Jaguar Land Rover to shed 450 jobs
January 15, 2009 by George Skentzos
It seems despite improving sales, British luxury car maker Jaguar Land Rover is planning to cut up to 450 jobs from its global workforce of around 15,000 employees.
The company blames this decision on a severe fall in demand coupled with the current global economic climate and is planning to seek Government support in order to guarantee its viability.
According to Reuters, the UK government is “disappointed” with this decision, sparking further job losses on home soil under the new ownership of India’s Tata Motors.
“Overall, the global auto market is considerably down, particularly in markets like the United States and the UK, and it’s basically because customers cannot raise credit to buy new cars,” a Jaguar Land Rover spokesman said.
This figure accounts for about 15 per cent or 300 of its management workforce, with a further 150 salaried agency staff to all lose their jobs.
The company also reduced its workforce late last year by seeking some 500 voluntary redundancies and shedding around 850 agency support staff.
In addition to this, managers who avoid the job cuts will not receive bonuses in 2009 and scheduled pay increases have been delayed until October 1 this year at the earliest.
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this is really bad. everybody is experiencing this economic turmoil. feel so bad to all people affected with this downfall.
It’s unfortunate that this comes at a time when both brands are making the best cars they ever have.
Despite Jagaur’s rise in sales last year, LR has fallen by large amount as no one wants a gas guzzinling SUV anymore with high petrol price and financial crisis.
Alan, where has LR’s sales fallen? They increased in Australia in 2008 or maybe you mean in US/Europe along with most other car manufacturers? The decline in sales has nothing to do with the type of car and everything to do with prospective buyers not being able to get credit to buy them.