Volkswagen earmarks up to €10bn to cover job cuts – report

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    "excerpt": "Volkswagen has earmarked restructuring costs of as much as €10bn ($11.59bn) through 2030 to finance a reduction of around 60,000 positions, according to a supervisory board resolution and documents reviewed by Der Spiegel . Roughly half the cuts fall in Germany. The gold standard of business intelligence. Find out more Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more The sum, tied to a restructuring programme cleared by the carmaker’s supervisory board, covers partial retirement arrangements, severance packages and social plans – but excludes any expense from shutting down factories. According to the translated version of the report, should the four German sites currently at risk – Zwickau, Emden, Hanover and Audi’s Neckarsulm facility – be closed, “several billions” would be added on top, the documents show. Vehicle output at these locations could cease sometime between 2031 and 2034. Volkswagen’s board has pencilled in €1bn apiece for shuttering the Zwickau and Emden operations, and €2bn each for Hanover and Neckarsulm, the documents indicate. Salary savings tied to more than 40,000 staff are projected to offset these outlays by early 2037. Representatives for Volkswagen’s board of management, supervisory board, works council and the Lower Saxony state government all declined to discuss the...",
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