DMG Mori offers Russian staff other jobs if they don't support invasion
16/03/2022 10:32
DUESSELDORF, Germany, March 16 (Reuters) - German machine
tool maker DMG Mori GILG.DE has stopped doing business in
Russia and is offering staff there positions elsewhere if they
distance themselves from the invasion of Ukraine in writing, the
company said on Wednesday.
Some employees have already accepted such offers, Chief
Executive Christian Thoenes said.
The company, Europe's biggest machine tool makers, stopped
supplying machines, spare parts, components and services to
Russia on Feb. 24 and paid back deposits to customers, Thoenes
said.
Russia, where DMG has about 200 employees, accounts for less
than 2% of the company's revenues.
(Reporting by Anneli Palmen; writing by Maria Sheahan; editing
by Miranda Murray)
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