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MAN about to lose jobs: Up to 7,000 jobs in Germany at risk - great concern for Munich as a location

2020-09-12T13:44:57.965Z


The Munich truck manufacturer MAN wants to cut up to 9500 jobs. Up to 7,000 jobs are at risk at the German locations, Steyr, Wittlich and Plauen are threatened with extinction.


The Munich truck manufacturer MAN wants to cut up to 9500 jobs.

Up to 7,000 jobs are at risk at the German locations, Steyr, Wittlich and Plauen are threatened with extinction.

  • The Munich truck manufacturer

    MAN

    wants to reposition itself and save costs

  • On Friday, the group announced the cut of

    9,500 jobs

    .

  • Especially in

    Munich

    ,

    Nuremberg

    and

    Salzgitter

    the tremors are now beginning.

Update from September 11, 11.29 a.m.:

According to an initial overview,

up to 7,000 jobs are on the

verge of the problem at

the truck manufacturer

MAN Truck & Bus

.

This can be seen from the figures available.

After that, the plant in

Steyr

and the

Plauen

and

Wittlich

locations will be

"available", the company announced on Friday.

The company employs a total of around 2,200 people at its Austrian location.

MAN took

over the former Steyr-Puch plant in 1989 and builds trucks of the light and medium-sized series

TGL

and

TGM there

.

In Plauen,

MAN

buses retrofit according to customer requirements.

According to a company spokesman, the company currently employs 140 people in the

former

Neoplan plant

.

In

Wittlich

in Rhineland-Palatinate, the company with its 80 employees has so far concentrated on custom-made trucks such as smaller cabs for car transporters or special airport vehicles.

VW subsidiary plans job cuts: In Germany up to 7,000 jobs are on the verge

If the three locations were to be closed, around

2,400 jobs would be lost

.

In total, the VW * subsidiary plans to cut around

9,500 jobs

.

The remaining approximately 7,000 positions could thus be allocated to the other locations.

At the main plant in Munich alone, the company currently has around 9,000 employees in production and administration, and the engine plant in

Nuremberg

accounts for a further 3,600

.

In

Salzgitter

, where the

Traton

subsidiary manufactures axles and other components, the truck manufacturer has 2,400 employees.

The company initially left open on Friday exactly how many jobs are to be deleted at the German locations.

There will be corresponding discussions with the works council, said a

MAN

spokesman on Friday opposite Merkur.de *.

The relevant negotiations should take place promptly.

However, they are striving for "as

socially acceptable job cuts

as possible

," it said.

The savings should affect all areas of the group, from administration to production to sales.

Research and development are not excluded from the plans, it said.

According to corporate circles, there could also be "job cuts" at the main plant in Munich.

This applies to both administration and production.

Actually,

an employment

pact applies at

MAN

.

Thereafter, redundancies for operational reasons are excluded until 2030.

VW: MAN works council announces bitter resistance over planned job cuts

The

MAN works council

sharply criticized the Munich truck manufacturer's plan on Friday and announced bitter resistance.

"These are management concepts from deep down out of the moth

boxes,

" said works council

chairman Saki Stimoniaris

.

The workforce will not atone for serious management mistakes, but will offer resistance.

Overall, the management's plan would mean that “every second job in Germany and Austria would be destroyed”.

In the

face of the Corona crisis,

MAN Truck & Bus

slipped deep into the red in the first half of the year.

From January to June, the VW subsidiary had sunk 387 million euros operationally after a profit of 253 million in the same period last year.

Incoming orders fell by 22 percent to 4.78 billion euros in the first six months, while sales fell by a good quarter to 4.07 billion euros.

TRATON SE: Management boards of MAN SE and MAN Truck & Bus SE decide on the cornerstones of a comprehensive ... https://t.co/Su7rWdRAU8

- DGAP-Ad-hoc (@DGAP_Ad_hoc) September 11, 2020

With the announced restructuring, the group wants to realign itself in the long term.

In addition to hydrogen and electric drives, the

truck manufacturer

, which belongs to the VW commercial vehicle subsidiary

Traton, plans to

invest heavily in digitalization and autonomous driving in the coming years.

MAN is planning massive job cuts: Thousands of jobs in Germany and Austria are at risk - entire locations are about to be closed

First report from September 11th, 8.25 a.m .:

The

truck manufacturer MAN

wants to reposition itself and therefore cut

up to

9,500 jobs

in

Germany

and

Austria

.

The VW subsidiary announced on Friday in Munich that this is part of improving the result by around 1.8 billion euros.

Only in July there was a change in the company's management.

Volkswagen is exchanging several top managers in its commercial vehicle divisions.

The heads of

Traton

and

MAN

lost their posts.

MAN is cutting jobs - entire locations could close

Jobs

are to be cut in all areas

, and the managers want to move production and development to other locations.

The production site in

Steyr, Austria,

and the plants in

Plauen (Saxony)

and

Wittlich (Rhineland-Palatinate)

could be closed completely.

Major job cuts have been up

for discussion

at

MAN for a

long time

because the group's costs were

too high

even before the

Corona crisis

.

Most recently, up to

6000 positions were mentioned

in media reports

.

There had been a

violent dispute

between the former

VW commercial vehicle board member and Traton boss Andreas Renschler

and the employee side

about the procedure

.

Renschler had to vacate his posts at VW at the beginning of July, Traton and

MAN

got new bosses.

MAN conversion: costs in the upper three-digit million range

For the conversion,

MAN

estimates costs in the mid to upper three-digit million range.

Negotiations with the employee representatives regarding the

downsizing

are to be started as soon

as possible.

"The intended realignment will require a fundamental restructuring of the MAN Truck & Bus business in all areas, including a realignment of the development and production network as well as significant job cuts," the press release said.

"In this context, some development and production processes are planned to be relocated to other locations."

MAN: Downsizing is likely even without a corona pandemic

MAN

and the Swedish truck manufacturer Scania are part of the

Volkswagen Group

.

The industry is also under pressure because of the sharp drop in demand for trucks worldwide.

In Europe, even before the

corona pandemic

, MAN expected

a decline of 10 to 20 percent this year, which made

job cuts at MAN

more likely.

At the 2016 works meeting, an agreement was announced that will secure employment until at least 2025 *.

(dpa)

* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network

Source: merkur

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