Daimler AG is eliminating 1,500 jobs at its Brazilian truckmaking division as demand for commercial vehicles in the country shows no signs of recovery. Workforce cuts became inevitable after industrywide truck sales in Brazil, South America’s largest economy, plunged 44 percent in the first half of 2015, compounding a decline last year, said Florian Martens, … Continue reading
New SAP ‘Shared Service Centers’ are currently being developed in India and Turkey. Daimler IT is placing great emphasis on the skills of its own employees while expanding the facilities. In the new Shared Service Center,Daimler will create 800 new IT-jobs in Bangalore by 2015. Positive effects on IT suppliers and the IT sector in … Continue reading
New reports circulated on Wednesday suggesting Daimler Trucks is preparing to cut more than 1,000 jobs at its Portland manufacturing facilities. Choosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor from Daimler Trucks Warns of Potential Portland Layoffs – Truckinginfo.com.
It’s too soon to tell how many layoffs will be coming to the Orion bus manufacturing facility, a Daimler spokeswoman said today. The company announced this morning it would cease bus manufacturing operations in North America. A similar facility in Mississauga, Canada, will be closed, while certain operations will be continued out of the company’s … Continue reading