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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.3 - Manufacture Of Parts And Accessories For Motor Vehicles
1,205 - 2,860 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
20 February 2024
Employment effect (start)
20 February 2024
Foreseen end date
31 December 2025
Description
As announced on 20 February 2024, the German automotive supplier Continental will be cutting approximately 2,860 jobs in Germany by the end of 2025 due to internal restructuring.
The restructuring is part of a worldwide restructuring programme which will affect 7,150 jobs which is about 3% of Continental’s entire worldwide workforce. According to a Continental spokesperson, approximately 40% of the affected jobs are in Germany – thus 2,860.
Continental intends to be more efficient and competitive on the world market, making a job reduction inevitable, according to the company. Continental emphasises that the reduction will be as socially acceptable as possible and will be achieved via natural fluctuation and voluntary programmes. Affected units are administration with 5,400 jobs in danger of being cut as well as the research and development department with estimated 1,800 cuts. How those numbers are distributed in Germany is unclear as of today.
Current available information details that 630 jobs in Frankfurt will be cut, as well as 350 jobs in Regensburg and 225 in Ingolstadt. Further information on the distribution of cuts is estimated to become available soon. In 2023, Continental cut jobs in Germany at its site in Gifhorn Continental-2024-DE.
20 February 2024: Bayrischer Rundfunk (online) (www.br.de)
Citation
Eurofound (2024), Continental, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 200876, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/200876.
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