
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