General Motors to lay off 1,700 workers at Kansas plant
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General Motors (NYSE:GM) will lay off nearly 1,700 employees at its Fairfax Assembly and Stamping plant in Kansas, the automaker said earlier this week.
The automaker made this announcement in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filed with the Kansas Department of Commerce.
The plant in Kansas City, Kansas, opened in 1987 and produces the Chevrolet Malibu sedan and Cadillac XT4 SUV. It employs about 2,300 workers, according to GM.
A GM spokesperson was quoted as saying by the Detroit Free Press that the layoffs are “temporary” while the company spends $390 million to retool the plant to produce the Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicle. Production at the plant is expected to restart in the middle of 2025, the spokesperson reportedly said.
The layoffs of 680 workers will begin on November 18, the report said.
GM earlier this year said it would discontinue the Malibu in November.
According to the Free Press, production of the XT4 will be paused in January, with the remaining temporary layoffs to begin then. The GM spokesperson reportedly told the newspaper that production of the SUV will restart when the retooling is completed.
The news was first reported by Automotive News.
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