Scania expects to rehire about 500 employees at its European production units.
[private]“In response to the continued recovery in global demand, we need to increase our workforce in order to handle a higher production rate during the third quarter,” says Anders Nielsen, Executive Vice President and Head of Production and Logistics.
The number of rehirings in the production network will be equivalent to one fourth of the fixed term temporary employees whose contracts were not renewed due to the sharp downturn that followed the 2008 financial crisis.
“We used the period of low production capacity utilisation to take steps to improve our methods and ways of working. The improvements that our employees have developed will result in a significant improvement of productivity,” says Mr Nielsen.
Since late 2008, the number of employees in Scania’s production network has decreased by about 3,000, including 2,000 fixed term temporary employees whose contracts were not renewed. The rest of the decrease was due to a freeze on replacement recruitment resulting from retirements etc.[/private]
