Jaguar Land Rover ‘to cut 1,000 jobs’

Car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover is reportedly not renewing the contracts of 1,000 agency staff in Solihull.

The car giant is blaming Brexit and the fall in demand for diesel models, according to reports.

The company employs thousands of both full-time and agency workers at sites across the West Midlands including in Castle Bromwich, Wolverhampton, its head office in Coventry and Solihull.

The plant in Lode Lane manufacturers the Range Rover, Range Rover Sport, Land Rover Discovery and Jaguar F-Pace models.

Jaguar Land Rover has been making serious moves over the past few years to target the hybrid and electric markets and said last year that from 2020 all new Jaguar Land Rover vehicles would be electrified.

Earlier this year, JLR said it would temporarily reduce production at its plant in Halewood, Merseyside, in response to weakening demand due to Brexit and tax hikes on diesel cars.

* Full Statement from JLR:

As is standard business practice, Jaguar Land Rover regularly reviews its production schedules to ensure market demand is balanced globally.

On Monday we will be cascading our 18/19 production plans for the next fiscal year to our workforce.

In light of the continuing headwinds impacting the car industry, we are making some adjustments to our production schedules and the level of agency staff. We are however continuing to recruit large numbers of highly skilled engineers, graduates and apprentices as we are over-proportionally invest in new products and technologies. We also remain committed to our UK plants in which we have invested more than £4bn since 2010 to future proof manufacturing technologies to deliver new models.

We are not renewing TEMPORARY contracts of a number of agency staff at Solihull.

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