- The announcement came after parent
Tata Motors posted a consolidated net loss of $1.3 billion for the three months ended March 2020 - The company will begin cutting jobs at the end of July and last through the year.
- Earlier in April, $4 employees in the UK on furlough and cut senior management salaries by 10-30%.
This came after JLR parent company Tata Motors yesterday (June 15) clocked over $1.3 billion loss in loss as
“Against the backdrop of the
According to a $4, JLR has 32,000 employees working across the UK, and it would lose up to 1,100 agency staff, or contractors, “in the coming months.”
The jobs are expected to be cut from across the business’ UK manufacturing sites, a process that will begin at the end of July and last through the year.
Currently, in the Pune division, J$4 Jaguar XF, Jaguar F-PACE under the Jaguar portfolio and the Range Rover Evoque, Range Rover Velar and Discovery Sport under the Land Rover portfolio.
Early signs of cost-cutting
Earlier in April, $4 employees in the UK on furlough and also implemented 10-30% pay cut for one quarter in its senior management salaries.
The UK’s largest automaker earlier reported a 30.9% drop in sales due to the pandemic induced lockdown. The company said the cuts were part of its transformation programme to improve operational efficiencies.
The company, in its Q4 filing to the stock exchanges already warned about “actions” that will lead the group to become “sustainably cash positive from FY22.”
“Q1 FY21 is expected to be significantly weaker in both JLR and TML with the full impact of lockdowns being reflected in the results… Actions are underway to significantly deleverage the Tata Motors Group with JLR to become sustainably cash positive from FY22 while becoming future ready,”$4.
As per the recent quarterly statement, employee benefits is the biggest cost at the group level, at about 11%, after the cost of inputs needed to build an automobile, which make for over half of its total cost.
The company was already struggling due to the new BSVI norms, and the COVID-19 crisis only made it worse. Jaguar Land Rover, which accounts for a major portion of the car market in the UK and China, took a massive hit during the pandemic. JLR contributes $4
The carmaker is now in talks with the British government to secure a loan of more than £1billion (₹95 billion), $4. Its china segment also raised $705 million (₹53 billion) from Chinese lenders, its first debt financing in China.
The group has begun reopening factories in the UK and Europe earlier this month, although many are running at low capacity. Still, due to the sluggish demand, the company decided to keep one of Jaguar Land Rover’s key British plants in$4.
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