Boeing lays off up to 180 at engineering unit

NEW DELHI: Boeing has laid off up to 180 employees at its Boeing India Engineering Technology Center (BIETC) in Bengaluru as part of a global downsizing exercise. Boeing senior VP & president of Boeing Global, Dr Brendan Nelson, has confirmed this to TOI.
“We are right sizing the company. As part of that, 150-180 Boeing employees in India (have been laid off),” he said. It is learnt that of 7,000 employees of Boeing in India, almost 6,500 are at BIETC in Bengaluru and Chennai. These centres “undertake complex advanced aerospace work and support Boeing’s global engineering growth
Boeing says India is key to its revival plans and that sourcing from here will increase as aircraft production goes up.