Continental Threatens Engineers
According to German media sources Continental is threatening engineers to relocate development resources from Hanover to countries such as the Czech Republic, Romania or Malaysia if they do not agree on proposals to increase weekly working times from 37.5 to 40 hours – without an increase in earnings.
Negociations between employees and the German tyre manufacturer will be held early next week. If an agreement is not reached130 jobs in the R&D department, where there are 700 employees in total, would be threatened according to Bernhard Trilken, chief of truck tyre development in Hanover-Stöcken.
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