Jaguar Land Rover i54 production shutdown starts
Jaguar Land Rover is to halt work at its Wolverhampton engine plant for a week starting from today.
Britain’s biggest car maker announced back in January it would pause production at its I54 factory between April 8 and 12, blaming “potential Brexit disruption”.
Car production plants at Castle Bromwich, Solihull and Halewood will also pause manufacturing over the same period.
The shutdown comes 10 days after the UK was due to leave the EU on March 29 and started as it was revealed the company's sales were down 5.8 per cent over the last financial year.
It was also announced in January that JLR plans to cut 4,500 jobs as part of £2.5 billion cost savings.
JLR employs 44,000 workers in the UK and management, marketing and administrative roles are expected to be hardest hit in the new wave of job losses.
The company launched a voluntary redundancy programme following its job cuts announcement.
Despite the cuts it will invest in manufacturing new electric drive units at Wolverhampton.
