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Wolfsburg (dpa) - Volkswagen has agreed on further steps to cut jobs with the carmaker's works council.
Accordingly, existing offers for partial retirement will now also be opened for those born in 1964.
In addition, older employees are to be offered new offers for early retirement.
Volkswagen AG announced this on Sunday in Wolfsburg.
The "Handelsblatt" had previously reported on it.
How many jobs are saved in this way depends on how many employees ultimately accept the offers.
In an internal employee information sheet available to the dpa, the works council calculates that “a low four-digit number of employees” could stop using the additional partial retirement programs.
In addition, experience has shown that up to 900 employees could retire at short notice with the new early retirement regulations.
A VW spokeswoman and a spokesperson for the works council unanimously emphasized that this was not a new round of job cuts.
The background to the resolutions is the so-called “fixed costs program”, with which fixed costs in the company are to fall by a total of 5 percent by 2023.
Before Christmas, the VW supervisory board had principally given backing to CEO Herbert Diess for this project.
The management's commitment to implement potential new savings only within the framework of existing programs was seen as a stage victory for the works council.
At Volkswagen, jobs can only be cut in a “socially acceptable way” because the company will secure jobs until 2029.
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“The company and the works council agreed at the end of 2020 to implement further savings efforts by 2023,” writes the works council.
"The rules explained here will initially only apply until the end of 2021."
The current agreements also include an extension of the so-called “Level Freeze” program, which is used to freeze upper staff limits.
This is an “important lever to accelerate the internal transformation of the company, since the positions must first be filled via the internal labor market”.
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