Chrysler is set to announce that some 250 white-collar workers in the US will be made forcibly redundant as it works to reduce salaried worker costs.
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Most of the dismissals will come Friday (September 26), the company said in a statement.
“The balance of our separations will be by necessity involuntary,” Chrysler’s statement said.
In July, the company said that it was axing a further 1,000 salaried jobs after terminating 3,000 positions last year and that the 1,000 jobs would go by the end of September.
“We’re ‘rightsizing’ the company to reflect a significantly smaller market in 2008 and 2009 and position ourselves against what we see are continuing economic headwinds,” spokesman David Elshoff told just-auto.
It now seems that finding the 1,000 jobs to go through natural attrition and voluntary reductions has not been sufficient to reach the 1,000 target.
