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Emden (dpa / lni) - Due to delivery problems with important components, the workforce at the VW plant in Emden is facing short-time work, according to the works council.
The car manufacturer is expected to apply for short-time working for around 9,000 permanent employees for around two weeks, as the works council announced on request.
According to initial forecasts, the tapes should rest from next week.
Volkswagen itself did not confirm this.
A decision on this should only be made on Wednesday.
Then the group wanted to inform, it said.
Several media had previously reported.
The reason given for the temporary shutdown is a bottleneck in semiconductor components.
Semiconductor materials are found in numerous high-tech products such as microchips in electronic systems in cars.
According to the works council, around 1,000 cars are currently being built in the Emden plant - with a production downtime for around ten working days, around 10,000 fewer new cars could roll off the assembly line.
What that means for the annual production - whether the failure can possibly be made up is not yet foreseeable, according to the works council.
In December just before Christmas, VW had indicated bottlenecks due to supplier problems with semiconductors and warned that production could be throttled in individual locations in China, Europe and North America in the first quarter of 2021.
During the slump in car sales at the beginning of the Corona crisis, many chip manufacturers switched their supplies to consumer electronics - the car business, which had recently been improving, then felt bottlenecks.