Vehicle manufacturing giant Ford has announced plans to cut 400 jobs from its Australian workforce as the company seeks to “improve efficiency.”
This follows a global culling of approximately 3,000 jobs as the company moves towards electrification and comes as Ford announced in March plans to cut 250 jobs from its Geelong and Broadmeadows plants.
The City of Geelong will be hardest hit, with most of the hundreds of job losses expected to start in September.
“We have begun consultation with our employees and unions on our intention to offer a separation program for approximately 400 or 1,800 employees in Australia,” the company said in an email to The Epoch Times….