Full factory production at Bentley will resume on May 18; a limited number of staff will return to work on May 11Bentley Motors has decided to go back to work on May 11, the Monday after the first May bank holiday weekend. Originally due to resume work next week after an extended Easter shutdown, above, the Crewe-based luxury carmaker has said that a limited number of its 4,000-strong workforce will come in on May 11 before full factory production resumes from May 18. It said that it was putting in “robust safety measures” to prevent any spread of coronavirus. The automotive industry has gone into temporary hibernation. Britain’s biggest employer in the sector, Jaguar Land Rover, which has more than 30,000 people on its payroll and which operates factories at Solihull, Castle Bromwich and Wolverhampton in the West Midlands and Halewood on Merseyside, has extended its

Source: The Times April 16, 2020 22:57 UTC