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Toyota to hire contract workers
Toyota to hire contract workers as sales recover
Posted Tuesday, Sep 8, 2009, 1:01 pm in Employee News
Toyota is hiring 800 contract workers in Japan in its first such job increase in more than a year amid signs of a global recovery led by brisk sales of its Prius hybrid, the Associated Press reported.
Most will start working next month at Toyota Motor Corp.’s Tsutsumi plant, central Japan, which makes the Prius and other models for the Japanese market, the world’s No. 1 automaker said Tuesday. Toyota now employs 1,300 contract workers in Japan, down from the peak of 11,600 employed in June 2005 when auto sales were booming, the AP said. Such workers are hired for limited periods unlike the 70,000 full-time workers in Japan, who are guaranteed “lifetime employment,” the news service said.
Toyota reduced its contract workers amid the global slump in auto sales by not renewing their contracts or promoting them to full-time, the AP said. The Japanese automaker employs more than 300,000 workers worldwide. Toyota has been struggling since global sales plunged last year. It stopped hiring contract workers in Japan in June last year, the story said. (Associated Press
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