After the disagreements in the summer, new trouble threatens at VW: CEO Herbert Diess wants to assert himself when filling board positions and meets with resistance.
It wasn't until the summer that there was internal uproar around VW boss
Herbert Diess
.
Now the dispute could ignite again.
The group boss's personal wishes are to blame.
Wolfsburg - The dispute between
Volkswagen Group boss Herbert Diess
and the employee side, which was
laboriously settled in the summer,
could
reignite due
to
the manager's
personal
ideas.
According to information from the
German Press Agency
on Wednesday
, Diess encountered
resistance to his
preferred candidates
for the newly-to-be-filled
board positions in
the finance and purchasing department
in the Wolfsburg-based control
committee
.
In addition, he is said to have brought an early
extension of
his own contract, which runs until 2023, into play again.
According to reports, he had already
failed
with such a proposal in the summer
- which, among other things, led to a
scandal with the Supervisory Board
, as a result of which Herbert Diess had to apologize publicly.
Trouble with VW boss Diess?
There is probably no agreement on personnel issues
From circles of the inspectors it was said, with a view to the discussed top personalities, that Diess had "certain ideas" which he brought into the
debate.
"There are
differences of opinion
.
" But there is
still time until February or March for decisions.
Regardless of this, the following applies: "The owners continue to support Mr. Diess."
VW works council expresses itself soothingly: No decision made yet
The
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
and the
Bloomberg
news agency
had also
reported
on
new discrepancies
.
Works council chief Bernd Osterloh announced on Wednesday via the online network LinkedIn that he did not know of any dispute over board positions: "The
topic of personnel
matters has not even been dealt with by a supervisory board." He is optimistic that the supervisory board will make the right choice. in order
to shape
the
renovation of the next few years
with the right candidates
.
"To
successfully develop
Volkswagen
* together with Herbert Diess at the top over the next few years."
In the video: Spraying with Elon Musk - Herbert Diess is testing a new electric car
A little distraction from internal disputes offered a joyride with
Elon Musk
*, whom Herbert Diess met on his tour through Germany.
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