Ford plans to cut one in nine product development and administration jobs in Europe as part of a global group effort to focus on electric vehicles, the U.S. automaker said on Tuesday.
Around 3,800 jobs will be eliminated in total, including 2,300 at the carmaker’s factories in Cologne and Aachen, Germany, 1,300 in the UK and 200 in the rest of Europe, the company said. The automaker said it intends to obtain the reductions through voluntary redundancy programs.
The news comes as a blow to unions, who said in late January that the worst-case scenario would see 2,500 job cuts in Europe in product development and another 700 in management.
Ford is investing $50 billion to electrify its product lineup, have a leaner, higher-priced vehicle lineup to offset the higher costs of producing electric cars.
“There will be significantly less work to be done on drivetrains as electrification progresses. We are entering a world with fewer global platforms where less engineering work is required. That’s why we have to make adjustments,” said Ford Germany President Martin Sander.
Source: CNN Brasil
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