PARIS: Britain’s Vauxhall cars, which was this summer taken over by French automaker PSA, is planning to cut 400 jobs at one of its factories by the end of the year, a PSA spokesman said Friday. The voluntary redundancies planned for the Ellesmere Port plant in northwest England are in response to “challenging European market conditions and a declining passenger car market“, he told AFP. The takeover prompted concern about job losses in Britain, where Vauxhall directly employs about 5,000 people, most of them in two factories – in Ellesmere Port and in Luton, in the southeast of England. He added: “The company has every confidence in the capability and skills of the Ellesmere Port workforce to deliver the necessary improvements in financial performance. “PSA Group affirms that it is committed to the Astra plant at Ellesmere Port.”--AFP

Source: New Strait Times October 13, 2017 22:18 UTC