Daimler is again sending thousands of employees on short-time work

Stuttgart. In view of global delivery bottlenecks of important electronic components, the car manufacturer Daimler again sent thousands of employees at two German locations to short-time work this week. Employees at the Mercedes plants in Rastatt and Bremen are affected, as the group confirmed on request on Tuesday. Daimler did not mention numbers.

The short-time work was initially applied for by the end of the week, but does not extend to the entire locations. A large part of the employees in Bremen is affected, in Rastatt it is about sub-areas. The “Stuttgarter Zeitung” and the “Stuttgarter Nachrichten” had previously reported on it.

Over 23,000 employees affected?

More than 12,000 people are employed in the Bremen plant and around 6,500 in Rastatt. According to Daimler, shifts will also be canceled this week at the plant in Kecskemét, Hungary, where around 4,700 people work. The employees of these three and other Daimler locations had been temporarily put on short-time work over and over again in the past few months.

The background to this is global problems with the replenishment of electronic chips, which have been forcing other car companies to interrupt production again and again for weeks.

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