Siemens intends to delete 6,900 jobs worldwide in next few years, half of m in Germany. The turbine plants in Görlitz and Leipzig are to be closed, plant in Erfurt may be sold, group shares. Due to planned merger of solution business of Power plant division, which was settled in Erlangen and Offenbach, Offenbach site is expected to stand with about 700 employees ahead of year.

For some time now, Siemens is no longer going into power plant division with around 46,800 employees worldwide, especially its large gas turbines in Germany and Europe. This has led to a drop in prices and overcapacity. The business unit "process industry and drives" with recently around 44,800 employees worldwide offers, for example, transmissions, motors, drives and clutches for oil, gas and mining industries. It is also strongly dependent on commodity prices. In both divisions, CEO Joe Kaeser had already deleted jobs.

The most affected is power plant part, which is affected by consequences of energy turnaround. There are now 6,100 jobs left alone, of which 2,600 are in Germany. In case of electric drives, 760 jobs are dismantled, majority of m in Berlin. There were also significant overcapacity, Siemens shared. "We will create se measures carefully, prudently and in long term," said HR manager Janina Ball.

At least in Germany, group wants to get along without any redundancies. "We are still interested in a constructive dialogue with workers and we want to do this in such a way that we can get along without any operational redundancies," said Ball. First of all, it is a question of how many employees, such as change to or areas or furr qualification, are to be answered in discussions. Only n will it be possible to see if any redundancies are necessary. As many of those affected as possible should be communicated to 3,200 vacancies in group.

Trade unions announce resistance to

Prior to announcement of plans, Siemens leadership had not ruled out operational redundancies. The IG Metall trade union sees this as a breach of agreement on location and employment protection, which has been in force at Siemens since 2010. She had refore announced resistance to plans.

"A job reduction of this magnitude is totally unacceptable in view of excellent overall situation of company," said IG Metall board member Jürgen Kerner, who also sits on supervisory board of group. It is not even a serious basis for discussion for Union. Kerner is also hoping for support of employees and policy.

The trade unionist accused Siemens Executive Board that "despite repeated appeals" did not react in time to crisis in conventional power plant technology. But Siemens is also having problems in Geschäftmit of renewable energies: FusionierteWindanlagen subsidiary Siemens Gamesa has already announced DenAbbau of 6,000 jobs. " For a company like Siemens, this mixture of inaction and ingenuity borders on a bankruptcy of management, "said Kerner after a meeting of Economic Committee, on division head Willi Meixner and personnel manager Janina Ball plans Had presented.

Date Of Update: 17 November 2017, 12:03