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Airbus employees at the Hamburg plant (2018)
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At Airbus in Germany there will be no redundancies due to the implementation of the planned job cuts.
The company and employee representatives announced this separately.
"The terminations are off the table," announced the group works council.
Offers to leave the company voluntarily were so well received that it was possible to "overcome the biggest crisis in the company's history without layoffs," said the chairman of the group works council, Holger Junge.
The group itself announced that there is currently no need for layoffs in France and Great Britain either.
The works council and IG Metall had agreed with the Airbus management to extend the agreement on short-time working until the end of 2021 to bridge the remaining capacity gaps.
The short-time work allowance will be increased to 82 percent of wages up to the assessment ceiling.
From 2022, a “collective reduction in working hours” will be possible - for entire groups of employees, such as the workforce of a company.
The decision on this lies with the local operating parties.
In the event of job changes within the group, the previous remuneration is guaranteed.
The European aircraft manufacturer is feeling the travel restrictions and the slump in air traffic in the corona crisis.
Airbus has cut aircraft production by 40 percent, last year the group made a loss of 1.1 billion euros.
Airbus had already announced in mid-2020 that it would cut 15,000 jobs worldwide, including a good 5000 of the 50,000 jobs in Germany.
Shortly afterwards, CEO Guillaume Faury had announced in SPIEGEL that because of the short-time work allowance in Germany and France as well as government funding for research in Germany 2000 and in France around 1500 fewer jobs could be lost.
"The extensive use of the volunteer program from the social plan prevented radical deforestation," said the works council.
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