Berlin - The economic crisis calls for further sacrifices: When Daimler and BMW to react with more force to break the slump in auto demand. Porsche employs approximately 100 employees of the Development Department at the door.
An early year-end for the BMW employees in Munich, the BMW's main plant stopped on Friday to work for this year. What happens after the five-week production break? Uncertain. A company spokesman did not rule out further job cuts short-time yet.
If Mercedes does not look any better. Tens of thousands of workers must adjust to longer breaks, reports the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Affected are all works of the Stuttgart-based car manufacturer.
Not quite as drastic as the effect at Opel in Eisenach. There is distinguished from an agreement on shorter working hours, "Wirkönnen by collective agreement to reduce working hours from 38 to 33 hours," said factory manager Leo Wiels "Wirtschaftswoche" and added: "We'll talk with the workers."
Porsche parts with approximately 100 employees, the 4,000-strong R & D department, the magazine "Auto Motor und Sport". The paper have received a termination letter einerPersonaldienstleistungsfirma. This hot, inter alia, that the decision "reflects the current general trend in the German labor market - especially in the automotive industry -".
The figure of 100 redundancies, a Porsche spokesman did not want to confirm on request. Confirmed he had, however, that nichtverlängert the end of fixed-term contracts are expiring.
BMW's chief financial officer Frederick Eichiner demanded government help for ailing automotive suppliers to step in: "In such a difficult crisis situation, the state," said Eichiner the news magazine "Focus".
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