Production not carried out during these two months nears €400 million, according to Business Standard’s estimates, computed on a daily production value of some €8 million. This level was announced by Dacia’s press office last year, without considering technological flows.
Employees who will be laid off temporarily will receive 85 percent of their gross individual salaries, the company announced. Dacia could lay off some 4,000 employees this year, of a total 14,000, after having decided to halve production in 2009, according to Ovidiu Jurca, Vice President of the National Trade Union Block (BNS).
“Dacia is forced to resort to this measure to adapt its production to the decline in orders. This decline is mainly visible in the case of Romania, the car maker’s main market, which absorbed over one third of the production of the Mioveni-based plant in 2008,” said Automobile Dacia.
