TOKYO—Citing sharp declines in demand, NEC Corp. is asking 6,600 semiconductor plant workers to stay at home with reduced pay for one to three days a month in November and December.
The workers, who will be from eight different plants, will receive 80 percent of their usual pay, said NEC. Previously this year, the company similarly ordered 9,000 clerical workers to take an extra day off work per month for the rest of the year. More recently, 800 workers were told to stay home after a central Japan semiconductor plant stopped running temporarily to scale down production, a move that followed the company’s six-day shut down of lines at another southwestern Japan plant, affecting 1,000 workers.
NEC posted a $245 million loss for the first fiscal half of 2001, which ended in September.
