Sept 21 (Reuters) - General Motors ( GM ) will lay off

1,695 workers at its Fairfax Assembly plant in Kansas, the

company said in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification

notice earlier this week.

A GM spokesperson, confirming the layoffs initially reported

by Automotive News, said the first of two rounds will begin on

Nov. 18, affecting 686 full-time workers temporarily and

terminating 250 temporary employees.

Under the second phase, to begin on Jan. 12 of next year,

759 full-time workers will be temporarily laid off, the

spokesperson confirmed.

In May, GM said it would pause production of the Cadillac

XT4 after January 2025 in Kansas, resulting in layoffs of

production employees until manufacturing resumed in late 2025

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

"As previously announced in May, GM is investing

approximately $390 million in our Fairfax Assembly Plant to add

production of the new Chevrolet Bolt EV," the GM spokesperson

said in an emailed statement to Reuters on Saturday.

"To facilitate the installation of new tooling, employees

will be placed on a temporary layoff until production resumes in

mid-2025," the spokesperson added.

In August, the company also laid off more than 1,000

salaried employees worldwide across its software and service

units.