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Ovar Factory Layoffs: 163 Jobs Lost at Japanese Car Electronics Firm

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Ovar, Portugal – A wave of job losses is impacting the automotive sector in Portugal, as Japanese car electronics manufacturer Yazaki Saltano has announced
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Japanese company Yazaki Saltano will lay off 163 workers at its Ovar factory, after having dismissed more than 300 in mid-2025, having communicated the decision to those affected on Thursday, with immediate effect, a union source told Lusa today. “Yesterday [Thursday] they called the workers, communicated that they were going to proceed with the collective dismissal and have already excused them from showing up for work today,” Justino Pereira,…

“like elsewhere it is, the collective displacement will mainly cover people with age p xima of the age of reform and people with v niclos prec rios and therefore is the less time in the company”, warns the party led by Jos Manuel Pureza.

·Porto, Portugal
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Less than a year after sending more than 300 workers out, the Yazaki factory in Ovar has again reduced personnel, with the Japanese company moving forward towards a collective displacement which now reaches 163 employees.

·Portugal
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This is the second shipment in less than a year. The multinational had already spent more than 300 workers in March last year due to the crisis in the car sector in Europe.

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Jornal de Notícias broke the news in Portugal on Thursday, January 15, 2026.
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