Jaguar Land Rover to cut hundreds of UK jobs

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has revealed plans to chopped 500 jobs arsenic it tries to prevention costs portion battling a crisp diminution successful sales.

The UK-based steadfast said the simplification successful absorption roles, which amounted to 1.5% of its workforce, would beryllium completed done a voluntary redundancy programme.

JLR has been struggling precocious disconnected the backmost of the US trade war.

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It temporarily paused exports to the US, its biggest azygous overseas market, successful April aft Donald Trump's hike to duties covering cars to 25%.

It was aboriginal trimmed to 10% nether the US-UK commercialized truce agreement, but that complaint lone covers the cars it makes successful the UK.

The presumption of the woody besides headdress full yearly car exports to the US astatine 100,000 models, with the higher complaint applying to immoderate vehicles implicit the threshold.

The tariff uncertainty, coupled with a planned wind-down of older Jaguar models, meant income were 15% down implicit the 3 months to June to conscionable implicit 94,000.

JLR confirmed its occupation chopped plans connected the time the UK's jobless complaint deed a four-year high.

It besides follows Sir Keir Starmer speaking to JLR staff and promising to support their jobs backmost successful April.

The institution had said, aft the US-UK truce successful May, that the woody would bash conscionable that.

A spokesperson said: "As portion of mean concern practice, we regularly connection eligible employees the accidental to permission JLR done constricted voluntary redundancy programmes."