Audi plant Ingolstadt
Termination due to operating conditions is excluded until 2025 due to an agreement.
Munich Four months before the change of boss at Audi is an agreement with the German employees on the savings targets of the Board not in sight. While the management around the outgoing boss Bram Schot Speaking to workers’ representatives about cutting thousands of jobs, the works council insisted on arrangements to divert redundant workers, two Reuters officials told interviewers said Friday.
Audi is struggling with sluggish business, the expensive conversion to electric vehicles and the consequences of the diesel scandal. At the behest of the parent company Volkswagen Schot is to create the basis with a hard austerity course that his successor Markus Duesmann Audi leads back to its former strength. The former BMWManager takes over the tax in April.
According to Der Spiegel, there are 4,000 to 5,000 jobs in the negotiationswho wants to strike Audi. The car manufacturer employs in Germany 61,000 people. The Executive Board has already publicly stated that a reduction through fluctuation and partial retirement is planned.
Termination due to operating conditions is excluded until 2025 due to an agreement. Whether this scheme will be extended, is also in the current discussions, controversial, said the insiders.
Audi rejects a demand from workers to continue the employment guarantee until 2030. The car maker wants to reduce the capacity of its two German plants by 100,000 vehicles.
Company and works council did not comment on the progress of the talks on Friday. Audi merely affirmed that the management is still aiming for completion by the end of the year. Both sides are running out of time: Apart from Schot, the board members Alexander Seitz (Finance) and Wendelin Göbel (Personnel), While Schot and Göbel leave the group, Seitz changes to the sister brand VW,