Thousands of workers told to stay home this week as car manufacturer deals with digital systems outage
Production at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and dozens of its suppliers is to remain on hold for at least this week, with disruption from a crippling cyber-attack at the carmaker expected to last until October.
The UK’s biggest car manufacturer, owned by India’s Tata group, halted production at the sites after discovering hackers had infiltrated its systems a week ago.
Thousands of production workers at the UK’s biggest car manufacturing sites in Halewood on Merseyside, and Solihull and Wolverhampton in the West Midlands have already been told to stay away until Tuesday. They will continue to be paid as usual and “bank” their hours to be picked up later on.
JLR will update workers on Monday on plans for later in the week. It is thought likely that thousands will be kept on pause until at least Thursday and probably beyond at JLR’s own operations in the UK and in Slovakia, Brazil and India as well as at dozens of suppliers.
