(Reuters) -General Motors will lay off 1,695 workers at its Fairfax Assembly plant in Kansas, the company said in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification earlier this week.
A GM spokesperson confirmed the layoffs initially reported by Automotive News and said the first of two rounds will begin on Nov. 18, with 686 full-time employees temporarily affected and 250 temporary workers laid off.
In the second phase, which starts on January 12 next year, 759 full-time employees will be temporarily laid off, the spokesperson confirmed.
In May, GM said it would pause production of the Cadillac XT4 in Kansas after January 2025, resulting in layoffs of production workers until production resumes in late 2025 for both the Bolt EV and XT4 on the same assembly line.
“As previously announced in May, GM is investing approximately $390 million in our Fairfax Assembly Plant to expand production of the new Chevrolet Bolt EV,” GM’s spokesperson said in an emailed statement to Reuters on Saturday.
“To facilitate the installation of new tools, employees will be temporarily laid off until production resumes in mid-2025,” the spokesperson added.
In August, the company also laid off more than 1,000 employees globally across its software and services units.
