{"id":4063,"date":"2018-11-06T12:54:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T12:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/500-jobs-at-risk-amid-schaeffler-factory-closure-fears\/"},"modified":"2018-11-06T12:54:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T12:54:16","slug":"500-jobs-at-risk-amid-schaeffler-factory-closure-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/500-jobs-at-risk-amid-schaeffler-factory-closure-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"500 jobs at risk amid Schaeffler factory closure fears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Schaeffler in Llanelli\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/2E02\/production\/_104187711_mediaitem104187709.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Google<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">About 500 UK jobs are at risk after an automobile and industrial firm announced plans to close plants amid &#8220;uncertainty surrounding Brexit&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Schaeffler plants in Llanelli and Plymouth are earmarked for closure, with the firm proposing to relocate production to plants outside the UK.<\/p>\n<p>It has started a 45-day consultation on the plans.<\/p>\n<p>In Llanelli, 220 staff are employed in the factory and the Plymouth plant has 350 employees.<\/p>\n<p>Greig Littlefair, managing director of Schaeffler UK, said the firm wants &#8220;transparent and fair discussions with the employees affected&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Schaeffler, which employs more than 1,000 people at five facilities in the UK has chosen not to close its largest plant in Sheffield.<\/p>\n<p>It is anticipated that the UK reorganisation will take up to two years to implement.<\/p>\n<p>Juergen Ziegler, regional CEO Europe at Schaeffler, said: &#8220;Brexit is clearly not the single decisive factor behind our decision-making for the UK market, but the need to plan for various complex scenarios has brought forward the timing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, we remain committed to keeping certain activities in the UK, a country that will continue to be important to us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The closures are part of the firm&#8217;s &#8220;Agenda 4 plus One&#8221; reorganisation plan examining strategic and economic competitiveness and the long-term sustainability of facilities.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-46110825\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Google About 500 UK jobs are at risk after an automobile and industrial firm announced plans to close plants amid &#8220;uncertainty surrounding Brexit&#8221;. Schaeffler plants in Llanelli and Plymouth are earmarked for closure, with the firm proposing to relocate production to plants outside the UK. It has started a 45-day consultation on the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}