Airbus sites in the 海角视频 will remain open after the company received guidance from 海角视频 Government following Boris Johnson's speech on the partial lockdown of the 海角视频.
Strict new curbs on life in the 海角视频 to tackle the spread of coronavirus were announced last night by the prime minister.
People may only leave home to exercise once a day, to travel to and from work where "absolutely necessary", to shop for essential items, and to fulfil any medical or care needs.
Shops selling non-essential goods have been told to shut and gatherings in public of more than two people who do not live together will be prohibited.
Airbus has been in contact with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy for clarification.
They have been told that the rules will not apply to sectors like construction and manufacturing where it is not possible to do the work from home.
While those Airbus staff in admin roles at Broughton, North Wales, and Filton, Bristol, have been sent home to work the teams that manufacture wings on site will keep coming in - although a source said the situation was "fluid".
Airbus has put in strict protocols to its sites to help prevent the spread of the virus within the workforce.
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Their sites in France and Spain were 'paused' for four days last week while these measures were rolled out.
Why is Airbus not closing its manufacturing sites entirely amidst the crisis?
Airbus said:
● We decided to pause production and assembly at our sites in France and Spain for four days, with the aim of immediately implementing the health and safety measures required to protect people working in our facilities.
● The same measures were also implemented in the 海角视频, Germany, the US and Canada without full interruption of production. This included evaluating and adapting all our ways of working to adhere to strict social-distancing and risk-mitigation measures and ensuring everyone who can work from home is doing so.
● We leveraged the lessons learned from our operations in China as our colleagues in Tianjin have been implementing measures that proved to be efficient.
● In order to weather the crisis, it is clear: we need to protect our people against the outbreak, and we also have to restore and maintain our operations at a certain level. We have two crises to face, not one: the health crisis, and the economic crisis. We need to find solutions, we need to move forward on both of them, simultaneously and now.
● We are continuously monitoring the situation and are allowing those that can work from home to work from home.
● As a major industrial leading company, we fulfil an important role in society as a driver of employment, skills, expertise, tax revenues and as a provider of critical services to our customers. It is our duty to fulfil that role.