Category: Car Jobs

DVLA workers bracing themselves for bad news

Posted on 16th December 2011

Workers at the DVLA’s office in Solihull have been informed that their jobs may be lost as the company starts to centralise their business to its Swansea headquarters and close many of their regional offices.
In total ninety jobs may be lost at three offices in the West Midlands (Solihull, Worcester and Shrewsbury). The losses are part of over one-thousand jobs to be cut throughout the United Kingdom as the DVLA looks to make savings of £28 million per year. The DVLA will centralise their services […]

Windscreen firm are the latest to announce job losses

Posted on 20th June 2011

The owners of Autoglass, a windscreen replacement company, have announced that they will cut as many as 400 jobs as the soaring cost of fuel is leading to an increase in cautious driving. Bosses claim that demand for replacement windscreens is down by 11% in the last six months alone.
The firm’s owner Belron have told staff that the mild conditions since the snowy period ended, coupled with fuel prices has seen motorists driving much less and more safely than in previous years, causing the massive […]