WASHINGTON: Boeing Co said Wednesday it was eliminating more than 12,000 U.S. jobs, including laying off 6,770 U.S. workers as the largest American planemaker restructures in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
Boeing also disclosed it plans"several thousand remaining layoffs" in the next few months but did not say where those would take place.The company announced in April it would cut 10per cent of its worldwide workforce of 160,000 by the end of 2020. Boeing said Wednesday it had approved 5,520 U.S. employees to take voluntary layoffs and they will leave Boeing in the coming weeks. Boeing also disclosed it is notifying 6,770 workers this week of involuntary layoffs.
In April, Boeing recorded zero orders for the second time this year and customers canceled another 108 orders for its grounded 737 MAX plane, compounding its worst start to a year since 1962.The pandemic worsened a crisis for the company in which the 737 MAX was grounded last year after the second of two fatal crashes.
Last month, Boeing raised US$25 billion in a bond offering that allowed the company avoid taking government aid.
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