Jaguar Land Rover shuts ALL UK plants for three weeks over coronavirus

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Jaguar Land Rover to axe 2,000 jobs



Thousands of jobs are set to be axed at Coventry car maker Jaguar Land Rover.

The company has launched a “full review” into the structure of the firm with 2,000 roles lost across the business over the next financial year, which starts on April 6.

JLR employs more than 31,000 people across the UK, including at its global headquarters in Whitley, factories in Solihull, Castle Bromwich and Wolverhampton, plus an engineering centre in Gaydon, Warwickshire.

The cuts will affect 'salaried staff', non-manufacturing role, as part of the process of streamlining the business, including managers, design technicians and administration staff, but not factory staff.

The news comes days after the company said it would be ‘steam lining’ the non-manufacturing side of the business and becoming an all-electric manufacturer within a decade.

New boss Thierry Bolloré revealed the existing layers of management would be reduced during his first press conference in his new role on Monday.

At that time no numbers of staff affected was provided by him or the company.

The job losses were confirmed in a memo to staff which stated the positions to be lost were across the business.

A former Unite official, Gerard Coyne, called the news an “issue of grave concern”.

He said: “Two thousand job losses in the current economic climate is clearly an issue of grave concern for those people faced with losing their jobs over the next 12 months.”

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You are watching a re-run of past motor industry demises. JLR is far too small to exist alone and has repeated product mix mistakes of BL. Trying to trail blaze with electric vehicles is also a mistake (IMO) as the cost is horrendous. They'd be better off letting others develop and prove the technology and then buy it in.