Following on from similar moves at automakers, Japan's biggest bearing maker NSK plans to dismiss about 2,000 temporary workers at domestic plants, company sources have said.
Following on from similar moves at automakers, Japan’s biggest bearing maker NSK plans to dismiss about 2,000 temporary workers at domestic plants, company sources have said.
That would account for about 80% of workers supplied through agencies.
These workers are on contracts that will expire by the end of March, the sources told Kyodo News, adding the company does not plan to let go any workers before the end of their contracts.
Former temporary workers at Isuzu in Tochigi prefecture have filed suit against the truck maker for axing them before agreed terms expired.
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