{"id":340,"date":"2024-07-29T04:40:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T04:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/rtl-today-struggle-to-switch-electric-car-woes-force-german-supplier-zf-to-axe-jobs\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T04:40:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T04:40:20","slug":"rtl-today-struggle-to-switch-electric-car-woes-force-german-supplier-zf-to-axe-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/rtl-today-struggle-to-switch-electric-car-woes-force-german-supplier-zf-to-axe-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"RTL Today &#8211; Struggle to switch: Electric car woes force German supplier ZF to axe jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>German car parts manufacturer ZF said Friday it would cut a fifth to a quarter of jobs in Germany as it struggled with the switch to electric vehicles and foreign competition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The number of employees in Germany is to be successively reduced by 11,000 to 14,000 from the current level of around 54,000 by 2028,&#8221; ZF said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to significantly reduce the size of its domestic workforce was needed to &#8220;respond to the changes in the mobility sector, particularly in the field of electromobility&#8221;, ZF said.<\/p>\n<p>The move was &#8220;difficult but necessary&#8221;, ZF chief executive Holger Klein said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The seriousness of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/today.rtl.lu\/news\/business-and-tech\/a\/2217260.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German car parts manufacturer ZF said Friday it would cut a fifth to a quarter of jobs in Germany as it struggled with the switch to electric vehicles and foreign competition. &#8220;The number of employees in Germany is to be successively reduced by 11,000 to 14,000 from the current level of around 54,000 by 2028,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-automotive"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}