(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 (WARN) notice earlier this week.
The first of two rounds of layoffs will begin Nov. 18 and include the temporary layoff of 686 full-time employees and the termination of 250 temporary workers, Automotive News reported Saturday, citing a filing the company made with the state of Kansas.
As of January 12, 759 full-time employees will be temporarily laid off, the report said.
GM did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on details of the latest layoffs.
Earlier in May, GM had indicated that it would halt production of the Cadillac XT4 in Kansas after January 2025. This would result in layoffs of production workers until production of both the Bolt EV and XT4 resumed on the same assembly line in late 2025.
The company also announced in August that it would lay off more than 1,000 salaried employees worldwide from its software and services divisions.
(Reporting by Surbhi Misra in Bengaluru; Editing by Alistair Bell)
