Nissan Australia has started laying off 50 workers at its aluminium casting plant in Victoria as overseas orders for its engines and parts dry up.
The axings, which will take place at the Dandenong South plant over Wednesday and Thursday, follow production cuts in Japan and the United States being down 35 per cent.
Nissan Australia spokesman Jeff Fisher said nearly all the die-cast aluminium and transmission parts produced by the plant were sent overseas.
The announcement of the job losses came in December and Fisher said Nissan was helping sacked workers with counselling and assistance in finding new jobs.
The cuts underline the job losses underway in the motor manufacturing industry. In November 2008, Ford Australia sacked 350 workers from its Victorian plants in Geelong and Broadmeadows.
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