UNIONS say Jaguar Land Rover’s decision to ask staff to delay their pay days is “no big deal” for workers.
JLR wants workers to accept a change in pay day from the middle to the end of the month to “smooth out cash flow”. £200 one-off payments are on offer to staff who agree to salary swaps.
Meanwhile, Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Motors, said the company’s purchase of JLR had been a “terrific decision”, despite the battering the company has since taken from the recession.
JLR managers have written to employees asking them to accept a delayed payment date for salaries from this month, with around 6,000 of the group’s 14,500-strong workforce in Halewood and the West Midlands being asked to switch.
The request is understood to have been sent by email to salaried staff earlier this week, and around 25% have already responded positively. Hourly-paid production workers, who are traditionally paid weekly, have not affected by the request.
Rather than the usual JLR pay day of the 15th of the month, the company wants to push payments to the end of the month to ease cash flow.
