At the Munich truck manufacturer MAN, talks about the future realignment of the group are apparently nearing completion.
The company and the works council have come closer together on key issues.
The Munich truck manufacturer
MAN
has announced a comprehensive restructuring program.
A total of
9500 jobs are
at stake.
The negotiations went on for a long time.
But shortly before the turn of the year,
the discussions started
to
move
.
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Munich -
There is movement in the
struggle for the future of the ailing truck manufacturer
MAN
- there will obviously be no redundancies for operational reasons.
"The topic is as good as off the table," said a person familiar with the processes at
Merkur.de
*.
Instead, the company and the works council would “in all probability” agree on a socially acceptable downsizing.
The
MAN works council
had surprisingly put the negotiations with the company on the planned staff cuts and the future position on hold in mid-November.
In support had
MAN
-Betriebsratschef
Saki Stimoniaris
said the company was "moved away a millimeter from his clear-cutting plans in seven sessions" as well.
MAN: CEO Tostmann looks to 2021 with caution
In
contrast,
CEO
Andreas Tostmann
recently
pointed out
the difficult economic situation at
MAN Truck & Bus
.
According to a release published at the end of October, the truck manufacturer expects an operating loss of 450 to 650 million euros for 2020.
Tostmann was also cautious about the coming year.
"We're going into the next year with very strict lockdown rules," the
MAN
boss recently said in an interview with Münchner Merkur.
Therefore, the year 2021 will "
certainly be very difficult
for
MAN
".
The
VW
* subsidiary announced a comprehensive restructuring program in mid-September.
According to the plans, 9500 of the group-wide 36,000 jobs could be lost.
The sites in
Wittlich
(Rhineland-Palatinate),
Plauen
(Saxony) and the plant in Upper Austria's
Steyr
are "up for grabs," it said.
In order to get the last deadlocked talks
going again
,
Gunnar Kilian
, the
Board Member for Human Resources at
MAN
parent company
Volkswagen
, got involved
.
In the meantime, the negotiations are "well advanced", it is said from informed circles.
An agreement is "to be expected soon, possibly before Christmas".
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MAN: Downsizing is likely to be expensive
At the moment there are many indications that the negotiating partners could agree on a comprehensive solution for partial retirement.
To this end, the works council is pushing for comprehensive compensation offers for employees and the establishment of a training company.
With these demands it looks "very good," it said.
This also applies to requests by the works council
to submit
employment
offers
within the
Volkswagen Group
to
employees who are leaving
.
How many employees actually have to leave the truck manufacturer in the end is "currently still open," says
MAN
.
The future of the Wittlich, Plauen and Steyr locations, which are threatened with closings, is also "not yet fully clarified".
However, there are indications that the downsizing “could turn out to be less” than the initially feared 9,500 jobs.