Bosch in Braga resumes normal operations this Monday, the 24th, ending the ‘lay-off’ that had been in force since the beginning of the month due to the shortage of components, and which affected 2,500 workers.
In a note sent to the Lusa agency last Wednesday, the German multinational said that the Braga factory would be able to “produce without the need to resort to a ‘lay-off’ regime” from today, as a result of a “more continuous supply of components and the mitigation measures implemented”.
Thus, “the employment contracts of affected employees will once again be fully active”, he said.
However, and “depending on the general situation of component shortages and developments in commercial policy”, Bosch said it cannot “exclude, in principle, future production interruptions or adjustments to working hours”.
According to him, there are currently “disturbances in production and temporary adjustments to working hours” at the Bosch factories in Ansbach and Salzgitter, both located in Germany.
At issue is the insufficiency of electronic components coming from Nexperia, one of the Bosch group’s suppliers, following a dispute between that company and the Dutch Government, which intervened in the company at the end of September because it considered that its director, the Chinese Zhang Xuezheng, could compromise the European supply of semiconductors.
Ensuring that it is “giving absolute priority to all fronts” to “maintain its supply chains and avoid or minimize production restrictions”, Bosch says it “faces the future with confidence”, despite the current situation continuing to “pose significant challenges”.
The German multinational says it is following current developments in trade policy “very closely” and is recording “the first steps towards a political dialogue between the parties involved”, which leads it to maintain “hope for a lasting solution”.
Bosch de Braga announced on October 28th that it would go into ‘lay-off’ from November and “until presumably” April 2026, which affected 2,500 workers.
The ‘lay-off’ consists of the temporary reduction of normal working periods or suspension of employment contracts carried out on the initiative of companies, for a certain period of time, due to market reasons, structural or technological reasons or catastrophes or other occurrences that have seriously affected the company’s normal activity.