The savings program for car maker Daimler will cost in the next three years, thousands of jobs. Deleted be at least 10’000. It was a low five-digit number, said staff, Board of management Wilfried Porth on Friday.

Above all, Daimler wants to Make released not nachbesetzen, the old-age part-time workers should be extended, and administrative staff in Germany, severance payments will be offered. Redundancies are excluded at the German sites until the end of 2029 – it remains.

CEO Ola Källenius had announced in the middle of the month, the group saved around 1.4 billion Euro in personnel costs and one in ten of the Management office, but no Details mentioned. “With the now, together with the works Council agreed vertices to streamline the company, we can achieve this goal by the end of 2022,” stressed staff, Board of management Wilfried Porth in the message. “We will implement the measures as socially responsible a manner as possible.” Exactly how the vertices are to be implemented, would be prepared in the coming weeks.

Daimler also announced to extend expiring contracts of temporary workers in the administration only in a very restrictive manner. Similarly, economically, the group intends to deal in the future with 40-hours-contracts-and thus save costs. In addition, the carmaker wants to bring the employees with incentives to reduce their working hours.

The project, not to take on possible wage increases in the metal and electrical industry in the coming year, in the case of Daimler, by contrast, is according to the works Council from the table. “Employees must not be in the bag seized”, – said the Deputy of the General works Council Chairman Ergun Lümali. “We want to lead not a pure debate on heads – the focus of the reduction in personnel costs must be on the improvement of processes and procedures.” The reduction of capacities should not lead to a concentration of Performance.

Daimler has to contend with a Plethora of problems, which the car maker in 2018 – days of Dieter Zetsche – a tart profit slump brought him, then in the middle of this year, even temporarily, into the red Numbers are pressed. So, the group must make back billion for its Diesel-Contaminated sites, while at the same time, the ramp-up of electric car production and the development of future sindlingen technologies such as Autonomous huge sums of money. To production problems and a weak paragraph that came just a few months ago slowly getting back up to speed. (Dec/sda)

Created: 29.11.2019, 14:56 PM