Jaguar Land Rover

Type
Internal restructuring
Country
United Kingdom
Region
Location of affected unit(s)
Sector
Manufacturing
(29 - 30) Manufacture for transport equipment
29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
29.10 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
100 - 200 jobs
Number of planned job losses
Job loss
Announcement Date
13 October 2020
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date

Description

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), the British care manufacturer, has announced that it has started a voluntary redundancy programme to cut up to 200 jobs, affecting employees, including management staff, who have been on the UK Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme since April. The company has not announced which sites are affected by the redundancies.

A spokesperson for JLR said it was 'prudent' to cut jobs and emphasised that the affected staff had been 'out of the business for more than seven months'.

Jaguar Land Rover is the UK’s largest carmaker, which employed 33,000 workers before the COVID-19 crisis started. In June the company announced plans to cut over 1,000 contract-agency jobs.

Sources

Citation

Eurofound (2020), Jaguar Land Rover, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 102398, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/102398.