Maruti Suzuki to employ 500 workers at Manesar facility

Maruti Suzuki India, country’s largest vehicle maker is likely to employ about 500 workers in this fiscal for the second unit at Manesar facility, which was operationalised last year.

The company will hire people of different verticals like technicians, diploma engineer trainees and laterals for the second unit. It has started wage negotiations for a three-year period with its workers at the Gurgaon facility, while the same for the Manesar plant employees is likely to start within next 2 to 3 weeks.

At the Manesar facility, the company is planning to invest over Rs 3,625 crore to set up two new plants with 2.5 lakh annual capacities each. While the second unit was opened last year, the third one is scheduled to be operational in 2012-13.