Volkswagen's labour chief rules out four-day week to save jobs

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Volkswagen sees no need for a four-day week at its plants to secure jobs despite a growing shift to electric cars that are easier to build and require fewer workers, the company's head of labour relations was quoted saying on Sunday.

FILE PHOTO: Head of Volkswagen works council Bernd Osterloh addresses the media after a supervisory board meeting at the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg, Germany November 15, 2019. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer

Germany’s largest trade union IG Metall on Aug. 15 proposed negotiating for a transition to a four-day week across industry to help secure jobs, against the backdrop of economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis and structural shifts in the auto sector.

 

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He is a barbarian and a savage.

As long as the state compensates the VWs loses there’s no need to start saving money.

just redo the old transporter buses with an updated electric engine & you're golden pony boy.

He does very well. Deliberate underutilization of the workforce to merely maintain open posts is not light business, implies several consequences for all stakeholders. Also, it's prone to punish the most productives and deserving workers in a unfair fashion on the first place.

Denmark here seeing a huge influx of German migrants, up like 300% under coronavirus- its always growing.. Germans want to move to Denmark always. We got a higher quality of life, wages everything, Germany famous for low wages only...We cant take any more German migrants here!

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Who cares what he thinks.

Why save jobs? He still gets paid....

The slaves should work more, not less. Less should be only the number of slaves. The extra bagage of unnecessary slaves should be dropped to the state, after all that's the reason of paid by state pension in a solidarity system.

'early retirement' means the government / public has to pay for it. A four day week would have been up to the company.

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He wants those software engineers working all week to make those cheats in their emission software harder to find.

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