COVID-19：全球裁员公告：2020年4月9日（丰田，本田，日产，大众，美国）
Posted on 04/09/2020
These layoffs are related to the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
Volkswagen
Volkswagen AG plans to furlough workers
at a Tennessee auto plant starting April 11, 2020.
VW said employees and production contractors at the plant have to date received full pay and benefits during the shutdown that began March 21.
Nissan
Nissan manufacturing facilities in the U.S.
are closed through late April 2020.
These plans impact employees mostly in Tennessee and Mississippi.
Nissan seeks to bring back 100% of its workers that were temporarily laid off.
Over 10,000 Nissan U.S. employees are on temporary leave.
Nissan said it was temporarily laying off about 10,000 U.S. hourly workers effective April 6. It has suspended operations at its U.S. manufacturing facilities through late April due to the impact of the outbreak.
Honda
Honda plans to put half of its U.S. staff, which is over 10,000 employees, on temporary leave.
The workers are in factories in Alabama and Ohio.
A spokesman for Honda, which employs about 18,400 workers at plants in Alabama, Indiana and Ohio, said the Japanese automaker would guarantee salaries through Sunday, having suspended operations on March 23. The plants will be closed through May 1.
Toyota Motor Corp said this week it plans to reopen its North American auto plants on May 4, extending its current shutdown by two additional weeks. Toyota said it will stop paying salaries for 5,000 workers provided by outside agencies.
Redfin
Seattle-based Redfin plans to chop off 7% of its staff and furlough hundreds of agents.
Redfin is cutting 41% of its field agent workforce, with a majority furloughed until September 1, 2020 and the remaining laid off. At December 31, 2020,
Redfin had 3,377 total employees and had more than 1,500 lead agents.
Redfin paused its home-buying business.
Zillow
Zillow Group plans to cut expenses by 25% in 2020 and freeze hiring across the company. Zillow paused its home-buying business.
Yelp
San Francisco-based Yelp,
an internet-based review platform,
plans to layoff or furlough at least 2,000 employees.
“Today we will let 1,000 of our colleagues go and furlough approximately 1,100 more, while reducing hours for others,” said Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman in the April email.
Hooters
Hooters of America LLC terminated 416 jobs at 14 corporate-owned North Carolina restaurants.
SWFI
https://www.swfinstitute.org/news/78773/swfi-daily-layoffs-briefing-april-9-2020
Volkswagen Furloughs 1,500 Workers at Tennessee Auto Plant Starting April 11 – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/04/09/business/09reuters-health-coronavirus-volkswagen.html