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Business Report writes that employment in South Africa’s vehicle manufacturing industry remained stable in the second quarter of the year, despite the depressed economy.
The total industry head count ticked up marginally by 0.5 percent or 159 jobs to 30 356 in the last week of June from 30 251 in the last week of April.
This is according to the latest quarterly review of business conditions in the new vehicle manufacturing industry for the second quarter released this week by the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa (Naamsa).
Nico Vermeulen, the director of Naamsa, said yesterday that the stable employment in the industry was encouraging in an economy where every few days one or other company or sector was reporting a reduction in head count.
The quarterly review said that with the exception of the fourth quarter of last year, industry employment had remained stable over the past four years.
Industry employment declined by 6 percent or 1 900 jobs to 29 489 at end-December, from 31 389 in the last week of October last year.
Naamsa at the time attributed this fairly substantial decline largely to the lay-off of temporary workers at three major industry plants.
Average industry employment last year was 30 953, compared to 31 260 in 2015.
The slight increase in industry employment levels in the second quarter of this year was driven by an improvement in production capacity utilisation levels for cars, light commercial and medium commercial vehicles. The capacity utilisation levels for heavy trucks and buses declined substantially to 68.1 percent in the second quarter from 74.3 percent in the
This report by Roy Cokayne is on page 20 of Business Report of 31 August 2017
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