BANGKOK — General Motors will begin laying off around 1,500 employees in Thailand in June, after announcing the sale of its production facilities in the country, a government official said on Wednesday.
GM said on Monday it would sell its plants in the eastern industrial province of Rayong to China’s Great Wall Motor. Its latest moves to retreat from Asia also included winding down its Australian and New Zealand operations.
Jak Punchoopet, adviser to the Minister of Labor, told Reuters all of the employees at the Rayong powertrain and assembly plants would be laid off under the terms of GM’s sale agreement with Great Wall.
