Jaguar Land Rover introduce three-day working week

Jaguar Land Rover has announced that around 2,000 staff will move to a three-day working week at its Castle Bromwich plant in the West Midlands - the Guardian reports.

JLR, owned by the Indian corporation Tata, said that it took the decision to reduce production as it tussled with difficult conditions in the automotive industry, caused by the rising uncertainty of Brexit and falling sales of diesel-powered cars.

A JLR spokesperson said that they are making temporary adjustments to their production schedules at Castle Bromwich “in light of the continuing headwinds impacting the car industry”.

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“We are, however, continuing to over proportionally invest in new products and technologies, and are committed to our UK plants in which we have invested more than £4bn since 2010 to future-proof manufacturing technologies to deliver new models.”