Honda Motor said on Saturday it was dismissing about 900 contract workers at a joint venture in China, as Japanese automakers suffer from a rapid shift to electric vehicles in the world's largest car market.
"Production volume is decreasing, so dispatch contracts are terminated in line with that," the spokesperson said of the employees, hired through dispatch agencies, at Honda's venture with China's state-owned Guangzhou Automobile Group.
The reduction amounts to about 7% of the venture's workforce of about 13,000, the spokesperson said, declining to say for which models production was being cut.
