Ashok Leyland Announces 5 Non-working Days at Chennai Plant as Auto Sector's Woes

Chennai, September 7, 2019:

The Chennai-headquartered automaker Ashok Leyland has announced that it will shut down its production facility for five days from Friday due to “contraction in the commercial vehicle market”.

The company has issued notice to the employees that the plant will not be working on September 6 and 7 of this week and September 10 and 11 of next week, while September 9 has already been declared as sixth non-working day, the Business Standard Reported. In August 2019, Ashok Leyland reported a 50 percent drop in vehicle sales to 8,296 units.

This comes amid a slump in the automobile industry. Earlier on Thursday, Maruti Suzuki announced a two-day shutdown at its Gurugram and Manesar production units on September 7 and 9.

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