BERLIN (dpa-AFX) - The German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) expects a further massive reduction in the sector's workforce. 'According to current calculations, we unfortunately have to anticipate a loss of 225,000 jobs by 2035, which is approximately 35,000 more than previously assumed,' VDA President Hildegard Müller told the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND).
Of these, 100,000 jobs have already been lost between 2019 and 2025, Müller added. The VDA had originally forecast a reduction of 190,000 jobs within the 2019-2035 timeframe. 'Suppliers are particularly affected, as many jobs in the supply industry will be lost during the transition from internal combustion engines to electromobility,' the VDA head explained.
Müller also cited a 'serious and persistent crisis of competitiveness' in Germany and Europe as a cause for this negative trend. 'And conditions are visibly deteriorating. High taxes and levies, expensive energy, high labor costs, excessive bureaucracy - the list of challenges goes on,' she said./bg/DP/zb
