A few months ago, the pharmaceutical and chemical company Bayer has announced that thousands of jobs will be cut. Now the first Figures for Germany are from well-informed circles, has been leaked.
The pharmaceutical and chemical giant Bayer plans to cut in Germany, probably the 4500. The learned the German press Agency from well-informed circles. As the company had already announced in November, to eliminate a total of 12,000 of 118,000 jobs. Were employed In Germany at the turn of the year to 32,100 employees.
In the group in Germany forced redundancies until the end of 2025 are excluded. In order to reduce the number of digits, set up the company, therefore, severance payments, partial retirement and Disposals due to the usual fluctuation. As the “Rheinische Post” reported, wants to inform the Board of management to the employees on Tuesday in a letter about the planned job reduction. Consequently, 3000 of the 4500 jobs account for so-called cross-section functions, for example in management and IT.
Bayer is in a difficult Phase. The Acquisition of the US competitor Monsanto has become the multibillion-dollar effort with side effects – the company is preparing for a wave of lawsuits because of the controversial Weed killer, glyphosate. The group has many sites, also the business with prescription medicines. Bayer announced the removal, as a consequence, plans to make, in order to save costs and make work processes more efficient.
pgr/ww (dpa, rtr)