Affected staff were told by bosses their jobs were ending last month
Hundreds of Jaguar Land Rover agency workers have been laid off. The car giant has confirmed around 700 workers at the JLR plant in Solihull have lost their jobs.
BirminghamLive has reported that while 420 agency staff had been saved and re-deployed to fixed term or permanent contracts - 700 have been let go.
Extra workers were drafted in to support production of Range Rover and Range Rover Sport models, both made at the local plant, during what was a 'busy period'.
This is not uncommon according to a JLR spokesman, but now this work has come to an end, the extra agency workers drafted in will now have to find new jobs.
A Jaguar Land Rover spokesperson said: “It is normal practice for us to operate with a larger number of temporary workers during busy periods, we hired 2,100 additional agency workers to support recent launches at Solihull.
"A number of those assignments are now coming to an end meanwhile we will be converting around 20% of our agency workers onto Fixed Term and Permanent JLR contracts from April 2023. Both these changes will mean we still have 1000 more people working in production at Solihull than before the Range Rover and Range Rover Sport launches."
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2023 2:32 am