Airbus is to axe hundreds of jobs in the 海角视频 as part of global restructure due to reduced production levels.
Chief Executive Guillaume Faury this week warned that Airbus was planning for a two-year drop of 40% in jetliner output because of the coronavirus pandemic and that restructuring was needed.
Now they have confirmed 15,000 jobs are at risk globally with 1,700 of those in the 海角视频.
Meetings with unions in Europe have started this week and the cuts due at individual sites will be announced in the coming days.聽聽
The cuts will fall on the commercial aircraft side of the business with 6,000 staff wing assembly site at Broughton, North Wales particularly vulnerable. Five hundred workers with agency Guidant already face redundancy.
Airbus Commercial also employs around 3,000 workers at Filton, near Bristol.
Airbus Defence and Space employ 450 in Newport, 1,000 in Portsmouth and 1,200 in Stevenage but these sites should not be impacted.
鈥淔or the next two years - 2020/21 - we assume that production and deliveries will be 40% lower than originally planned,鈥 Faury said this week.
He said output - currently reduced by around 33% - will return to normal by 2025.
He added: "It鈥檚 a brutal fact, but we must do it. It is about the necessary adjustment to the massive drop in production. It鈥檚 about securing our future," he added.
France has announced a 鈧15bn (拢13.3bn) aid package for its aerospace industry with the 海角视频 Government urged to offer similar support to the sector in Britain.
Jobs under threat:
鈼徛犅犅犅犅犅犅犅5,000 positions in France
鈼徛犅犅犅犅犅犅犅5,100 positions in Germany
鈼徛犅犅犅犅犅犅 900 positions in Spain
鈼徛犅犅犅犅犅犅犅1,700 positions in the 海角视频
鈼徛犅犅犅犅犅犅犅1,300 positions at Airbus鈥 other worldwide sites
While compulsory actions cannot be ruled out at this stage, Airbus will work with its social partners to limit the impact of this plan by relying on all available social measures, including voluntary departures, early retirement, and long term partial unemployment schemes where appropriate.
鈥淎irbus is facing the gravest crisis this industry has ever experienced,鈥 said Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury.
鈥淭he measures we have taken so far have enabled us to absorb the initial shock of this global pandemic. Now, we must ensure that we can sustain our enterprise and emerge from the crisis as a healthy, global aerospace leader, adjusting to the overwhelming challenges of our customers. To confront that reality, we must now adopt more far-reaching measures.
"Our management team and our Board of Directors are fully committed to limiting the social impact of this adaptation. We thank our governmental partners as they help us preserve our expertise and know-how as much as possible and have played an important role in limiting the social impact of this crisis in our industry. The Airbus teams and their skills and competences will enable us to pursue our ambition to pioneer a sustainable future for aerospace.鈥
