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The Porsche was supposed to reduce 1,900 jobs by 2029, as he struggled with a stagnant demand for his electric models.
Reduction, which will target the Porsche factory in Zuffenhausen, which produces its complete electric vehicle, and the research and development center on Stuttgart’s periphery comes because the company announced a plan last week Expand your car range and combustion hybrid.
The manufacturer of luxury cars, part of the VW group, warned that his profit margins will be between 10 and 12 percent this year, which is significantly below the long -term goal of 20 percent of the group. The burning of 800 million euros in combustion vehicles and hybrids will add its costs this year.
Porsche, which produces all its cars in Germany, blamed the decision to reduce jobs on “Delayed Growth of Electromobilities [and] Challenging geopolitical and economic conditions ”.
Porsche’s embrace of electric models was misleading in China, where sales last year fell by 28 percent because consumers failed to accept Taycan, his EV-Pruzdi Zuffenhausen.
Last fall, the company reduced one shift to Zuffenhausen to cope with a sharp fall in demand for Taycan, which fell 49 percent last year.
The announcement follows an agreement on the VW group in December aimed at reducing 35,000 jobs in its leading brand. The car manufacturer said he would do it “in a socially acceptable way” by 2030, because the fall in sales and in China and in his home region has encouraged the largest European car manufacturer to make steps to halve his production capacity.
Audi, another VW brand, is also under pressure to deal with sliding deliveries, with reports that executive director Gernot Döllner is trying to negotiate thousands of potential job reductions with Union Ig Metall.
Jörg Schlagbauer, Chairman of the Audi Council for Working Works, Handelsblatt said that the proposals were “brutal cost reduction measures”. Neither Union nor Audi confirmed the number of potential reductions in work.
As part of the Agreement, it was reached in December between the Union Ig Metall and the Porsche registry of Volkswagen, it is not possible to release at the manufacturer of luxury cars by 2030. A sports car manufacturer based in Stuttgart, so they will rely on employees who accept voluntary superfluous packages or before retirement.
In a joint interview with the local newspaper Stuttgarter Nachrichten, the head of the Porsche Human Resources, Andreas Haffner and the head of her Working Council Council, Harald Buck, said the bids were currently available to employees in the amount of 55 years before retirement.
Haffner added that by the end of this year, approximately 2000 temporary workers of Porsche would leave the company after their contracts have not been renovated.
In response to the poor demand of EV, Porsche began conversations to end the contracts of the Lutza Meschke and Detlev von Platin, a group of sales and marketing of the group on the eve of their final dates.
