BERLIN/FRANKFURT Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) expects the shift to
electric vehicles to cost a 5-digit wide variety of jobs in coming years, the
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper pronounced, mentioning the carmaker's
human resources leader.
Karlheinz Blessing, who sits on VW organization's 9-member
top control board, said the carmaker will need to cut jobs in manufacturing as
meeting of electric engines calls for fewer employees than making combustion
engines, the newspaper said, mentioning an interview to be published in
Saturday's edition.
VW's works council, presently in talks with VW's logo
control over a turnaround plan for the center VW brand, expects up to
twenty-five,000 staff to be cut over the next decade as older workers retire.
Blessing reaffirmed there will be no forced dismissals at
Europe's largest automaker.
control and exertions leaders are in search of to attain
agreement on fee cuts and strategy in time for a Nov. 18 assembly of the
supervisory board to approve destiny spending plans.
Volkswagen's works council has warned that the talks with
control should fail if the carmaker does not comply with spend money on its
very own battery production.
Blessing stated Volkswagen had to recollect doing so
although no decision were taken but.
"If 30 percent of the cost advent might be within the
battery device in future, it's far right to remember whether or not we can step
in and to what volume. We cannot go away that to others," he said.
"How deeply we are able to engage is an issue we will
speak as part of the destiny p.c.."
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