VW group unit Skoda will not add weekend shifts this month but insisted it was not cutting production.
"Having considered extra weekend shifts towards the end of the year, Skoda Auto has decided that these measures will not be necessary," Skoda said in an emailed statement to Reuters. "This is not about production cuts; production will be going ahead according to plan."
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Earlier, newspaper Mlada Fronta Dnes, citing unnamed sources, had said Skoda would reduce output at the end of the year by cutting work shifts and not adding Saturday shifts introduced in previous years.
The newspaper said the measures were a response to slowing markets in Europe and would include cutting more than three shifts on the Fabia and Rapid model production lines in December.
In its statement, Skoda told Reuters its decision not to increase the number of year end shifts was not related to the emissions scandal at parent group Volkswagen.
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