Tata-owned Jaguar Land Rover to cut 1,000 UK jobs

• Sarwar Alam
• 17 April, 2018

By: Sarwar Alam

Jaguar Land Rover, owned by India’s Tata Motors, has announced it will cut 1,000 jobs and reduce production at two units as the UK’s biggest car-maker blamed Brexit, slumping sales of diesel vehicles and regulatory issues for its woes. Jaguar sales have fallen 26 per cent and Land Rover dropped 20 per cent this year and the company said it will not be renewing the contracts of 1,000 temporary workers at two factories. Jaguar Land Rover employs about 40,000 workers in the UK and produce over 500,000 vehicles a year. A company spokesman confirmed that 1,000 agency staff at Solihull…

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