VW to improve oversight by rotating staff in key roles

Berlin

GERMAN car giant Volkswagen, scrambling to contain a massive pollution test cheating scandal, said on Sunday that it would begin rotating staff to keep better tabs on its operations.

Employees in key roles will switch jobs more often than is currently the case, VW supervisory board chief Hans Dieter Poetsch said in an interview with the Welt am Sonntag newspaper. He said that the new personnel plan was intended to break up long-standing structures that allowed rules to be broken in secret.