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Job cuts at Jaguar Land Rover
16 October 2008
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has announced that it is looking for 198 employees to take voluntary redundancy before the end of the year.
The job cuts will take place across all three of JLR’s UK plants, which employ around 16,000 staff altogether, and will come mostly from hourly-paid contract staff rather than full-time salaried employees. Staff are being offered nine months pay as incentive to leave, plus standard pension if they’re eligible.
Don Hume, director for JLR corporate and governmental affairs, told Autocar that the decision “is more to do with our ongoing drive for efficiency rather than the credit crunch.”
JLR, now owned by Tata, has already taken action as a result of the economic slow down. Land Rover’s Solihull plant has gone to a four day week and Jaguar’s Halewood factory is due to stop production for a week at the end of October due to falling X-Type sales.
Vicky Parrott
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