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Mercedes-Benz is examining the sale of company-owned car dealerships
Status: 19.01.2024 | Reading time: 2 minutes
Mercedes-Benz guarantees its employees their jobs despite the reorganization
Source: Sebastian Gollnow/dpa
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8,000 people work in 80 company-owned car dealerships: Mercedes is now considering a sale. There should be no layoffs, jobs are secured until 2029. According to the works council, however, the plan is “a slap in the face”.
The car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz is considering selling company-owned sales and service locations. It’s about adapting against the backdrop of electrification, digitalization and “constantly changing customer needs,” the company explained on Friday.
The Group’s own Mercedes-Benz branches currently employ around 8,000 people in around 80 companies. According to a spokesman, one company can include several car dealerships.
Jobs secured until 2029
According to the car manufacturer, the review of its own sales structures is carried out individually for each branch. As an investor, it is important to have proven expertise, a long-term entrepreneurial concept, a sustainable willingness to invest and an openness to employee representatives. Furthermore, the locations should not be “handed over in their entirety to a buyer”.
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“We are not planning to sell to pure financial investors, and the closure of locations is not part of the review,” the Stuttgart-based group continued. We stand by the promised job security for all collective bargaining employees until the end of 2029. There will be no layoffs in the event of a possible realignment. Rather, the aim is to secure the future viability of regional jobs and the competitiveness of the branches in the long term. The employee representatives should be closely involved in the review, it said.
“Hit in the face”
Meanwhile, the general works council criticized the plans as a “slap in the face” to the employees. “After years of sacrifice and the associated numerous concessions on the part of the employees, the branches are profitable and are making their contribution to the group result,” said works council leader Ergun Lümali. The plans are neither acceptable nor understandable.
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Especially in times of transformation, employees need support, consistency and confidence. “We will do everything we can to ensure that employees receive long-term guarantees,” he said. If this does not fall on fertile ground in discussions with the company, resistance will be offered.
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