--General Motors Co. (GM) announced Tuesday it was cutting jobs related to the production of its plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Volt, which will cease production, Reuters reports.

--GM said 50 workers at a battery plant in suburban Detroit and 700 workers at the company's Detroit-Hamtramck plant, where the Volt and other mothballed models are made, will be laid off, the report said.

--Last month, the Detroit auto maker announced it would end production at five plants in Michigan, Ohio, Maryland and Canada.

Full story: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gm-restructuring/gm-cutting-50-jobs-at-u-s-battery-plant-tied-to-chevy-volt-idUSKBN1OH1XD

--Write to Stephen Nakrosis at stephen.nakrosis@wsj.com

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

December 18, 2018 13:30 ET (18:30 GMT)

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