Rising truck demand in Brazil leads to overtime at Mercedes-Benz and MAN truck plants

摘要

Brazil - Following a negative period whereby staff were asked to take vacations, participate in reduced working hours and some voluntary redundancies, the Mercedes-Benz do Brasil truck plant in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Sao Paulo is now seeking staff members to work overtime two Saturdays a month to increase truck production to meet growth in domestic demand, according to Philipp Schiemer, president of Mercedes-Benz do Brasil and CEO to Latin America.