(Reuters) -General Motors will lay off 1,695 workers at its Fairfax Assembly Plant in Kansas, the company said in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification notice earlier this week.
A GM spokesman, confirming the layoffs first reported by Automotive News, said the first of two rounds will begin Nov. 18, temporarily affecting 686 full-time workers and laying off 250 temporary employees.
In the second phase, which will begin on January 12 next year, 759 full-time workers will be temporarily laid off, the spokesman confirmed.
In May, GM said it would stop production of the Cadillac XT4 after January 2025 in Kansas, resulting in layoffs of production employees until manufacturing resumes in late 2025 for both the Bolt EV and XT4 on the same assembly line.
“As previously announced in May, GM is investing approximately $390 million in our Fairfax Assembly Plant to add production of the new Chevrolet Bolt EV,” a GM spokesman said in an emailed statement to Reuters on Saturday.
“To facilitate the installation of new tools, employees will be temporarily suspended until production resumes in mid-2025,” the spokesperson added.
In August, the company also laid off more than 1,000 salaried employees worldwide in its software and services units.
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