According to Reuters, on December 11, Frank Sell, deputy chairman and key mobile solution department of Bosch, the world’s largest automotive parts supplier Bosch, said the company’s recently announced a series of layoff plans, It has forced Germany to face risks for about “8,000 to 10,000” jobs. It is reported that Bosch has approximately 135,000 employees in Germany.
Frank Sell said the overall layoff plan of Bosch made it difficult for employees to accept. At the same time, when asked if Bosch employees would hold a strike like Volkswagen Group employees, Frank Sell said that labor representatives and trade unions will now formulate an action plan for 2025, which does not rule out the possibility of strike.
Stefan Grosch, a member of the Bosch Management Committee, who is responsible for human resources, told reporters on the phone that in order to ensure that Bosch can maintain competitiveness, layoffs are necessary. And Stefan Grosch said that not only the Bosch was laid off, but the entire German automotive industry was affected. At present, European auto manufacturers are facing the weak demand and the speed of transition to electric vehicles slower than expected. At the same time, German auto manufacturers are competing fiercely with high costs and Chinese opponents.
STEFAN GROSCH said the Bosch Supervisory Board will be held on December 13. Stefan Grosch added that the rapid changes in the automotive industry means that Bosch will have to conduct regular production capacity evaluation, but Bosch’s goal is to lay off forces in the way of responsible society.
Since the beginning of this year, Bosch is not the only first -level car parts supplier in Europe that announced the layoff plan. Several of Europe’s largest car Tier 1 has announced that it has laid off more than 50,000 people around the world this year, of which at least 20,000 are in Germany and at least 10,000 people are in other parts of Europe. According to data from Clepa, a lobby group, since 2020, if the layoffs of the new crown epidemic have been added, European car parts suppliers have reduced 86,000 positions.
Pedro Pacheco, an analyst at the US Consulting company Gartner, said: “The layoffs of the first -class automobile parts supplier are usually concentrated in two key areas: electrification and software. These are new technologies promised by automakers, But progress is slower than expected, and now it is directly affecting suppliers.