the Board of the company and the company's management AUDI AG agreed to cut up to 9,500 jobs by 2025. This is stated in the published on Tuesday, the corporate "transformation plan Audi".
the Layoffs will happen on the demographic curve - in particular, due to staff turnover and new attractive programme of early retirement, the company said.
However, Audi will continue the recruitment of new employees in the coming years and improve pension plan 2021, providing for additional pension contributions in the amount of 50 million euros per year for this purpose.
the Company plans to create up to 2,000 new expert positions in the areas of electric mobility and digitalization. These appointments will be made according to the internal principle to external candidates, said Peter Mauch, Chairman of the joint industrial Council of AUDI AG.
a Key component of the plan is economical and promising use of production capacity.
According to the company, in Ingolstadt will be a planned annual capacity of the plant to 450,000 cars in Neckarsulm on 225,000 vehicles with optimized production.
Long-term perspective on the future of the guaranteed electrical models that will be built at both plants in the future, said Audi.
Earlier it was reported that the owner of the brand Mercedes-Benz Daimler plans to lay off workers from their factories to save a billion euros by 2022. The company plans to reduce the number of workers by at least 1000 people.
in addition, massive layoffs announced another German manufacturer of components Continental, which plans to cut by 2028 5 500 jobs after it was accepted the decision on liquidation of business associated with petrol and diesel engines.
