dpa Opel renovation
02/01/2010
'In terms of the number of employees, the plans show a cut of 2,000 more employees than the figures publicly announced by management.' Reilly had announced that around 8,300 of the 48,000 jobs in Europe should be cut. Half of this is to be deleted in Germany.
According to the works council, the restructuring plan does not provide for any replacement appointments in the area of ​​development (engineering), although many employees go into partial retirement and many new projects should also be managed. Contrary to previous statements, however, the planned reduction of around a third of the positions in management should be dropped. 'On the contrary: new managers are being hired.' In addition, employee contributions in the billions are planned, but no financial contributions from management: 'They want to use special bonuses.'
GM does not want to put any more money into Opel renovation
According to the works council, the US group General Motors (GM) does not want any further funds for the Opel renovation. This became clear in discussions with the Opel management on Monday, said the European works council. According to the current plans, GM puts the financing requirements for the restructuring at 3.3 billion euros. Of this, the European governments are to take over 2.7 billion euros from taxpayers' money.
GM sees its contribution through the repayment of the Opel bridge loan of 600 million euros in November 2009 as well as an advance on development services for more 650 million euros as paid in January. 'According to the current plans, GM does not want to participate in the restructuring with its own contributions', criticized the employee representatives.
