Jaguar Land Rover announces 300 redundancies

Jaguar Land Rover is to make 300 job cuts at its Halewood Plant on Merseyside, and further production shutdowns are possible, it has been announced.

In a statement today the company said: “Jaguar is to cease production of its X-Type vehicle at the Halewood Plant on Merseyside at year end, with the loss of up to 300 further jobs by voluntary means. We also expect the need to take a further three weeks or more of shutdown of the Halewood plant over the balance of this year, starting in September, because of ongoing weakness in the market.”