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Ford: The automaker plans job cuts at its second largest German production site in Saarlouis
The US car company Ford is negotiating with employee representatives on a job cuts in the plant Saarlouis. The local production of the model C-Max should be discontinued. Politicians on the Saar are upset. Ford has around 6300 employees in Saarlouis.
The second largest German production site of the automaker Ford Show stock market chart there is a clear reduction in employment. How many jobs have been lost in this traditional factory is not yet certain. Nothing has yet been decided, said a company spokeswoman in Cologne. Politicians on the Saar reacted in dismay.
Ford had losses in the first three quarters of this year in Europe and wanted to return to profitability, said the spokeswoman. The works council is now negotiating the next steps. At a company meeting, employees were informed about these negotiations.
manager-magazin.de had already reported in August that in the German Ford works Job cuts could be imminent, Already in the summer, high-ranking Ford managers were very dissatisfied with the situation in Europe and explained that, for example, built in Germany minivan C-Max does not meet expectations.
Production of the C-Max is expiring
Exactly with this model Ford wants to start now: In the plant Saarlouis with altogether approximately 6300 employees run out in the coming year the production of the C-Max, said the spokeswoman. The model will not be reissued, the sales sink for years. It is conceivable then a company with two instead of three layers as before. One shift corresponds to around 1,600 employees.
400 employees left the company at the end of the year anyway. In addition, 500 temporary work contracts, which had been closed in mid-2018 to launch the new Focus production, will expire in mid-2019. More than 600 additional employees retired in the coming months or could work part-time. “There are socially acceptable solutions found,” said the spokeswoman.
Ford is the second largest Saarland industrial company
In the Saarlouis politicians spoke of a “heavy blow” by the planned staff cuts. As the second largest Saarland industrial company, Ford secures the financial existence of many families. “It is important that those affected get a perspective, through early retirement schemes or training opportunities,” said the industrial policy spokesman of the CDU parliamentary group. Left-wing leader Oskar Lafontaine criticized that the country had made great efforts to improve conditions for the Saarlouis plant. “It is unfortunate that with the termination of 500 temporary employment contracts, the temporary workers, the weakest of the workforce, must be the first to pay the decisions of the Ford Motor Company.”
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