Increased regular holidays to eliminate labor shortages Work style reforms also in the truck industry on December 10 at 6:32
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Truck maker Mitsubishi Fuso Trucks and Buses has begun to take measures such as increasing the number of regular holidays at a store with a maintenance shop in order to resolve the shortage of car mechanics. In addition to the restaurant and retail industries, the trend of work style reform is expanding.
Mitsubishi Fuso Trucks and Buses will increase the number of regular holidays from 1 month every month at 194 directly managed stores nationwide, where sales and maintenance are conducted, and will be closed on the second Saturday. Is shortened by one and a half hours.
At these stores, there are about 2,200 car mechanics working together, and the company is trying to increase recruitment because the technology of maintenance is becoming more advanced as trucks become more electrified.
On the other hand, against the backdrop of the declining birthrate and young people leaving the car, there is a shortage of mechanics, and the goal is to promote work style reforms, such as making it easier for employees to take consecutive holidays on weekends, and to secure human resources.
Mr. Satoshi Daine, General Manager of the Customer Service Sales Department of Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus, says, “In the future, as needs for electrification increase, it will be necessary to improve not only development and sales but also maintenance technologies. I want to accept many mechanics. "
In the truck industry, Isuzu Motors is also taking measures such as shortening the business hours at stores in the Tokyo metropolitan area and Kansai, and work style reforms to deal with labor shortages are wide-ranging not only in the restaurant and retail industries. It extends to the industry.