Stellantis initiates voluntary exit plan for Italian white-collar employees On November 14, multiple sources reported that Stellantis has asked its 15,000 Italian employees, proposing voluntary exit options via mail following a union agreement from last July, allowing for up to 2,000 voluntary redundancies by 2024. Already, more than 500 employees have accepted the voluntary exit plan. Stellantis motivated its initiative with the need to adapt it...

News  Updated at: 2023/11/17

Stellantis offering buyouts to U.S. salaried employees Stellantis NV said that it is offering buyouts to approximately 6,400 of its white-collar, salaried employees in the U.S., out of a total of its 12,700 salaried employees in the country not represented by the UAW. The buyout packages are being offered to employees with five or more years of service. According to Stellantis, the buyouts are being offered due to challenging market conditions an...

News  Updated at: 2023/11/15

the construction of a new building equipped for handling battery megastructures, installation of a new line system, and implementation of a new layout and tools for all assembly and logistics areas. Then rebuilding existing logistics platforms and adding a new one. Staff training involved 200 white-collar workers and 700 production personnel, where 400 would work on the assembly line and 300 in logistics. Some 160 employees transitioned to other ...

News  Updated at: 2023/10/27

ly for the automotive industry, but also for the stationary market.  This giga project aligns with the Romanian’s government vision of integrating Romania into the value chain of batteries at the European level and aims. The factory will create 2000 jobs in different departments (white and blue collar) in addition to creating around 1000 indirect jobs. It will have a capacity of 22 gigawatt-hours by 2027. There will also be a recycling capaci...

News  Updated at: 2023/07/10

m of representation in industrial and Trade Unions relations, with a further stimulus to commissions. From an economic standpoint, in the first two years of the CCSL, an overall increase of more than 11% in salaries is expected, to which is added an increase in the "quota mansione" system for white-collar employees. All employees will receive a "one-off" payment of EUR 400 in two tranches in April and July, as well as the delivery of fuel voucher...

News  Updated at: 2023/03/09

at other offices that it will be at least the end of June 2021 when most office workers at the company will return to their workplaces.Returning next June means that they will have been working from home more than 15 months before they are expected to go back.Now, nearly six months after most white-collar employees began working at home, the company is continuing to listen to employee feedback and establish a more flexible work culture, according...

News  Updated at: 2020/09/05

GM using salaried workers to build pickups at Wentzville plant General Motors is using salaried employees to help build pickups at its Wentzville Assembly plant due to high absenteeism amid the coronavirus pandemic.The UAW has filed grievances with GM, accusing the company of violating a clause in the 2019 union contract by putting white-collar workers in union jobs, but GM said it has no choice if it is to rebuild inventory of the Chevrolet Colo...

News  Updated at: 2020/08/26

GM to consider bringing remote workers in office in October, most expected out through 2020 The majority of General Motors' white-collar workers in the United States are not likely to return to the office until year-end or even 2021.In a July 31 internal memo sent to GM's 40,000 salaried workers, GM's President of North America Steve Carlisle wrote "In the U.S., employees will begin to receive general access to GM's facilities. Access will be gra...

News  Updated at: 2020/08/26

Honda’s Marysville plant resorts to white-collar assemblers on the production line Honda production workers in Marysville, Ohio have received assistance from their white-collar colleagues recently as the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in staffing shortages at the plant."Due to strong customer demand for our products and the need to carefully manage production during the COVID-19 pandemic, we are facing some temporary staffing issues that req...

News  Updated at: 2020/08/01

ly adjusted its operations to lower demand from the record levels in the first half of 2019 by utilizing the incorporated flexibility, while at the same time accelerating its transformation towards sustainable transport solutions. As the next step, the Volvo Group plans to further reduce its white-collar workforce globally by approximately 4,100 positions during the second half of 2020. Since mid-2019, the Volvo Group has adjusted its activity l...

News  Updated at: 2020/06/18

nufacturer is striving to cut costs. Renault Trucks plans to adjust its organisation to the lower market demand, while accelerating its transformation focusing on customer and driver experience and energy transition. This could result in reducing its workforce by 463 positions in France. Only white-collar workers would be affected. In parallel, Renault Trucks is considering creating new jobs by bringing in house (in-sourcing) certain activities, ...

News  Updated at: 2020/06/17

Ford, GM, FCA to keep many white-collar employees working remotely until September On June 4, a Ford spokesman confirmed that the majority of its U.S. non-manufacturing employees will not return to the office before September, pushing back the date from Ford's previous plan to bring them back in July.Ford has not made a step-by-step plan to bring back those employees who are presently working remotely, said Ford spokesman T.R. Reid.Ford is curren...

News  Updated at: 2020/06/06

Volvo Cars accelerates structural transformation for long-term growth On April 29, Volvo Cars announced that it plans to accelerate its transformation to effectively position the company for long term growth. As a result, it is giving notice for a reduction of 1,300 white-collar positions in its Swedish operations, plus a continued review and reduction of consultancy contracts. The exact nature and amount of job reductions will be decided over th...

News  Updated at: 2020/04/29

yee had tested positive for COVID-19 and died. The internal discussion disclosed that the deceased was a man in his 50s who provided technical support for dynamometers, devices used for measuring torque and brake power required to operate a vehicle, FCA sources said.The majority of global FCA white collar employees had already begun to work remotely, with some engineering test labs yet open at the expansive headquarters complex.With the latest an...

News  Updated at: 2020/03/24

employees the following morning. The affected person had been away from the facility for a few days previous."The person was working remotely, coincidentally. The person is in quarantine and getting medical attention,” said the Ford spokesman said.On March 13, Ford asked most of its global white collar employees to work remotely. (Detroit Free Press article on March 17, 2020)...

News  Updated at: 2020/03/18

ch and development (R&D) center on November 27, 2019. The all-new R&D center will have a floor space of 100,000 square meters. It will be built on a site of 21,333 square meters in Zhangjiang, Shanghai, with a total investment of CNY 1.02 billion. It will house a total of 1,400 engineers and white-collar workers. The construction is scheduled to complete in July 2022. (From a press release dated November 27, 2019)...

News  Updated at: 2019/11/27

Ohio, Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly, and transmission plants in Warren, Michigan and near Baltimore, Maryland, affecting about 2,800 U.S. hourly jobs. The plants currently are closed except Detroit-Hamtramck, which is operating until January 2020.The company also cut approximately 4,000 nonunion white-collar workers and closed its Oshawa Assembly plant in Ontario, though Canadian autoworkers have their own union. (Detroit Free Press article on Septe...

News  Updated at: 2019/09/04

he immediate objective is to reach an agreement with Salo IoT Campus, allowing Valmet Automotive to set the plant in a building at the Salo IoT Campus area, previously used for mobile phone production. The battery plant is estimated to employ more than 300 persons, including a large number of white-collar workers.  Valmet press release...

News  Updated at: 2019/03/01

Toyota plant in Guanajuato, Mexico now 80% complete, operations to begin at end of 2019 On February 21, Tom Sullivan, president of Toyota in Mexico, announced that the company’s new assembly plant in Guanajuato, Mexico is 80% complete, and that while plans to begin operations at the end of 2019 are still in force, the official date could be postponed to the first quarter of 2020.White-collar employees who have been supervising the construction ...

News  Updated at: 2019/02/27

tems on vehicles. The company aims to diffuse the use of the systems in the emerging countries to the level in Japan and Europe, in order to win the top share in each market in the future. Tolerance rings are corrugated metal rings. A tolerance ring installed between a steering shaft and a steering collar lock deters the operation of the steering wheel when the car is locked. According to Saint-Gobain, 90% of passenger cars in Japan and Europe us...

News  Updated at: 2015/01/16