General Motors has confirmed it is cutting a few hundred salaried jobs on Tuesday in its initial effort to reduce its US white-collar work force by 7% this year.
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The first cuts were being announced at 30 locations, a GM spokesman told Reuters. Employees were to be given continued compensation and benefits for a period of time, depending on their length of service.
The employees being let go on Tuesday will be asked to leave the company immediately, the report noted.
“Our aim is to treat the employees being separated with dignity and respect,” GM spokesman Robert Herta told Reuters.
GM reportedly said it would offer the laid-off employees placement assistance to find jobs outside the company.
Reuters noted that these job cuts will be the first of those announced last November, when the struggling automaker said it would let go of 7% of its 36,000 white-collar US employees this year.
