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Volkswagen Board Approves Turnaround Plan, Flags 50,000 Possible Job Cuts Across Group
The plan aims to make the automaker more competitive as it faces weaker electric vehicle demand, U.S. tariffs and intense China-based competition.
- On Thursday, Volkswagen's supervisory board unanimously approved the 'Future Plan,' a comprehensive transformation strategy designed to enhance the group's efficiency and global competitiveness.
- Increasing global competitive pressure, shifting demand patterns, and technological change in the automotive industry prompted the transformation as Volkswagen seeks to safeguard competitiveness.
- The company plans to cut around 50,000 jobs by the end of the decade, bringing total anticipated workforce losses to 100,000, including management and operational positions.
- Management has not provided specific details regarding the timing of these reductions or how cuts will be distributed across individual brands and regions.
- Alongside the parent company's restructuring, Porsche plans to cut one in five jobs by 2035, illustrating brand-level measures tied to Volkswagen's broader transformation.
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Volkswagen board approves cutting 50,000 more jobs and closing 4 plants
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Volkswagen’s board of directors on Thursday approved a sweeping cost-cutting plan that would cut 50,000 jobs, slim the company's model line by half and end auto production at four German plants.
·Toronto, Canada
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The supervisory board of Volkswagen has unanimously backed a restructuring plan for Europe's largest carmaker. The agreement is a significant turnaround, as similar plans collapsed two months ago due to opposition from employee representatives and the state of Lower Saxony. Volkswagen is still keeping the details under wraps, but a leaked document shows the scale of the planned changes: by 2035, the group is expected to halve the number of model…
·Ljubljana, Slovenia
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