How threatened is JLR?...sounds worrying

[KarlMac]

Island Hermit said:

Interesting read this morning chaps:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-26...

I feel like there’s more behind this. BritishVolt are getting major investment and I would have thought their capacity at the new facility in Blyth would have more than enough volume. I wonder if it’s not as price competitive as Eastern Europe.

[craigjm]

KarlMac said:

Island Hermit said:

Interesting read this morning chaps:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-26...

I feel like there’s more behind this. BritishVolt are getting major investment and I would have thought their capacity at the new facility in Blyth would have more than enough volume. I wonder if it’s not as price competitive as Eastern Europe.

The biggest thing behind it is probably nothing to worry about. The component are heavy so surely it makes sense to source them near the factories and the Nitra plant is a pretty big factory

[Adrian Clarke]

anonymous-user said:

I know someone who works for JLR. I won’t say as what to avoid identifying. There are a number of problems behind the scenes to name but a few: lack of staff, difficultly recruiting, expensive agency staff, people cutting corners, inexperienced team members, I could go on.. and that’s just one important department. I totally agree with the British Leyland comment.

This is a situation entirely of their own making. When I was still a contractor there they had a big round of VR at the end of 2019. Lots of experienced contractors left as well as it was known we would all be placed inside IR35. They’ve been throwing grads in the deep end with no support and generally can’t keep hold of staff because of the way they are treated. They didn’t want to offer permanent positions to experienced contractors because they didn’t want to pay the going rate. They offered me a permanent job when I was in a hospital bed with tubes coming out of my abdomen, then withdrew it because I didn’t say yes fast enough. Then when the pandemic kicked in they sacked almost all their agency staff.
They’ve had a massive brain drain and can’t recruit because again, they’re only offering positions inside IR35 and they don’t want to pay increased rates to make up for it.