Factory workers in Brazil vote to lay themselves off.

Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service.

I'm William Lee Adams. Good morning.

Let's start in Brazil, where Toyota workers have voted overwhelmingly to temporarily leave their jobs,

though they will receive some pay.

The decision comes after intense storms

halted production at its factories in Sao Paulo state, well, the BBC's Katie Silver can tell us

more, Katie, hi. Hi. What's the scale of disruption that was caused? It was pretty significant.

There were heavy rains and winds, and it damaged two of the Porto Felice factories where Toyota makes engines,

basically forcing them to halt production there.

And in this specific factories, they make three of the Toyota models.

So they haven't been able to produce since.

And it's pretty unusual to hear about workers voting to lay themselves off.

What do we know about those

negotiations? So one of the key points negotiated as part of all this is that workers who earn

a gross salary of up to 10,000 raise, so that's about just over 1,800 US dollars a month

would be paid in full during the layoff period. So it is in that sense in

their favour. And in fact, they've really voted overwhelmingly about 3,700 voted in favour of about

4,500 that voted for this. Now, as part of the plan, the unions say that the layoff plan is

basically designed to protect their jobs and the incomes of the workers. It's technically going to start later next month, about October 21st,

and then it can be extended monthly up to a period of about six months.

And the stoppage really highlights the vulnerability of these production chains.

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