Just about 1000 jobs to head at Valmet Automobile | Information

Valmet Automobile is reducing the group of workers at its Uusikaupunki automobile manufacturing unit via just about 1000, via redundancies and furloughs.

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Valmet Automobile has introduced the completition of trade negotiations began in January and can enforce adjustments in activity descriptions, furloughs and dismissals.

The corporate says it wishes to cut back its group of workers via 940 workers, of which about part will likely be carried out as furloughs legitimate till additional understand, and the remainder as redundancies.

The activity cuts will come into impact in overdue April – early Would possibly.

Pasi Rannus, the corporate’s senior vice-president for contract car production, instructed Yle that the group of workers discounts are because of a lower in manufacturing volumes.

“We’re speaking, alternatively, about an enduring aid in manufacturing. Adjustments within the world automobile business and up to date geopolitical occasions additionally have an effect on us. Manufacturing will proceed, however it is going to be scaled to satisfy marketplace call for,” defined Rannus.

The Valmet Automobile plant in Uusikaupunki will get started manufacturing of the Mercedes-AMG GT type within the autumn. That order will supply paintings for round 150 folks.