Volkswagen will cut 30 thousand jobs by 2020 – Daily News – Lisbon

Goal is to save four billion

Volkswagen announced today the dismissal of 30 thousand workers around the world, 23 billion of which in Germany, in the framework of a recovery plan and development of electric vehicles.

Herbert Diess, the head of the company, said today in press conference in Wolfsburg, and the removal of 23 thousand jobs will reach the factories of Germany during the next four years.

The remaining seven thousand workers will be laid off in the factories of Volkswagen in the rest of the world, but the locations were not specified.

According to Volkswagen, the measure will achieve savings of € 3.7 billion per year until 2020.

the Source of Autoeuropa in Portugal said today to Lusa that the workers ‘ committees of Volkswagen worldwide will gather in Germany between the the coming days 5 and 8 December.

The question of dismissals will “naturally” be considered during the workers ‘ meetings that, after, “as expected”, should meet with the directors of the company, said the same source.

In statements to the TSF, António Chora, coordinator of the Workers ‘ Committee of Autoeuropa, which will produce the new model from Volkswagen, asks that the news be regarded with calmness and says he has no fears in relation to the 273 Portuguese workers, pictures of the factory of Palmela, which were requisitioned to work in Germany for ten months. “The worst thing that can happen to these workers is they return to Autoeuropa, but I think that for now this is not on the table,”short-term.

The car manufacturer has been affected for about a year by the scandal of the manipulation of the values of pollutant emissions in diesel vehicles, which became known as the ‘Dieselgate”.

The Volkswagen agreed to pay $ 15 billion to the us authorities and to the owners of about half a million vehicles of the brand, in the United States, which did not have the electronic equipment to control emissions.

all over the world, have sold 11 million cars in the same conditions.

The Volkswagen admitted last year that he had equipped millions of cars, diesel, sold around the world, with devices that reduce the nitrogen oxide during the testing of pollutant emissions, but that then, in normal conditions of driving, allowed emissions would overcome in more than 40 times the limits allowed.