As many as 100 redundancies could be made at Jaguar Land Rover's Halewood plant.
A note sent to staff at the plant today announced that a voluntary redundancy programme would be welcoming applications from members of certain teams.
The message, sent by the plant's human resources department, said the VR programme is open to Halewood associates including Stamping colleagues but not including Halewood maintenance employees or associate apprentices.
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The note states that the plant can "accommodate a small number of voluntary redundancy releases - expected to be less than 100" adding that acceptance of applications for redundancy will be at the company's discretion.
The same letter confirmed that the company is also opening its early retirement scheme, known as the 58 Corridor programme. Employees who are in the Ford Derived Benefit Pensions Scheme and have reached the age of 58 plus between April 1 2023 and March 31 2024 may be able to retire in either July or December of this year or April next year.
A spokesperson for Jaguar Land Rover said: "As part of normal business practice we regularly offer eligible employees the opportunity to leave through an early retirement programme alongside a very small voluntary redundancy scheme.”
It has been a tricky few months for the car giant and the Halewood plant specifically. At the very end of last year the ECHO revealed that changes would be coming in to the shift patterns of staff at the Halewood plant. These changes were announced around the same time that dozens of agency workers at Halewood had their contracts ended early.
The company confirmed in a letter to workers in January that the plant would be moving from operating two daily shifts to just one, significantly reducing the amount shift workers can earn.
JLR has said it is being affected by a global shortage of semi-conductors, which is causing major issues across the automotive industry.
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