GM is preparing to lay-offs of employees in North America

The U.S. automaker General Motors said Wednesday that he would put unemployed technical employees in North America, following the recent decision of closing several of its assembly plants for up to three months.
"This is a temporary unemployment for our employees, for as long as the factories will be closed", told AFP Tom Wilkinson, a spokesman for the manufacturer.
GM will put at rest on prolonged 13 plants in North America between May and July, to reduce its stocks of unsold goods.
The spokesman was unable to quantify the number of employees, indicating that a production site employs on average between 100 and 200.
The aim of these measures is to allow GM to lock its bloated unsold, against a background of collapse of the U.S. market.
The group's production should be lowered from 190,000 units to reduce the levels of inventories among dealers to 525,000 units by the end of July, against 767,000 at the end of March.
The measures of temporary unemployment which GM has used in the past are generally shorter, a few weeks and did not affect the administrative staff. But the measures announced Thursday include up to three months of production for some of the sites concerned, need to take measures for employees, "said Wilkinson.
These employees will receive 75% of their wages until they return to a normal rhythm of work.