News Digest Item
02 Jan 2017

“E.ON wants to cut jobs in Essen”

Rheinische Post

One year after its split, renewables utility E.ON needs to lower costs and is eyeing cuts in administrative jobs at its headquarters in Essen, CEO Johannes Teyssen told the Rheinische Post in an article by Antje Höning. The extent of the job cuts remains unclear, the CEO said. Renewables rival innogy, born from the split of utility RWE in 2016, also plans to cut costs, the paper writes, citing an innogy spokesman. He said the company currently did not plan any job cuts, but also did not rule them out in the future. E.ON employs 43,000 people around the world, and innogy 42,000, according to the article.

Read the report in German here.

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