20,000 employees leave VW voluntarily by 2030 – Diepresse.com

According to the works council, the production could decrease in two years in the Volkswagen Stammwerk Wolfsburg. Due to the transition to the new SSP electric car platform, the employees will then lack work, said works council chief Daniela Cavallo yesterday, Tuesday, at the works meeting, according to information from participant circles.

« From 2027, the temporary four-day week is not a absurd scenario here, » Cavallo was quoted. She advised the employees to fill their working hours well until then so that there is no financial loss.

Employees leave VW voluntarily

At the company meeting, the company called the current status at the end of last year: Around 20,000 employees already concluded contracts for voluntary resignation by 2030, as Human Resources Director Gunnar Kilian said, according to VW. The first thing to do was report “Bild am Sonntag” about the number. In some cases, the car manufacturer employed a severance payment, according to the works council, the majority are in partial retirement. With the implementation of the agreement for the socially acceptable dismantling of a total of 35,000 jobs in Germany until the end of the decade, the car manufacturer was on course, explained Kilian.

The German automobile manufacturer has to restructure its companies in order to cope with the uneven demand for its vehicles. Also rising costs, the weaker demand in Europe and the rapid rise of Chinese competitors are now forcing the largest carmaker in Europe to reduce its production capacities and employee numbers in Germany.

The CEO of the core brand, David Powels, confirmed how the car manufacturer is becoming more competitive again and should make profit faster: « We have to work on our structural problems, among other things: too high investments, too low returns in electric vehicles and too high break-even point. » He appealed to the workforce to pull the management together.

Savings annoy the workforce

However, according to the works council, savings lead to annoyance in everyday work in Wolfsburg. Cavallo complained that the offices were rarely cleaned that a colleague already brought her own vacuum cleaner to work and cleaned himself. After the employer pushed for the return to the office, there are long snakes in the canteen. There are not enough staff there, not to eat enough and too few seats. There are often failures in production. « There are always any systems, parts are missing, the whole factory has been pulled across, nothing is out of one cast here! » Cavallo was quoted. Failures would have to be caught up in special layers. « Is that all the Volkswagen we know? » The company did not immediately comment on the allegations on request. (APA/Reuters/Bloomberg)