DETROIT – Jeep and Chrysler mother or father firm Stellantis is providing buyouts to a few of its 13,000 U.S. salaried workers, because the automaker makes an attempt to chop jobs and realign its workforce for electrical autos and software program providers.

To be eligible, workers should be no less than 55 years previous and have been with the corporate for 10 years or have 30 years of service and have a pension. Workers have been notified of the buyout affords Friday. They’ve till Dec. 5 to decide.

A Stellantis spokeswoman declined to say what number of home salaried workers are eligible for this system, or whether or not the automaker has a goal for what number of employees it want to take the packages.

“As a part of our transformation to grow to be a sustainable tech mobility firm and the market chief in low-emission autos, in October we supplied sure salaried U.S. workers the choice to voluntarily separate from the corporate with a positive bundle of advantages that in any other case wouldn’t be accessible to them,” she mentioned in an emailed assertion.

The automaker, which was fashioned by the merger of Fiat Chrysler and France-based Groupe PSA in January 2021, supplied related buyouts a yr in the past to pension-eligible workers. It cited related causes for these buyout affords.

Stellantis is no less than the second Detroit automaker this yr looking for to chop worker headcounts, as the businesses spend billions of {dollars} in electrical autos and rising software program providers.

Ford Motor mentioned in August it was chopping a complete of three,000 salaried and contract jobs, principally in North America, because the automaker makes an attempt to decrease prices as a part of restructuring efforts underneath CEO Jim Farley.

The nation’s largest automaker, Common Motors, has made such cuts in previous years however not in 2022. GM Chief Monetary Officer Paul Jacobson on Tuesday mentioned the corporate has “no plans for any main workforce reductions.”

“We introduced actually sort of early within the yr that we have been slowing down hiring and solely changing key departures or vital wants,” Jacobson advised reporters when discussing GM’s third-quarter earnings. “That was an effort to attempt to be sure that we’re slowing down the speed of headcount progress and ensuring that we’re proactively positioning ourselves.”