Hundreds of Wolverhampton JLR workers to be sent home as i54 production slowed down
The news was confirmed as Jaguar Land Rover announced 200 more jobs are going at its Solihull factory.
Jaguar Land Rover is sending hundreds of its Wolverhampton workers home for two weeks in the run-up to Christmas, the company has revealed.
JLR said 500 staff would be sent home each week on full pay as production is slowed down ‘temporarily’. At the same time 200 more jobs are going at the Solihull factory.
It comes in the wake of falling sales around the world, which has seen the company cut back on car production at its UK sites.
This has now filtered down to hit the engine production plant on the i54 site, which makes two-litre diesel and petrol engines for most of the company’s models.
Around 1,600 people work at the vast 2 million sq ft factory, but JLR says only 500 at any one time will be sent home on full pay over the two weeks between December 7 and December 21.
That implies that 500 may be sent home one week and another 500 the week after, rather than the same workers being off for the entire fortnight.
After that, all JLR’s UK sites will be on an annual fortnight long Christmas shutdown, returning to work around January 2.
