Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has announced that it is looking for 198 employees to take voluntary redundancy before the end of the year.The job cuts will take place across all three of JLR’s UK plants, which employ around 16,000 staff altogether, and will come mostly from hourly-paid contract staff rather than full-time salaried employees. Staff are being offered nine months pay as incentive to leave, plus standard pension if they’re eligible.Don Hume, director for JLR corporate and governmental affairs, told Autocar that the decision “is more to do with our ongoing drive for efficiency rather than the credit crunch.”JLR, now owned by Tata, has already taken action as a result of the economic slow down. Land Rover’s Solihull plant has gone to a four day week and Jaguar’s Halewood factory is due to stop production for a week at the end of October due to falling X-Type sales.
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Re: Job cuts at Jaguar Land Rover
Contract staff are classified very differently to full time salaried staff. They are generally self employed and work on a six or twelve month basis. Getting rid of them is normally fairly easy as it is done on a rolling basis when their contract comes up for renewal.
In this particular situation I would guess JLR want to terminate their contracts early, so whilst not strictly redundancies, they are trimming their work force. Strictly TATA are being good to their word.
Re: Job cuts at Jaguar Land Rover
Didn't TATA promise there would be no job cuts in the immediate future? I suppose they will get around this by saying 'voluntary' redundancies dont count. Seems like a small figure considering they have 16,000 employees. I suspect more 'resignations' to come...