General Motors to Lay Off 1,695 Workers at Kansas Fairfax Assembly Plant

General Motors has announced it will lay off a total of 1,695 employees from its Fairfax Assembly plant located in Kansas. This decision was conveyed through a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notice reported earlier this week.

The Schedule of Layoffs

According to a report in Automotive News, the layoffs will occur in two rounds. The first round, starting on November 18, will involve temporarily laying off 686 full-time workers and terminating 250 temporary employees. The second round, beginning on January 12, 2024, will see 759 full-time workers being temporarily laid off.

However, General Motors has not yet commented on the specifics of the layoffs when contacted by a Reuters representative.

Future Production Plans and Software Unit Reductions

The decision to lay off a significant number of workers was made following GM's announcement earlier this month regarding a pause in the production of the Cadillac XT4 post-January 2025 in Kansas. This halt will lead to layoffs of production employees until production resumes in late 2025 for both the Bolt EV and XT4 on the same assembly line.

In addition to the assembly plant layoffs, GM also announced in August that over 1,000 salaried employees at its software and service units will be laid off across the globe. This signaled a larger trend of workforce reductions within the company.