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More firms go on short-time work
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AS THE RECESSION worsens, more manufacturers are laying off employees — some are resorting to redundancies while others are concentrating on short-time working weeks.
Crane Fruehauf is being hit hardest by the unprecedented fall in the trailer market. Of the 2738 employees in the group, 765 will be made redundant affecting most areas of the UKbased manufacturing facilities.
At the company's Oldham factory 140 out of a total workforce of 465 will be made redundant, while at Dereham, Norfolk, 200 out of the 900 workforce face redundancy. Nearly half (330) of the 640 employees at North VValsham, Norfolk will go — while more than half of the Basildon, Essex, workforce will be out of work .within the next 90 days. Out of the 132 employees at Basildon, 70 will be made redundant.
The news from vehicle manufacturers is almost as gloomy with ERF expecting to switch from the current threeday week to a two-day week in the "'very near future''.
Leyland Vehicles had, until now, been working normally, but 6000 of the 7500 workforce at the company's medium /light division plants in Scotland will be working one week on, one week off during August. Overtime at the heavy vehicle plant at Leyland has now ceased and, coincidentally, about 300 workers at the corn pany's Albion plant in Glasgow have just been made redundant as part of the planned reorganisation of the Scottish plants.
Vauxhall workers at Luton and Ellesmere Port started a five-day week again last week but Fodens and Seddon Atkinson are still on three day weeks. Dodge and Volvo are working normally although Volvo's Irvine factory is currently closed for the holiday break.
Engine manufacturers are also feeling the pinch although Rolls-Royce and Cummins are both working normally. Most of Perkins' workers have been on a four-day week for the past two months and the company expects to revert to a three-day week shortly, affecting only a minority of the 6,000 workforce. A four-day week is provisionally planned for about half of the staff over the next few months, however.
Gardner has worked a fourday week for the past two weeks and the situation is not expected to change before the company's annual shut-down period at the end of this month.
Employees of Eaton Components are also on short-time working in certain divisions.