Majority Of General Motors Salaried Workers Offered Buyouts

CNBC reports:

“General Motors will offer voluntary buyouts to a ‘majority’ of its 58,000 U.S. white-collar employees, as it aims to cut $2 billion in structural costs over the next two years, according to a letter sent to workers Thursday from CEO Mary Barra.

The ‘Voluntary Separation Program,’ or VSP, will be offered to all U.S. salaried employees who have spent five or more years at the company as of June 30. Outside of the U.S., the automaker will offer buyouts to executives with at least two years of time at the company.

GM expects to take a pretax charge of up to $1.5 billion related to the buyouts, according to a public filing Thursday. The majority of the charges are expected to be all-cash and occur during the first half of the year, the company said.

Barra, in the letter Thursday, said the program is ‘designed to accelerate attrition in the U.S.,’ assisting the company in potentially avoiding ‘involuntary actions’ in the future. The buyout offer comes after the Detroit automaker said last week it would terminate about 500 salaried positions globally.

The last time GM offered such a large buyout program was for roughly 18,000 North American salaried employees in 2018-2019.”

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