The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
600 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
15 December 2015
Employment effect (start)
15 December 2015
Foreseen end date
30 June 2016
Description
Volkswagen, Europe's largest producer of cars, announced to dismiss 600 temporary agency workers at their German site in Zwickau by June 2016. The company did not name any reasons, however the works council referred to the new strategy for the Phaeton model and to the emissions scandal as a reason for the job cuts. The bodywork of the model is manufactured in Zwickau and production will probably end in 2016. According to IG Metall, the production at the site will be stopped for four weeks in 2016. Therefore 8,500 employees are forced to take a holiday.
The Volkswagen Group with its headquarters in Wolfsburg is one of the world’s leading automobile manufacturers which currently employs 592,586 employees worldwide.
Sources
15 December 2015: Freie Presse (online)
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Volkswagen, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 86243, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/86243.
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