Jaguar Land Rover Lay off Job Cut: Jaguar Land Rover Fires employees

Just some hours back it was General Motors GM which went for a massive lay off, followed by Schaeffler Germany Lay off Job Cut and now it is the turn of Jaguar Land Rover to fire employees or go for Jaguar Land Rover Job Cut or Jaguar Land Rover Lay offs.

The Jaguar Land Rover is now owned by India's Tata Motors and this deal was completed only a few months back.

How many employees will be fired from Jaguar Land Rover Lay off?
As per the reports arouond 200 employees will be fired

Which plants in UK will see the Jaguar Land Rover Lay off
The Jaguar Land Rover Job Cuts will happen at the plants in Birmingham, Solihull and on Merseyside.

There are around 15000 Jaguar Land Rover employees in Britain alone. Though the company said it would seek to shed the staff through voluntary redundancies.

As per the news from Telegraph, The credit crisis has seen new car sales in the UK tumble by more than a fifth compared to this time last year, but Jaguar insisted that its job losses were unrelated to the current economic gloom.

Jaguar Land Rover has announced a range of measures in recent weeks in an effort to limit over-production, including four-day weeks and temporary closures of some plants.
Official figures released this week showed that the total number of unemployed people in the UK has risen to 1.79 million, the highest since March 1998. Some analysts have predicted that 2 million people could be out of work by Christmas, with the jobless total expected to pass 2.5 million next year.
The Office for National Statistic figures also showed that a total of 147,000 people were made redundant in the three months to August.
The Government has made available an extra £100 million for re-training workers, in anticipation that the likely imminent recession will see a jump in job losses.
Glass-maker Waterford Crystal announced that 280 staff at its plant in Waterford in the Republic of Ireland are to be made redundant

Let's hope that alternative jobs are available to the affected employees of Jaguar Land Rover Lay off.

Schaeffler Germany Lay off Job Cut: Schaeffler Fires employees

Just some hours back it was General Motors GM which went for a massive lay off and now it is the turn of Germany based Schaeffler to fire employees.

Yesterday Schaeffler (Official Site), which is the the second large company in the Germany automobile sector, decided to lay off temporary workers

The same reasons of industry slowdown, were cited by the Schaeffler Management. However, these developments have given sufficient pointers that the the labour market in Europe's biggest economy is having serious problems and may be on the verge of a decline.

As per the news reported, Car-parts maker Schaeffler said it felt "a marked slowdown in the deliveries to carmakers in recent months" and would therefore "significantly" reduce its temporary staff.

There are around 4,000 contract workers worldwide in Schaeffler. Apart from that, there are around 66,000 permanent employees world wide for Schaeffler. In a similar move, German truck and diesel engine group MAN said this week it would cut production and reduce its temporary workforce.

The slowdown at Schaeffler comes after the company took on €16.1bn ($21.6bn) in debt to finance a takeover of Continental.

Let's hope that alternative jobs are available to the affected employees of Schaeffler.

General Motors GM Lay off Job Cut: General Motors GM Fires 1200 employees

Its time now for General Motors GM to annouce General Motors GM Lay offs or General Motors GM Job Cuts. As per the news reported, General Motors Corp. will lay off around 1,600 hourly workers.

Which plant employees will be affected by General Motors GM Layoffs
The General Motors GM Lay offs will happen at assembly plants in Detroit, Pontiac and Wilmington, Del.,

What is the primary reason for General Motors GM Job Cuts, as mentioned by the company?
Market Conditions is the buzzword for all companies firing employees and GM is no exception to that. It is citing decreasing demand for trucks, large cars and luxury cars for the General Motors GM Job Cuts. GM spokeswoman Sherrie Childers Arb said the layoffs in Detroit and Pontiac are the result of planned line-speed reductions. The action at Wilmington, she said, is the result of plans to reduce production from two shifts to one.

How many employee will be laid off from General Motors GM, as per the plants?
The company will lay off 500 workers at its Detroit Hamtramck Assembly plant on December 23, 2008 due to reduced demand for the Buick Lucerne and Cadillac DTS.

GM Spokesman Tony Sapienza said the Detroit Hamtramck layoffs are effective January 12.

It will lay off 700 workers at GM’s Pontiac truck assembly, where it assembles the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups beginning February 1.

Then, there will be another 400 workers laid off at its Wilmington, Del. assembly plant beginning December 8. The Wilmington plant assembles the Saturn Sky, Pontiac Solstice and Opel GT roadsters.

Other developments for GM showing bad business prospects are that it plans to close its Janesville plant on December 23 — more than a year before originally scheduled — and new plans to close its Grand Rapids stamping plant by December of next year. Earlier this month, the company announced plans to accelerate the closure of its Moraine, Ohio, assembly plant by more than a year. That plant will also close on December 23.

Let's hope that alternative jobs are available to the affected employees of GM.