American car manufacturer General Motors has decided to lay off dozens of workers in Israel. According to the Israeli newspaper Calcalist, the move is part of measures that include layoffs in manufacturing centers outside the United States to reduce spending.
General Motors has about 800 employees in Israel at an industrial center in Herzliya.
A few days ago, an informed source said that General Motors, the largest car manufacturer in the United States, intends to lay off more than 1,000 software engineers as part of a plan to restructure its programming and services sector, most of whom are at the company’s headquarters in the American city of Detroit.
General Motors has a total workforce of approximately 76,000 workers worldwide.
Bloomberg News Agency quoted the source as saying that more than 600 of the jobs that will be eliminated will be in the state of Michigan, two months after David Richardson and Paris Sitnok, former officials at the electronics giant Apple, were promoted to the rank of senior vice president at General Motors.
“As we build GM’s future, we must simplify its structure for speed and excellence, make bold choices, and prioritize investments that will have the greatest impact” on the group’s performance, GM said in a statement.
“As a result, we have reduced the size of certain teams within Software and Services. We are grateful to those who helped us build a strong foundation that positions GM to move forward,” she added.
This comes after informed sources stated that General Motors intends to reduce its workforce in China, while it will meet very soon with its local partner SAIC Motor to discuss a major restructuring of its operations in China.
