Difficulty: The US aircraft manufacturer Boeing is suffering from the corona crisis.
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The stricken aircraft manufacturer Boeing is making serious headway in the Corona crisis with its large job cuts. Around 6,770 employees in the United States receive their dismissal letters this week, the company said on Wednesday.
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The layoffs therefore come in addition to around 5520 employees who have accepted severance offers and will leave the company in the next few weeks. There will be thousands more departures in the coming months, Boeing chief Dave Calhoun said in a memo to the employees.
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Boeing cuts staff by ten percent
The wave of layoffs comes as no surprise: Boeing had already announced at the end of April that it would reduce its workforce by around ten percent by around 160,000.
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This plan has now only been substantiated. The group has been deeply in crisis for a long time because of the problem flyer 737 Max, which has been banned worldwide for more than a year after two devastating crashes. The corona pandemic, which has almost brought air traffic to a standstill, has put the company under even greater pressure. (SDA)