Autoeuropa will resume normal operations on October 23.

Autoeuropa’s Palmela car plant will resume normal operations on October 23 and increase production to 934 vehicles per day from November 6, the Works Commission said on Tuesday.

In a statement released on Tuesday, CT said the company’s planned production increase involves “an increase of 32 workers across four shifts at the assembly site with the opening of several stations” and added that the company had already “required that these workers be hired directly by Autoeuropa” .

CT also promises to pay close attention to the workload on the assembly lines of the Volkswagen plant in Palmela, Setúbal district.

With the resumption of normal production on October 23, the layoff regime that has been in place at Autoeuropa since September 11, the date when the company was forced to suspend production due to the lack of a part produced at a plant in Slovenia, which was badly damaged by the floods that occurred in that country last August of the year.

The “cuts” regime provides for a drop in workers’ incomes that can reach 33% of their salary, but thanks to the agreement signed between the administration and CT, approximately 5,000 Autoeuropa workers have had their incomes reduced. lower yield, only 5%.

In internal communications, CT also states that it has asked the company to provide severance discounts only in November so that workers would feel less of the financial impact, but has not yet received a response.

Autoeuropa initially planned to resume operations on November 12, but Volkswagen guaranteed the supply of the missing part from a Spanish and Chinese supplier, which allowed the resumption of production to be postponed, albeit partially, to October 2.

The stoppage of production at the Volkswagen plant in Palmela also affected thousands of workers at supplier companies, including workers from around two dozen companies located in the Autoeuropa Industrial Park, some of which were entirely dependent on production at the Volkswagen plant.

With the resumption of normal production at Autoeuropa, around a hundred of the company’s temporary workers are expected to return to work immediately, but the future of the vast majority of the remaining 325 temporary workers from various companies in the industrial park remains uncertain. It is not yet known whether they will all return to work.