Jaguar Land Rover cuts 200 jobs with Nine month salary

London: Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover has announced plans to shed 200 jobs across its UK operations but claimed that the redundancies were not connected with the economic downturn or slump in car sales.

“It is a small redundancy programme and it affects 198 staff across manufacturing sites, including Halewood. It affects hourly paid employees and is part of the company’s ongoing drive to improve efficiency,” company spokesman Don Hume said.
The employees will receive a nine-month lump sum based on salary and any over 60 will be entitled to a full pension.

The redundancies are planned to take effect by the end of next month and the company said it was not intending to make any compulsory cuts.
The company has faced falling demand for the luxury 4x4s in established markets in Europe and the US. However, it has reported a sales boost of its award-winning XF model.

In September, the company announced it was easing output of Jaguars at its Castle Bromwich plant, while Land Rover has axed a night shift at its Lode Lane factory in Solihull and put some models on a four-day week production cycle.

Halewood, which employs 2,500 and builds the Jaguar X-type saloon and Land Rover Freelander, is to close for a week at the end of the month to ease over-capacity. Staff will continue to be paid.

The company added that workers on Jaguar’s XJ and XK production lines were likely to stay on a four-day week for the rest of 2008. The four-day week is likely to reduce XJ and XK production by a maximum of 400 models

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Jaguar Land Rover Lay off Job Cut: Jaguar Land Rover Fires employees

Just some hours back it was General Motors GM which went for a massive lay off, followed by Schaeffler Germany Lay off Job Cut and now it is the turn of Jaguar Land Rover to fire employees or go for Jaguar Land Rover Job Cut or Jaguar Land Rover Lay offs.

The Jaguar Land Rover is now owned by India's Tata Motors and this deal was completed only a few months back.

How many employees will be fired from Jaguar Land Rover Lay off?

As per the reports arouond 200 employees will be fired

Which plants in UK will see the Jaguar Land Rover Lay off ?

The Jaguar Land Rover Job Cuts will happen at the plants in Birmingham, Solihull and on Merseyside.

There are around 15000 Jaguar Land Rover employees in Britain alone. Though the company said it would seek to shed the staff through voluntary redundancies.

As per the news from Telegraph, The credit crisis has seen new car sales in the UK tumble by more than a fifth compared to this time last year, but Jaguar insisted that its job losses were unrelated to the current economic gloom.

Jaguar Land Rover has announced a range of measures in recent weeks in an effort to limit over-production, including four-day weeks and temporary closures of some plants.

Official figures released this week showed that the total number of unemployed people in the UK has risen to 1.79 million, the highest since March 1998. Some analysts have predicted that 2 million people could be out of work by Christmas, with the jobless total expected to pass 2.5 million next year.

The Office for National Statistic figures also showed that a total of 147,000 people were made redundant in the three months to August.

The Government has made available an extra £100 million for re-training workers, in anticipation that the likely imminent recession will see a jump in job losses.
Glass-maker Waterford Crystal announced that 280 staff at its plant in Waterford in the Republic of Ireland are to be made redundant

Let's hope that alternative jobs are available to the affected employees of Jaguar Land Rover Lay off.

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