At the presentation of the annual report on Tuesday, the group made top clear that VW is more than ever the focus is on electromobility. A day later, it becomes clear what this means for the employees.
Production line at the VW plant in Wolfsburg: For E-cars to be used 30 percent less people
The Volkswagen group wants to emphasise its core brand, VW passenger Cars in the next five years in addition to 5000 to 7000 to be degraded by a socially acceptable age part-time. As the company announced in Wolfsburg, Germany, want VW routine to automate tasks and so on, until 2023 costs in the amount of 5.9 billion euros.
As a result, the company wants to dig, to invest in electric mobility, digitisation and new mobility services. The expenditure for such topics in the future, to rise until 2023 19 billion, eight billion more than originally planned.
The jobs will be eliminated in the management. Including the technical development of the VW employees in indirect areas of approximately 54 000 employees. The General material costs and personnel needed in the administration should be reduced to 15 per cent, it was said by the company. In the next three years, in the core brand for the day to day business competent Manager Ralf Brandstätter sees the potential for elimination of the Bodies overall, even with around 11,000 Jobs.
Another Savings Program
Already since a few days, a further staff cuts at the VW brand in the space. In addition, Volkswagen intends to reduce the variety of models and material costs. With the current austerity programmes, VW have already achieved a lot, said Brandstätter. “But we need to do significantly more in order to cope with the upcoming challenges also in the period after 2020.”
In the fall of 2016, the company had agreed with the workers already have a large savings programme, which runs until the end of 2020. It provides for the global reduction of 30,000, with 23,000 of them in Germany. In return, 9000 jobs in the future will emerge for areas such as software development, redundancies are excluded until 2025.
Less labour inspectorates costs in E-car
At the presentation of the annual report for the group on Tuesday the group had made-in-chief Herbert Diess already clear that a further reduction of staff is necessary. The development costs for E-cars to be high, at the same time, this could be with less effort made – and thus less staff. “It is hard to create, just with attrition and retirement,” had This granted.
Redundancies to avoid the Management by the fact that the number of electric cars is screwed rapidly. “The more successful we are as a company, with the E-mobility, the more secure the jobs are in the long term,” said Diess. To the truth but also that an electric car leave with about 30 percent less work than a nitro.
The works Council for the Whole of the preceding, however, is unplanned and chaotic. He accuses Diess, the staff on the way in electric mobility and digitisation, not to take. A socially responsible reduction of personnel was provided to the works Council in the past, never in the way, – said the speaker. This, however, had to be prudently operated.
bri/hb/gri (dpa, afp)