Aerospace giant Airbus will furlough more than half of its workforce at Broughton as production is cut at the site.
The European planemaker has confirmed 3,200 workers will go on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme - where the 海角视频 Government pays 80% of the wages of furloughed staff.
This move is in addition to the 500 Broughton workers who were furloughed by contractor Guidant earlier this month.
The plant employed just over 6,000 workers prior to the coronavirus crisis.
The announcement does not impact the Filton site near Bristol.
The news comes after Airbus chief executive Guillaume Faury warned the company is "bleeding cash" due to the pandemic.
This month Business Live of the A320 from 60 to 40 while also reducing A350 rates to 6.
“We’re bleeding cash at an unprecedented speed, which may threaten the very existence of our company,” Mr Faury said in the memo to workers.
Most Read
"We must now act urgently to reduce our cash-out, restore our financial balance and, ultimately, to regain control of our destiny.”
The company is due to give first-quarter results in the coming days in a period overshadowed by the pandemic that has left airlines struggling to survive and virtually halted jet deliveries since mid-March.
Around 3,000 French workers were furloughed this month and today they revealed the impact on the Broughton workforce.
A spokesman said: "Airbus confirms it has agreed with its social partners to apply the Government’s Job Retention Scheme for approximately 3,200 production and production-support employees at its commercial aircraft site in Broughton."
Airbus has agreed to top-up the salaries of workers - depending on the wage of the worker with a tiered approach taken.
The furlough periods will be staggered. They will all start in the next three weeks and last for at least three weeks - with its understood there will be rotation of staff members.