Sept 21 (Reuters) - General Motors ( GM ) will begin

laying off 1,695 workers at its Fairfax Assembly plant in

Kansas, the company said in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining

Notification (WARN) notice earlier this week.

The first of two rounds of layoffs will begin Nov. 18 and

will include the temporary layoff of 686 full-time workers and

the termination of 250 temporary employees, Automotive News

reported on Saturday citing a company filing to the state of

Kansas.

Starting Jan. 12, 759 full-time workers will be temporarily

laid off, the report added.

GM did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for

comment on the details of the latest layoffs.

Earlier in May, GM had said that it would pause production

of the Cadillac XT4 after January 2025 in Kansas, resulting in

layoffs of production employees until production resumes in late

2025 for both the Bolt EV and XT4 on the same assembly line.

The company had also said in August that it was laying off

more than 1,000 salaried employees at its software and service

units worldwide.