WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Stellantis has offered voluntary severance packages to 33,500 of its U.S. employees, including 2,500 full-timers, in a bid to streamline operations.
The parent company of the American manufacturer Chrysler did not specify the number of positions it intends to eliminate. It made a similar offer to some of its employees in Canada.
Stellantis North America chief operating officer Mark Stewart said in an email to employees seen by Reuters that a review of the group’s operations “shows that we need to become more efficient “.
Stellantis said severance packages were offered to employees who have at least 15 years of seniority and work in certain sectors.
“Competition is fierce, and we can’t pass the entire cost of electrification on to the consumer. Make no mistake, we want to win in this market,” said Mark Stewart.
General Motors, rival of the American-Italian-French group, announced this month that around 5,000 of its employees had accepted voluntary severance packages after it cut hundreds of jobs in February.
Ford also recently announced major workforce reductions in Europe, Spain and Germany in particular, and said it wanted to cut some 3,000 additional jobs mainly in North America and India.
(Reporting by David Shepardson, Tangi Salaün, editing by Kate Entringer)
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