Daimler has discontinued short time working at its biggest plant.
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At Sindelfingen, the automaker will start the new year without short-time work, works council head Erich Klemm told German press agency DPA in Stuttgart.
However, the cost-cutting measure will be continued at the other plants. The brunt of the short-time work will continue being taken by the commercial vehicles segment, he added.
Though the employee representative was optimistic about 2010, he said Daimler was still not out of the woods. Further job cuts will follow over the next few years.
“For every vehicle we make, we will need less people in future,” Klemm said. The personnel reduction should succeed via voluntary compensation offer and age-related leaves.
By the end of September, Daimler employed 256,900 worldwide, some 9,600 less than a year earlier. In Germany the number dropped by 5,200 to 163,500.
Still, for the next two years the Daimler jobs are basically secure, thanks to an existing job guarantee agreement, Klemm said, according to Financial Times Deutschland.
