Staff at Jaguar Land Rover’s Lode Lane plant face huge changes as the company begins the countdown to switching production of its Discovery model from Solihull to Slovakia. The production move means that hundreds of agency staff at Solihull will lose their jobs, while some permanent staff working on the Discovery model will be given the option of voluntary redundancy, reports Coventry Live. The changes are part of a programme to move Discovery production to the car maker’s recently-opened Slovakian factory in Nitra. Earlier this year, Jaguar Land Rover announced that approximately 1,000 agency staff at its plant in Solihull will not have their contracts renewed. The company said the adjustments to production schedules and the levels of agency staff were "in light of the continuing headwinds impacting the car industry". A spokesman for Jaguar Land Rover told CoventryLive the reduction in the number of agency workers was “the balance” of the planned reduction of 1,000 announced in the spring but that there would be several hundred additional agency jobs going due to slowing global sales.