2018-09-17 16:30
All staff at Jaguar Land Rover’s facility in Castle Bromwich will drop to a three-day working week due to ‘headwinds impacting the car industry,’ the company has confirmed.
The news follows comments made by JLR boss Ralf Speth last week that the event of a no deal Brexit could cost “tens of thousands” of jobs at the company.
The shift change will affect the whole plant, around 3,000 workers, where Jaguar assembles the XE, XF and XJ saloons and the F-Type sports car. The UK’s largest carmaker employs over 40,000 members of staff.
A Jaguar Land Rover spokesperson said: "As is standard business practice, Jaguar Land Rover regularly reviews its production schedules to ensure market demand is balanced globally. In light of the continuing headwinds impacting the car industry, we are making some temporary adjustments to our production schedules at Castle Bromwich.”
Demand for vehicles produced at Castle Bromwich has dropped significantly. Sales of the firm’s flagship XJ saloon, although coming to the end of its current lifecycle, have fallen by 45 per cent year to date. The XF and XE saloons are down 17 and 25 per cent respectively.
The shift change has also sparked comment from Jack Dromey, the Labour MP for Erdington. Taking to Twitter he said: “The historic Castle Bromwich Jaguar plant will now go onto a three-day week until Christmas - a combination of Brexit chaos and the mishandling by Ministers of the transition from diesel. Brexit now threatens the jewel in the crown of British manufacturing excellence.”
Earlier in the year JLR made a multi mission pound investment at its Solihull plant for the next generation Range Rover and Range Rover Sport models, which will move to a new electrified architecture. The investment will also free up addition capacity at the plant in the future.
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