Production in Toyota did not resume after a plant-wide holiday that ended on August 15. The production lines started for the first time this week, but the production was only a few hundred cars. Normally, the Cologne carmaker produces about 1,000 cars a day.
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Employees receive 80 percent of the average salary. But most of them are at work, for example, they go to various trainings. “We monitor the situation on a daily basis,” Paroubek said.
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The planned production of the Yaris has not yet been launched at the Cologne carmaker. It is to be launched this year, but due to the lack of chips, the start of production is being postponed. The date of the ceremonial launch of the production line on Yaris is not yet known.
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Not only the Toyota in Cologne has problems, but also other car manufacturers. The summer outage in Škoda Auto, for example, was a week longer. In the Mladá Boleslav car factory, some shifts are still being canceled, problems are expected at least throughout the autumn.
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Škoda Auto employees receive 85 percent of their average earnings for canceled shifts, which corresponds to their usual daily earnings.
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Toyota Motor Manufacturing Czech Republic employs about 2,500 people in Cologne, last year on April 1 it started recruiting new employees for the production of the Yaris model, it wants to hire up to 1,000 people.
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It represents one of the largest exporters in the Czech Republic and at the same time the largest employer in the Kolín region. According to the Association of the Automotive Industry, the production of cars at the Kolín car manufacturer fell by 26.4 percent to 147,865 cars last year.
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