850 Jobs to be Axed at Cowley Mini Plant
The UK car industry reports that the Mini will be the next car company to layoff temporary workers in Cowley, Oxfordshire. The firm’s German owner BMW is expected to announce 850 job losses out of a workforce of 4,500 at the company’s factory. This marks another car manufacturing company needing to adjust with the times and a number of people who stand to lose their jobs yet again.
And agency staff personnel, most of whom are on temporary contracts and are not eligible for redundancy payouts, are expected to bear the brunt of the cutbacks. There will also be cuts in production beginning today, when the factory stops producing cars for a week in response to a slump in orders.
Mini and the unions have been in discussion over a change to the current work pattern of three shifts a day, and the company is expected to announce an end to seven-day-a-week continuous production.
(Source) Mail Online
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