Hundreds of agency workers at Bentley Motors have been told their jobs are under threat – despite record sales for the car maker in 2022.
Stunned workers were handed a letter warning them that the company wants to lay off up to 87 Adecco agency staff at the Crewe factory.
Crewe-based Bentley Motors have announced record sales in 2022, selling 15,174 cars.
It’s a 4% increase on the previous record year (14,659) in 2021 and the first time Bentley has sold more than 15,000 cars in a year.
Crewe-based Bentley Motors has opened its new intake of 117 trainees in 2023.
Career opportunities across the company on Pyms Lane are available for industrial placements and graduates.
South Cheshire Chamber of Commerce has paid tribute to its long-standing Business Awards sponsors as the search for this year’s 25th anniversary winners gets underway.
The official entry process has opened with several of the area’s big businesses, such as Bentley Motors in Crewe, returning to support the awards.
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Construction of the North West Crewe Package (NWCP) started on 9th May 2022.
On completion of NWCP in November 2023 it promises to ease congestion and improve access to Leighton Hospital and bring opportunities housing developments and for local businesses to expand.
Four Nantwich friends have completed the gruelling “3 peaks challenge” in just 22 hours and 22 minutes in aid of a children’s cancer charity.
Callum Hood, Brandon Mighten, Matthew Moulton and Jordan Long teamed up to complete the challenge and raise funds for CLIC Sargent Cancer Care for Children.
Bentley Motors chiefs have vowed to crackdown on staff parking on local streets close to the Crewe site amid road closures from next week.
The company is to close sections of Sunnybank Road and Pyms Lane from November 16 as part of bigger plans to develop the campus.
Bentley Motors have teamed up with Cheshire East Council as the main partner of the Cheshire East Virtual Pride 2020.
The partnership with the Crewe-based luxury car-maker signifies a major step up for the profile of Pride events in Cheshire.
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Cheshire East Council’s recent Cabinet meeting was held just a couple of days after the devastating news that Crewe’s major employer, Bentley Motors, was looking to shed up to 1,000 jobs at its flagship Pyms Lane factory.
Bentley Motors today announced it is starting a 60-day consultation on compulsory redundancies from its South Cheshire plant.
The company said it was “some way short” of the 1,000 colleagues they were hoping to accept terms on its voluntary redundancy plan announced on June 5.
GMB Union bosses say the Bentley Motors announcement to shed 1,000 jobs from is South Cheshire plant is “another bitter blow to manufacturing in the region”.
The luxury car maker told its 4,200 staff on Friday that it needed to let go almost a quarter of the workforce as the impact of the pandemic on the car industry bites hard.
Bentley Motors said today an “urgent reduction in the workforce” was needed for the South Cheshire car maker to survive in the future.
It comes as one of the region’s biggest employers confirmed plans to lose up to 1,000 workers.
Bentley Motors in Crewe are planning to let up to 1,000 workers go from the South Cheshire plant, according to unconfirmed reports tonight.
ITV are reporting that the car plant’s 4,200 staff will be briefed tomorrow (June 5) on a “voluntary release program”.
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