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“Highly challenging conditions” in the automotive sector will see DHL Supply Chain restructure linefeed and freight operations for Jaguar Land Rover .
As a result, Unite the Union has said that some 2,200 employees are at risk of redundancy. However DHL has said that it will “make every effort” to redeploy employees where possible.
A spokesperson for DHL Supply Chain told Logistics Manager: “In light of highly challenging trading conditions in the global automotive sector and the unprecedented impact of the coronavirus pandemic, we have made the difficult decision to restructure our linefeed and freight operations supporting the Jaguar Land Rover contract.
“This is in line with future volume forecasts and forms part of the optimisation and efficiency initiatives that have been driven by both organisations in recent months.
“We are now in consultation with our employees and their representatives and will make every effort to redeploy as many colleagues as possible to our other operations nationwide.
“We would like to thank our colleagues for their understanding at this extremely difficult time and stress that this proposal is based solely on the commercial challenges affecting the global automotive sector, and in no way reflects on the service levels delivered on the contract in recent years.” Read more
Source: LOGISTICS MANAGER
