Toyota will start to lay off employees of the St. Petersburg plant in November-December

Toyota Motor Company will start to lay off the employees at the St. Petersburg plant in November-December. Employees leaving by agreement of the parties will receive significant compensation payments and retain VHI for a year after the dismissal. This was announced by the Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg, Valery Moskalenko.

According to him, the employer also plans to compensate for the costs of training or retraining employees. The total number of Toyota Motor employees, according to the company, as of September of this year was 2.35 thousand people, the Finmarket agency writes. Let us remind you that earlier Toyota Motor Company announced the closure of the plant in St. Petersburg due to the impossibility of rhythmic deliveries of the necessary components.

In the future, the enterprise will be mothballed, and at present the government of St. Petersburg, together with the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, are working out possible scenarios for the development of this production site. At the same time, the operating activities of the Moscow office of Toyota Motor will be optimized and restructured with a focus on supporting the dealer network to continue after-sales service for Toyota and Lexus cars in Russia.

The St. Petersburg Toyota plant has suspended its work since March 4, 2022 due to a break in supply chains. The company produced the Toyota Camry business sedan and the RAV4 crossover. The capacities of the Toyota Motor plant in St. Petersburg allow the production of up to 100,000 vehicles. For the whole history of the enterprise, more than 30 billion rubles have been invested in the development of production.