Around 250 jobs are under threat at the Bosch car-parts factory in Miskin, south Wales.

The announcement brings the total number of jobs at risk in firms across Wales to more than 750 in two days.

As well as the Bosch jobs, 517 posts at other firms around Wales are at risk, including 337 jobs at the Hoover factory in Merthyr Tydfil.

Bosch employs 1,200 people at the Miskin plant and blames a 30% decline in orders for the cutbacks.

In October, it said up to 300 temporary jobs could go in 2009, but at the time, the company said it...[read more]

  

Wed Nov 19 2008 22:10

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