Volkswagen plans to limit the time staff can remain in certain roles, its supervisory board chairman has said, in a step to improve oversight at the German carmaker.
The company admitted in September it had cheated US emissions tests and installed software capable of deceiving regulators, wiping billions of euros off its market value and forcing out its longstanding chief executive, Martin Winterkorn.
“We are planning a rotation principle for certain functions. The employees concerned will spend only a limited time in certain positions before moving on,” said the chairman, Hans Dieter Pötsch, in an interview with Welt am Sonntag.
Earlier this month, the carmaker said only a small group of employees was responsible for the incidents and there was no indication that board members were involved in what has become the biggest business crisis in VW’s history.
It said then that future engine software would be developed “with a four-eye principle”.
Pötsch told Welt am Sonntag that increasing job rotations would pose a challenge due to the high complexity of some of the roles, but said VW could draw on the expertise of staff across the group.
“It’s easier said than done. There are few employees that are able to programme an engine control unit. But we have these people across the different brands. For example, experts at Audi could switch to Porsche and from Porsche to VW and so on,” Pötsch was quoted as saying.
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