Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
    • Advertise
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Wellbeing
    • Recruitment & retention
    • HR strategy
    • HR Tech
    • The HR profession
    • Global
    • All HR topics
  • Legal
    • Case law
    • Commentary
    • Flexible working
    • Legal timetable
    • Shared parental leave
    • Redundancy
    • Maternity & Paternity
    • TUPE
    • Disciplinary and grievances
    • Employer’s guides
  • AWARDS
    • Personnel Today Awards
    • The RAD Awards
    • OHW Awards
  • Jobs
    • Find a job
    • Jobs by email
    • Careers advice
    • Post a job
  • XpertHR
    • Learn more
    • Products
    • Pricing
    • Free trial
    • Subscribe
    • XpertHR USA
  • Webinars
  • OHW+

Personnel Today

Register
Log in
Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
    • Advertise
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Wellbeing
    • Recruitment & retention
    • HR strategy
    • HR Tech
    • The HR profession
    • Global
    • All HR topics
  • Legal
    • Case law
    • Commentary
    • Flexible working
    • Legal timetable
    • Shared parental leave
    • Redundancy
    • Maternity & Paternity
    • TUPE
    • Disciplinary and grievances
    • Employer’s guides
  • AWARDS
    • Personnel Today Awards
    • The RAD Awards
    • OHW Awards
  • Jobs
    • Find a job
    • Jobs by email
    • Careers advice
    • Post a job
  • XpertHR
    • Learn more
    • Products
    • Pricing
    • Free trial
    • Subscribe
    • XpertHR USA
  • Webinars
  • OHW+

BrexitLatest NewsJob creation and lossesLeave

No-deal Brexit: Mini factory staff may be forced to take unpaid leave

by Ashleigh Webber 11 Sep 2019
by Ashleigh Webber 11 Sep 2019 The launch of the Mini Electric at the Cowley plant earlier this year.
Image: Jacob King/PA Wire/PA Images
The launch of the Mini Electric at the Cowley plant earlier this year.
Image: Jacob King/PA Wire/PA Images

Workers at the Mini plant in Oxfordshire could be forced to take at least two weeks’ unpaid leave and have their shifts cut in the event of a no-deal Brexit, manufacturer BMW has warned.

The company plans to close the factory for at least a fortnight from 31 October if it has problems importing components for vehicles. The 4,500 staff would not be paid for the time off because their holiday allowance was used up in April when BMW shut down the Cowley plant for a month after the original Brexit deadline of 29 March.

No-deal Brexit

Business secretary: ‘no-deal Brexit will cost thousands of jobs’

Average wages could fall 10% in no-deal Brexit

Chief financial officer Nicholas Peter told the Financial Times at the Frankfurt motor show: “We are not capable of [having] a second holiday period in 2019 so this could have a financial impact on our colleagues working in Oxford.”

He said it would likely cut production at the factory in the event of a no-deal Brexit, which would affect jobs. However, he told the BBC that BMW that there were no plans to permanently close any UK factories.

It is likely that tariffs would apply if the UK was to leave the EU without a deal on 31 October, which Peter said would mean BMW would likely have to raise the prices of the products produced in the UK and shipped to other markets.

“The increase of price means an impact on the volume you sell, and would eventually lead to a reduction of produced cars in Oxford,” he added.

Toyota also plans to pause production at its Burnaston, Derbyshire, factory on 1 November in anticipation of disruption to deliveries of parts in the event of a no-deal Brexit. However, staff are expected to return to work the following Monday.

The chief executive of Vauxhall owner PSA, Carlos Tavares, also indicated that the firm would make “necessary decisions” about its UK plants has it had a responsibility to protect employees outside the UK. He has previously warned its plants at Ellesmere Port and Luton were under threat because of Brexit.

Ashleigh Webber
Ashleigh Webber

Ashleigh is editor at OHW+ and part of the Personnel Today editorial team. Prior to joining Personnel Today in 2018, she covered the road transport sector for Commercial Motor and Motor Transport.

previous post
Met Police to discuss retention of women at Employee Benefits Live
next post
Number of BAME directors ‘flatlines’

Leave a Comment Cancel Reply

Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

You may also like

Hiring activity in March 2022 began to stabilise

8 Apr 2022

Waning interest in roles once held by EU...

25 Feb 2022

Rees-Mogg calls for swathing civil service cuts

21 Feb 2022

EU Settlement Scheme application backlog adds to skills...

11 Feb 2022

Ursula von der Leyen to press for EU-wide...

13 Jan 2022

Care workers added to shortage occupation list for...

24 Dec 2021

Immigration tribunal delays increase by 33%

21 Dec 2021

City relocations due to Brexit fall over pandemic

20 Dec 2021

Home Office’s pre-settled status move could add to...

16 Dec 2021

Care workers recommended for shortage occupation list

15 Dec 2021
  • What it really means to be mentally fit PROMOTED | What is mental fitness...Read more
  • How music can help to ease anxiety at work PROMOTED | A lot has happened since March 2020, hasn’t it?...Read more
  • Why now is the time to plug the unhealthy gap PROMOTED | We’ve all heard the term ‘health is wealth’...Read more

Personnel Today Jobs
 

Search Jobs

PERSONNEL TODAY

About us
Contact us
Browse all HR topics
Email newsletters
Content feeds
Cookies policy
Privacy policy
Terms and conditions

JOBS

Personnel Today Jobs
Post a job
Why advertise with us?

EVENTS & PRODUCTS

The Personnel Today Awards
The RAD Awards
Employee Benefits
Forum for Expatriate Management
OHW+
Whatmedia

ADVERTISING & PR

Advertising opportunities
Features list 2022

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Linkedin


© 2011 - 2022 DVV Media International Ltd

Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
    • Advertise
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Wellbeing
    • Recruitment & retention
    • HR strategy
    • HR Tech
    • The HR profession
    • Global
    • All HR topics
  • Legal
    • Case law
    • Commentary
    • Flexible working
    • Legal timetable
    • Shared parental leave
    • Redundancy
    • Maternity & Paternity
    • TUPE
    • Disciplinary and grievances
    • Employer’s guides
  • AWARDS
    • Personnel Today Awards
    • The RAD Awards
    • OHW Awards
  • Jobs
    • Find a job
    • Jobs by email
    • Careers advice
    • Post a job
  • XpertHR
    • Learn more
    • Products
    • Pricing
    • Free trial
    • Subscribe
    • XpertHR USA
  • Webinars
  • OHW+