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Ford announces UK job cuts (From Daily Echo)
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Ford announces UK job cuts
7:50am Wednesday 26th September 2012 in Business
By Matt Smith, Politics and business reporter
Ford announces UK job cuts
FORD last night announced it plans to cut “several hundred jobs” in Europe after falling sales.
But the company, which has a plant in Eastleigh which builds the world renowned Transit van, said it had not decided where and how many job it will axe.
The US car maker, which employs 12,000 people in the UK and also has plants in Halewood and Dagenham, said the details won’t be known for “a few months.”
It plans to seek voluntary redundancies and will reduce spending on agency workers.
Ford is conducting three job cutting programmes in Germany, the UK and the rest of Europe.
It said it wanted to adapt production to shrinking demand.
The second biggest car maker in the US is expected to lose more than $1billion in Europe this year.
Its car sales have plunged 12 per cent in Europe in the year to August, according to an industry group, and by 29 per cent in August.
Comments(10)
Over the Edge
says...
8:44am Wed 26 Sep 12
roofspace wrote:No strictly as easy as that, I believe if a temporary/agency worker has been employed by a company (Fords) continuously for over 6 months they have as many rights as a permanent employee of the company, just because they're employed by an agency it makes no difference.
If you are a Ford worker as opposed to agency staff your job will be safe as it is easy to get rid of agency workers with no come back.
loosehead
says...
10:00am Wed 26 Sep 12
Georgem
says...
10:24am Wed 26 Sep 12
Over the Edge wrote:Not the same rights. Some of the same rights. Such as minimum wage, a limit on hours required, paid holiday etc. What they don't get, is redundancy pay, or notice periods, or unfair dismissal claims.
roofspace wrote:No strictly as easy as that, I believe if a temporary/agency worker has been employed by a company (Fords) continuously for over 6 months they have as many rights as a permanent employee of the company, just because they're employed by an agency it makes no difference.
If you are a Ford worker as opposed to agency staff your job will be safe as it is easy to get rid of agency workers with no come back.
The qualifying period is 12 weeks continuous employment.
Workers can also opt out of these regulations if they want to, which of course agencies would love. It is illegal for an agency to require them to. It's also illegal for them to refuse to deal with people who won't opt out.
These rights don't grant temp workers the same rights as employees. Why would they? That would make temp workers pointless.
Shoong
says...
10:28am Wed 26 Sep 12
Georgem wrote:The AWR that came in from the EU certainly changed the game, you qualify for many of the same rights as permanent workers if you've been in the same job for over 6 months.
Over the Edge wrote:Not the same rights. Some of the same rights. Such as minimum wage, a limit on hours required, paid holiday etc. What they don't get, is redundancy pay, or notice periods, or unfair dismissal claims.
roofspace wrote:No strictly as easy as that, I believe if a temporary/agency worker has been employed by a company (Fords) continuously for over 6 months they have as many rights as a permanent employee of the company, just because they're employed by an agency it makes no difference.
If you are a Ford worker as opposed to agency staff your job will be safe as it is easy to get rid of agency workers with no come back.
The qualifying period is 12 weeks continuous employment.
Workers can also opt out of these regulations if they want to, which of course agencies would love. It is illegal for an agency to require them to. It's also illegal for them to refuse to deal with people who won't opt out.
These rights don't grant temp workers the same rights as employees. Why would they? That would make temp workers pointless.
I got 5 days extra holiday out of it anyway, happy days.
arthur dalyrimple
says...
11:21am Wed 26 Sep 12
Georgem
says...
11:31am Wed 26 Sep 12
Shoong wrote:Many. Not all. Some employee rights are simply not compatible with the concept of a temp worker.
Georgem wrote:The AWR that came in from the EU certainly changed the game, you qualify for many of the same rights as permanent workers if you've been in the same job for over 6 months.
Over the Edge wrote:Not the same rights. Some of the same rights. Such as minimum wage, a limit on hours required, paid holiday etc. What they don't get, is redundancy pay, or notice periods, or unfair dismissal claims.
roofspace wrote:No strictly as easy as that, I believe if a temporary/agency worker has been employed by a company (Fords) continuously for over 6 months they have as many rights as a permanent employee of the company, just because they're employed by an agency it makes no difference.
If you are a Ford worker as opposed to agency staff your job will be safe as it is easy to get rid of agency workers with no come back.
The qualifying period is 12 weeks continuous employment.
Workers can also opt out of these regulations if they want to, which of course agencies would love. It is illegal for an agency to require them to. It's also illegal for them to refuse to deal with people who won't opt out.
These rights don't grant temp workers the same rights as employees. Why would they? That would make temp workers pointless.
I got 5 days extra holiday out of it anyway, happy days.
loosehead
says...
3:29pm Wed 26 Sep 12
arthur dalyrimple wrote:So once again the Echo's got it wrong
ford is in swaythling southampton , the airport is in eastleigh , done to confuse the germans ?
Gainer T Gopher
says...
7:27pm Wed 26 Sep 12
ng/Eastleigh plant by striking!!!!!
GO UNION GO!!!
loosehead
says...
9:04pm Wed 26 Sep 12
Gainer T Gopher wrote:Exactly how will that safe jobs?
Time to show Ford that it should keep all the staff at the Southampton/Swaythli
ng/Eastleigh plant by striking!!!!!
GO UNION GO!!!
roofspace says...
8:08am Wed 26 Sep 12