{"id":760850,"date":"2026-09-05T13:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T13:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/760850\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T13:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T13:14:21","slug":"jaguar-land-rover-confirms-plans-for-voluntary-job-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/760850\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguar Land Rover confirms plans for voluntary job cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">JLR said over the past three years, it had strengthened its brands and had prepared for production of its next generation of vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In July, the company said it expected fewer than 300 people would leave the firm under cost savings plans announced at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The company has its global headquarters at Whitley, Coventry, and manufacturing sites in Solihull and Wolverhampton as well as Halewood on Merseyside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It employs about 30,000 people in its UK operations, with approximately 10,000 people employed at plants overseas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The cyber attack in September 2025 led to the shut down of all manufacturing at JLR for several weeks, meaning not a single vehicle rolled off its production lines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That led to a 27% drop in overall production at the company, which is one of the West Midlands&#8217; biggest employers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The overall cost of the cyber-attack and the subsequent loss of manufacturing was estimated to be \u00a31.9bn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In June, the firm announced it planned to cut about \u00a31.7bn in costs over the coming years to help towards its recovery from the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">JLR had indicated at the time that it would make the savings through cuts in areas such as materials, warranty and fixed costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JLR said over the past three years, it had strengthened its brands and had prepared for production of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-760850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}