Holden making production line changes
Car maker Holden says it will change the shift rotations at its Adelaide production plant.
Workers are to do two assembly line jobs during any single shift instead of six.
Executive director of manufacturing Richard Phillips said the change at the Elizabeth plant was being made for the launch of the new Commodore model.
"What we have done is reduce the number of jobs or operations employees are expected to remember over the course of a shift," he said.
"Employees will now perform two jobs, versus the current six jobs, to enable us to focus on building and launching the best Commodore ever.
"This means our team members will still rotate between jobs approximately every two hours and there is no change to the shift or break structure."
Holden said it had discussed the planned change with unions and it was likely to be introduced in the next two weeks, affecting about 1,300 workers.
Mr Phillips could not rule out workers having their hours reduced to meet market demand for vehicles.
"I'm not going to make any confirmation around what the market may or may not do between now and August, but certainly we're very focused on building up the current range of Commodores and introducing this fantastic new VF Commodore and that's what the organisation is focused on," he said.