Embraer introduced it’ll reduce 900 jobs, or round 4.5 per cent of its world workforce.
The aircraft producer mentioned the measure stem from the impression of the Covid-19 pandemic on the worldwide economic system and the cancellation of the proposed partnership with Boeing.
The target is to make sure Embraer’s sustainability and engineering capability, a press release added.
The pandemic notably affected Embraer Business Aviation, which skilled a 75 per cent discount in plane deliveries throughout the first half of 2020 as in comparison with the identical interval final 12 months.
The state of affairs worsened because of the duplication of buildings related to the carve out of the corporate’s business aviation enterprise in preparation for the partnership Boeing.
On the similar time, there isn’t a expectation that the air transport sector will get better within the short- or medium-term.
Because the starting of the pandemic, Embraer has adopted a sequence of measures to protect jobs, together with collective holidays, diminished working hours, furloughs, paid depart, and three voluntary dismissal plans.
The corporate has additionally diminished face-to-face work at its industrial vegetation with the intention of guaranteeing the well being of workers and enterprise continuity.
Round 1,600 workers selected to take part within the voluntary dismissal plans in Brazil.
