The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
200 - 300 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
30 October 2008
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Bentley, a manufacturer of high quality motor vehicles, has announced that it is to cut between 200 and 300 jobs at its site in Crewe in the north-west of England. The job losses have come about as the firm has decided to end a night shift that is operated at the site. Shift workers at the site will work a four day week, rather than the current three day week, when the changes are implemented. 3,800 are employed at the Crewe site, and the firm attributes the job losses to a recent decline in sales. The firm expects that the job losses will be achieved through a policy of voluntary redundancies. As of October 2008, there is no information on when the job losses will be implemented by. Bentley is owned by the German multi-national car manufacturer Volkswagen.
Sources
30 October 2008: The Times
30 October 2008: BBC News
Citation
Eurofound (2008), Bentley, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 67340, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67340.
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