has launched a voluntary redundancyprogramme, aiming to shed 800 workers.
A high-ranking Toyota executive who asked not to be named said the company needed to launch the redundancy programme because the situation at Toyota's three auto plants in Thailand was pretty bad.
Not only have domestic sales shrunk, but the global economic situation has become more fragile after Brexit.
"Toyota has relocated employees among the three plants over the past 2-3 years toimplement economies of scale and has slowed down production time to let every worker have a job to do," the source said.