<p>Maruti Suzuki ended a 13-day strike by employees that had crippled production and led to more than $90 million in lost output for India's largest car maker, a spokesman said on Friday.</p>.<p> About 800 workers had been on strike since June 4 at the Manesar plant in the northern state of Haryana, demanding recognition of a new union specific to the plant. The company has one workers' union recognized by the management.</p>.<p> The spokesman said the company would not recognize a new union but would look into forming an individual body at the plant. However, a decision on this has not been made yet and the details are still being discussed, he said.</p>.<p> The company, which operates two manufacturing facilities in India, also agreed to reinstate 11 workers who had been fired on grounds of indiscipline, the spokesman said.</p>.<p> Maruti, already slammed by a massive slowdown in sales, has faced a production loss of 12,600 units as of Thursday. That translates into an estimated loss of 4.2 billion rupees ($93.5 million) for a company that makes half the cars sold in Asia's third-largest economy.</p>.<p> The company, 54.2 percent-owned by Japan's Suzuki Motor Corp, posted its slowest pace of growth in more than two years last month. It reported a 1.9 percent rise in May sales this year, compared with a 28-percent rise a year earlier.</p>.<p> India's auto sector has seen spurts of industrial unrest over the past two years.</p>.<p> The strike has raised questions over how India will preserve its status as a low-cost manufacturing base while avoiding growing discontent among employees.</p>.<p> India's labour laws are rated by the World Bank as among the most rigid and some analysts say they hurt corporate competitiveness in Asia's third-largest economy.</p>
<p>Maruti Suzuki ended a 13-day strike by employees that had crippled production and led to more than $90 million in lost output for India's largest car maker, a spokesman said on Friday.</p>.<p> About 800 workers had been on strike since June 4 at the Manesar plant in the northern state of Haryana, demanding recognition of a new union specific to the plant. The company has one workers' union recognized by the management.</p>.<p> The spokesman said the company would not recognize a new union but would look into forming an individual body at the plant. However, a decision on this has not been made yet and the details are still being discussed, he said.</p>.<p> The company, which operates two manufacturing facilities in India, also agreed to reinstate 11 workers who had been fired on grounds of indiscipline, the spokesman said.</p>.<p> Maruti, already slammed by a massive slowdown in sales, has faced a production loss of 12,600 units as of Thursday. That translates into an estimated loss of 4.2 billion rupees ($93.5 million) for a company that makes half the cars sold in Asia's third-largest economy.</p>.<p> The company, 54.2 percent-owned by Japan's Suzuki Motor Corp, posted its slowest pace of growth in more than two years last month. It reported a 1.9 percent rise in May sales this year, compared with a 28-percent rise a year earlier.</p>.<p> India's auto sector has seen spurts of industrial unrest over the past two years.</p>.<p> The strike has raised questions over how India will preserve its status as a low-cost manufacturing base while avoiding growing discontent among employees.</p>.<p> India's labour laws are rated by the World Bank as among the most rigid and some analysts say they hurt corporate competitiveness in Asia's third-largest economy.</p>