Overview

• Mulhouse will halt its final assembly line from 27 October to 2 November, affecting about 2,000 of the site’s 4,700 employees, according to the company.
• Sochaux plans non‑working days tied to supplier capacity limits for PHEV and Long Range variants, with Friday shifts on 10, 17 and 24 October and night shifts on 5 and 31 October canceled for roughly 2,500 of 6,500 workers.
• Stellantis says it will use the downtime for maintenance and employee training to support industrial performance while managing year‑end stock levels.
• Unions criticized the stoppages, with the CFE‑CGC warning about site stability and the CGT estimating a 16% pay loss for each non‑worked day at Sochaux.
• The new pauses add to a three‑week October suspension at Poissy affecting about 2,000 workers, and follow reported short closures or reduced schedules at Eisenach, Zaragoza, Madrid, Tychy and Pomigliano.