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Daimler sends thousands of employees on short

2021-04-21T20:37:33.259Z


Microchips are in short supply worldwide, with consequences for the German auto industry as well: employees at two Mercedes plants have to stay at home for at least a week due to missing components.


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Mercedes plant in Bremen (in February): Most of the employees are on short-time work due to a lack of chips

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Due to global delivery bottlenecks for important electronic components, the Daimler auto company is sending thousands of employees back into short-time work at at least two locations for the time being. Most of the employees at the Mercedes plants in Rastatt and Bremen are affected. Upon request, Daimler announced that short-time work had been applied for from this Friday to the end of next week for the employees concerned at both locations.

More than 12,000 people are employed in the Bremen plant and around 6,500 in Rastatt. According to the company, employees in “strategic projects” and so-called basic functions are excluded from short-time working at both locations, including Daimler in the areas of maintenance and supply as well as qualification. First, local media reported on the short-time work plans at the respective locations.

The employees at both plants and at the location in Kecskemét, Hungary, had already been put on short-time work at the beginning of the year due to the chip crisis.

Upon request, Daimler did not comment in detail on the question of whether short-time work was now also planned for other plants.

The only thing that was said was that they were in contact with the semiconductor suppliers and "if necessary" were to adapt the "modes of operation in individual plants."

The situation is volatile, you drive on sight.

The global problems with the replenishment of electronic chips have also forced other car companies to interrupt production for weeks.

Most recently, for example, Volkswagen had sent thousands of employees at the Emden plant on short-time work.

fdi / dpa

Source: spiegel

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