Volkswagen Announces Job Cuts
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2021-03-14 HKT 23:46
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Carmaker Volkswagen will shed up to 5,000 jobs between now and the end of 2023 as part of cost-cutting to finance its transition to electric vehicles, the company said in a statement Sunday.
Up to 900 employees would opt for an early retirement scheme while others would leave the company as part of a gradual halting of their activities, it said.
It did not give a precise figure for those employees, saying only that it would be in the lower end of a "four-digit number", an expression usually used to mean between 2,000 to 4,000. (AFP)
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