BAE Systems to cut further 1,000 jobs

British defence giant BAE Systems has announced it is to cut another 1,000 jobs over the next two years - a week after it announced…

British defence giant BAE Systems has announced it is to cut another 1,000 jobs over the next two years - a week after it announced plans to lose 760.

The group said the jobs would be lost within its air systems division at Warton and Samlesbury in Lancashire.

Last Friday, BAE said its shipyard at Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria - a specialist in submarines - would suffer most of the 760 job cuts.

The company said the latest job cuts reflected lower workloads expected at some parts of the air-systems business in the next few years.

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It is expected that 500 jobs will be lost this year with around half of those being on-site sub-contractors. The remainder will go by next year.

Air Systems group managing director Nigel Whitehead said the majority of job losses would be achieved through voluntary redundancies, although there was still a chance of some compulsory cuts.

"We have been working very closely with our trade unions and they have been very supportive in trying to mitigate these losses to an absolute minimum," he said.