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メルセデス、労働時間延長を従業員に求める一方でドイツへの投資を見合わせ
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週給を据え置いたまま週40時間勤務になれば、時間当たりの報酬は12.5%減る。メルセデスはドイツへの投資を見合わせているが、再開を確実にするためにどのような譲歩が必要かは明らかにしていない。
1時間当たりの賃金が12.5%減。 メルセデス・ベンツの従業員が週35時間から40時間勤務に移行し、週給が変わらない場合、こうなる。これは合意された変更ではない。ドイツの工場への追加投資を見合わせ、コスト交渉が決裂すれば今後のモデルを海外のみで生産する可能性があると警告するなかで、経営陣が協議してきた提案の計算上の結果だ。6
当面の支出停止と、条件付きの生産に関する警告は別のものだ。しかし両者は、今年度の支出を超える問題、すなわち次世代車の生産配分と、それに伴う工場の仕事をめぐって、経営陣に交渉力を与えている。生産部門の責任者であるミヒャエル・シーベは、これらの決定は今すぐ下す必要があると述べている。1
投資が交渉のてこに
人事責任者兼労務担当取締役のブリッタ・ゼーガーは、ドイツのどの拠点ならなお維持できるのかを、具体的かつ詳細に検討する必要があると述べている。工場閉鎖は「どんな犠牲を払っても」避けるべきだとする一方で、その選択肢を今やさらに具体的に追求しなければならないとも述べた。これは、すべての工場を存続させる約束ではない。同様に、検討を行うことは閉鎖命令ではない。6
従業員に求められていること
勤務時間をめぐる提案によって、争点は具体化している。賃金補償なしに週35時間から40時間に増やせば、労働時間は5時間、つまり14.3%増える。週給が固定されれば、1時間当たりの賃金は12.5%減る。いずれの計算も、生産性や生産量、雇用主の総コストを測るものではない。しかし、労働時間を延ばしても従業員の賃金は変わらないという説明の限界を浮き彫りにする。週給は同じでも、労働時間に対する報酬は減る可能性がある。6
コストの主張には比較の基準が必要だ
シーベの最も強い数値上の主張は、ドイツでは生産現場の労働者1時間当たりのコストが、場合によっては東欧の拠点の最大5倍になるというものだ。詳細な表現によって、以前の報道で残っていた不明点の一つが解消された。これは時間当たりの生産労働コストの比較であり、完成車1台当たりのコストが5倍違うことを示したものではない。6
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メルセデス、労働時間延長を従業員に求める一方でドイツへの投資を見合わせ
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33媒体の45件の情報源· 引用の多い順
mercedes-benz.com5
- Mercedes-Benz Group Annual Report 2025 incl. combined management report MBG AG
- Mercedes-Benz Group Capital Market Presentation FY 2025
- 3rd Quarter Results 2026 | Mercedes-Benz Group > Investors > Reports & News > Interim Reports > Q3 2026
- Mercedes-Benz Group 2026 Financial Momentum
- Mercedes-Benz Capital Market Day Presentation, Harald Wilhelm
Google News Kenya (KE:en)reuters.com2
ad-hoc-news.de1
autohaus.de1
Automotive Worldautomotiveworld.com1
Berliner Morgenpostmorgenpost.de1
Berliner Zeitungberliner-zeitung.de最初1
放送時の内容
- Mercedes is withholding German factory investment while demanding longer hours without extra pay.
- On November 13, we reported that Mercedes had halted further investment and was reviewing possible factory closures. Management's position is now clearer. It is withholding new investment pending a cost agreement, and threatening to build future models abroad if talks fail.
- Decisions about the next generation of vehicles are due now, putting future factory work into these negotiations. What concessions is management demanding, and what would workers get in return?
- Mercedes says decisions about its next vehicles can't wait. Production chief Michael Schiebe says today's German cost structure prevents investment. That gives the spending suspension consequences beyond this year's expenditure, because future products bring future work to the factories chosen to build them.
- The board communicated its collective decision on November 12. Schiebe described stopping “all further investment” in German sites. Management and employee representatives have spent months negotiating savings without an agreement. The company is using that suspension to press for changes to employees' time and compensation.
- Human resources chief Britta Seeger says Mercedes must examine which German sites it can afford. She says closures should be avoided “at all costs,” while also saying management must pursue that option more concretely. Her preference leaves the possibility of closures open.
- The warning about two facilities goes back to September. Schiebe said failed cost reductions could mean closing one vehicle assembly plant and one powertrain plant, which makes vehicle components. Mercedes hasn't announced a closure decision or named either location. Repeating that warning doesn't identify two factories now selected to shut.
- The disagreement is whether overseas production is already decided or depends on failed negotiations. Schiebe's warning includes that condition. He says new models would be built exclusively abroad if no agreement is reached, making future production another point of pressure in the talks.
- Management's demands reach directly into the working week. Employees currently work on a 35-hour basis. A move to 40 hours without a corresponding pay increase has been discussed. Seeger argues longer hours could raise productivity while leaving employees' pay unchanged. The hourly calculation shows what that would mean for workers.
- Moving from 35 to 40 hours would add five hours a week, or 14.3 percent more time. With weekly pay unchanged, hourly pay would fall 12.5 percent. Management has discussed this proposal; employees haven't agreed to it.
- A 38-hour option also surfaced in September. Mercedes confirmed discussions about longer hours without extra pay, without confirming that precise schedule. Employee representatives regard preserving the 35-hour week as a red line and a central collective-bargaining achievement.
- IG Metall says 5,000 Mercedes employees protested in Bremen and 300 in Hamburg against proposed changes affecting working time, benefits and jobs. Those protests concerned the cost-cutting demands. They shouldn't be taken as a newly announced response to the investment freeze.
- Subscribe to this channel to follow the cost talks and what they mean for Mercedes workers.
- Management also wants changes to profit sharing and other voluntary benefits, along with holiday and Christmas payments covered by collective agreements. The reductions are still being discussed. Alongside these company-specific talks, IG Metall is seeking a five percent raise in bargaining across the metal and electrical industry.
- Sindelfingen, Rastatt and Bremen are existing assembly locations. Mercedes hasn't named them as closure targets. Berlin-Marienfelde and Ludwigsfelde have also been raised as potentially exposed locations, but the company hasn't selected either for closure. The industrial footprint alone doesn't identify where cuts would fall.
- Seeger called the five percent sector wage demand excessive, saying it would increase German labor costs she already considers too high. She also said the board would make financial sacrifices, and managers had gone without increases in two pay rounds. She gave no amount for the board's contribution.
- The German network is described as 12 production sites, while a narrower breakdown lists three assembly plants and seven parts plants. Those categories haven't been fully reconciled. None of these counts tells workers how many jobs might be affected by the review.
- Schiebe's strongest numerical argument concerns the cost of an hour of production work. He says German costs are, in some cases, up to five times those at Eastern European sites. That measures hourly production labor costs. It doesn't show how much labor costs for each completed car.
- Schiebe hasn't identified the comparison plants or explained how productivity affects his calculation. Management also claims a large administrative-cost gap. Mercedes has a reported five-billion-euro savings target through 2027, but whether that means cumulative savings or an annual savings rate is unclear.
- The commercial pressure includes weaker Chinese demand, price competition and tariffs. Mercedes also faces slower-than-expected electric-vehicle demand in Europe and North America. These pressures help explain the push for savings, but they don't identify which German plant management considers unaffordable.
- Mercedes' 2025 backdrop included a roughly 19 percent decline in Chinese sales. China historically accounted for about a third of passenger-car sales. The company put the 2025 profit cost of US tariffs at about one billion euros, or 1.1 billion dollars.
- Those are dated background figures already reported in the November 13 update. They don't measure the effect of this investment suspension. The immediate bargaining position is that employees are being asked to give more working time and accept lower additional payments while future investment is withheld.
- Mercedes has identified a cost-cutting agreement as the route back to investment. It hasn't explained whether already-committed projects will continue. Workers also still lack a plant-by-plant outcome or a quantified job-security guarantee in return for the concessions management is seeking.
- The board hasn't published a restart date. Management is withholding further German investment until a cost agreement is reached, but it hasn't said which concessions would be enough to release the money.
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