NEW DELHI: Japan’s Toyota said yesterday it has hired 1,000 contract workers to help restart production, after its employees refused to return to work following an end to a eight-day company lockout.
The Toyota workers and its management at two plants near Bangalore are at loggerheads over pay issues, which they have been negotiating for 10 months.
The employees refused to resume work after the company lifted an eight-day lockout on Monday. “As regular employees did not resume duties .... we’re using services of 1,000 contract labour to restart production,” a company executive, who asked to remain anonymous, said.
Toyota Kirloskar Motor Private Ltd, the Indian unit of the world’s biggest carmaker, issued a statement confirming it was hiring contract labour to help restart the twin factories. AFP
