Porsche cuts back work week at Cayenne Plant

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Porsche to Cut Workweek at German Plant to 38 Hours, Focus Says

Source: Bloomberg-Porsche AG, the German sports-car maker, will reduce the workweek to 38 hours from 40 hours at its Leipzig plant in eastern Germany, the magazine Focus Money reported, without saying where it got the information.

The shorter workweek will begin in August in the plant where 300 employees make the Cayenne sports-utility vehicle, Focus said. Eastern German workers in IG Metall, Europe's biggest industrial union, have been striking since June 2 for a 35-hour week.

Porsche is negotiating a ``supplement to the contract'' governing work conditions with the union, the magazine said.