Since last summer, announcements of job cuts have come one after the other: 14,000 at ZF Friedrichshafen, 5,500 at Bosch with reductions in working hours for 10,000 German employees, 2,900 at Ford Germany, 9,000 at SAP, 4,700 at Schaeffler, 3,300 at BASF and 11,000 at ThyssenKrupp, among others. More are still to come, such as at Volkswagen, which is planning to close plants in Germany. “The figures announced are significant and therefore highly publicised. But we can of course imagine that the
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As a Berlin correspondent for the French and Swiss press since the late 1990s, I cover a wide range of economic, political and social issues, with a particular focus on the German business and labour market. My areas of interest include co-determination, digitalisation, demographics and ESG/DEI policies.