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Siemens to lay off 15,000 staff in 2014
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Siemens is to shed 15,000 jobs over the next year, a third of them in Germany, as part of a 6 billion euro (US$8.1 billion) cost cutting program, a spokesman said yesterday.
The announcement comes two months after the ouster of Chief Executive Peter Loescher who drew up the savings plan late last year.
Europe’s biggest engineering firm, whose products range from hearing aids to gas turbines, is anxious to close the gap with more profitable rivals such as US-based General Electric Co and Switzerland's ABB.
Siemens and its unions have reached an agreement over about half of the job cuts and a deal on the other half will follow, according to the spokesman.
He added that Siemens wanted to end speculation in the market about the number of jobs that are about to be cut.
No workers have been laid off so far and Siemens has said it does not intend to make enforced redundancies, relying instead on attrition and voluntary severance deals.
In Germany, about 2,000 jobs will be laid off at the company's industrial unit and another 1,400 at its energy and infrastructure business, the spokesman said.
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