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GM Layoffs Cast Pall At Ren Cen

Feb 4, 2019 | 1:52 PM

General Motors is starting its next round of white-collar job cuts today.

The automaker had announced in November that it needed to cut its white collar work force by about 8-thousand.

About 2,250 salaried workers then volunteered to take a buyout.

This left just over 57-hundred jobs that had to go.

GM then trimmed about 1,500 contract jobs, reducing the number to about 4-thousand.

It is not yet clear when these workers will be pink-slipped.

GM is scheduled to reports its 4th quarter and full year earnings for 2018 on Wednesday.

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