Peugeot-Citroen to Cut the Night Shift at Sochaux Plant to Cope with Falling Demand

French automaker PSA Peugeot Citroen plans to cut the night shift at its Sochaux plant in East France from the beginning of February to cope with falling sales, a spokesman said. A total of 1,200 night workers on the Peugeot 308 compact saloon line will be affected by the plans, which will soon be presented to workers, a spokesman said. Of these, 300 workers on fixed-term contracts will be retrained and 900 fixed-term workers will not have their contracts renewed, he said. There will be no layoffs. He said there's no denying it: In 2009 we are in a period of crisis and we continue to adapt to this crisis. The company hopes to launch a new team to work on a different assembly line making the Peugeot 3008 at the site at the end of the first half of 2009, providing market conditions allow, he said.