Volkswagen guarantees safe jobs up to 2029
The Volkswagen Autogroup has agreed with the works council to extend employment insurance until 2029. Despite the diesel crisis, sales problems in important markets, mobility and digitisation, there is no massive reduction in jobs. "Here at Volkswagen, there is no need to worry about your job," works council chief Bernd Osterloh summed up on Wednesday the cornerstones of the "Roadmap Digital Transformation" agreed between employee representatives and group management.
In all German VW plants, jobs are guaranteed up to 2029. The dismantling of 4000's "indirect" jobs in the next four years will be socially sustainable and will be offered for the 1962 to 1964 age brackets.
At least 2000, additional jobs relating to digitisation will be created in the coming years. The Group also intends to invest up to 2023 four billion euro in digitisation projects, primarily in administration, but also in production.
130.000 Jobs in Germany
VW employs employees at its German sites around 130.000, the largest East German plant with 8400 employees is located in Zwickau. Only electric cars are built here.
VW increases the qualification budget up to 2023 by 60 million euros to 160 million euros in order to make employees fit for the digital transformation. For this purpose, a future picture is designed for each area, "which shows us not only quantitatively how much staff we need, but also what competences we need for our success in the competition," explained Staff Manager Gunnar Kilian.
The company is creating an online university to do this and is pushing learning through online platforms. The number of training places remains constant with the annual 1400. In the next two years, the Group will invest 8,5 million euros "in electrical and IT laboratories as well as project workshops" in the six West German locations for a professional training geared to digital requirements.
Productivity increases by five percent each year
These points were important to the workers' side. Management, in turn, wants the group to be faster, slimmer and more competitive, and more profitable. The core brand VW, which has been clearly lagging behind the profits of the sister brands Audi and Porsche for years, is expected to yield a six percent return. That would be three years earlier than originally planned.
The productivity gains now agreed with the works council from five per cent per year to 2023 are decisive. This means that five per cent less staff is needed each year to produce a car. Or else: With the same workforce, the production volume increases by five percent. Here there is a link with the extension of the age to the 1962 to 1964 years. "The release of the vintages takes place when personal, financial and productivity goals are achieved," VW said.
Thinner, faster, agile
Finally, a Communication from the Works Council states that'digitisation creates the basis for a more efficient and agile enterprise'. Each area and each work will therefore strive for flatter hierarchies. Entire management levels would be eliminated, but management -related redundancies are also excluded. VW wants to help VW find jobs outside the group with outplacement offers.(徳囯ASK电容器)