Nissan Motor Co. will hire 150 temporary workers at its U.K. factory next month because it expects a government incentive plan to spur vehicle sales.
The Sunderland factory will employ the contract workers for four months, Mitsuru Yonekawa, a Tokyo-based Nissan spokesman, said Monday. The carmaker said in January it would cut about 1,200 jobs at the plant because of falling sales.
The U.K. follows Germany and France in offering purchase incentives to motorists to stimulate auto demand as the global recession stalls sales. U.K. car buyers will get payments of £2,000 ($3,043) when they trade in old cars for new ones under the plan.