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The UK's largest carmaker, JLR (formerly Jaguar Land Rover), has revealed plans to axe 300 jobs as part of a major corporate restructuring.
It comes just one month after the company, which is owned by Indian giant Tata, said it would cut around £1.7billion in costs over the coming years to help support its recovery from last year's financially devastating JLR cyber attack.
The job losses are in addition to the 500 roles cut last July.
The company, which employs about 30,000 people across the UK and roughly 10,000 overseas, did not disclose which departments will be affected.
JLR, like many premium European carmakers, is taking a bashing from a variety of headwinds impacting the automotive sector.
Increased competition from Chinese brands in its biggest markets, including a dramatic fall in demand in China itself, as well as US tariff measures introduced last year, have taken a toll on the premium SUV maker.
The transition to electric vehicles, which has seen Jaguar rebrand as an EV-only maker and plants retooled for production of forthcoming battery-electric JLR models such as the Range Rover Electric, Range Rover Sport Electric and new Range Rover GT, has also weighed heavily.
JLR - Britain's biggest carmaker - has revealed plans to axe 300 jobs as part of a major corporate restructuring
JLR makes most of its cars in factories in the UK, including Solihull in the West Midlands and Halewood in Merseyside, as well as in Slovakia.
In 2023, it introduced its new corporate identity, dividing its brands into four separate divisions: Range Rover, Defender, Discovery and Jaguar.
A company spokesman said: 'As we evolve our operating model to accelerate the growth of our House of Brands and deliver our next-generation vehicles, we are transforming our business to improve decision-making and performance.
'As part of our ongoing transformation initiatives, we have launched a limited redeployment and displacement programme.
'Impacted colleagues will be supported to find alternative roles wherever possible, alongside the option of voluntary early exit.'
In June, JLR announced plans to slash operating costs by around £1.7billion over the coming years.
It indicated it would secure the savings through cuts in areas such as materials, warranty and fixed costs.
Last year's cyber breach has seen the business suffer multi-hundred-million-pound corporate losses and a broader economic impact estimated at up to £1.9billion.
The incident, which occurred at the end of August 2025, forced a wholesale reset of company-wide servers, triggering a five-week shutdown of global production lines.
Dealers were unable to log in to systems to sell and register new cars, and the business endured months of reduced operations as its digital network was brought back online in a controlled and safe manner.
But JLR is not alone in announcing job cuts in recent weeks.
Last year's cyber breach has seen the business suffer multi-hundred-million-pound corporate losses and a broader economic impact estimated at up to £1.9billion
On Wednesday, BMW confirmed it will trim its German workforce by 8,000 staff by the end of 2027 as part of a voluntary redundancy programme.
Porsche, which is owned by Volkswagen, is cutting an extra 5,000 jobs by 2035, taking the total number of cuts to 8,900 roles.
Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz have also struck agreements to cut tens of thousands of workers.
Volkswagen is aiming to cut up to 100,000 jobs, shutter up to four German vehicle plants, and reduce its model line-up by half in its own massive cost-saving effort after seeing demand for its cars suffer at the hands of increased Chinese competition in recent years.