UK Factories Increasingly Plan Lay-Offs, Survey Shows

People walk past the Rolls Royce Inchinan factory on June 11, 2020, in Inchinnan, Scotland. Jet engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce is expected to cut 20 percent of its workforce, including 700 jobs at the Inchinnan plant, following a sharp decline in business as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

LONDON—British factories are increasingly planning to lay off workers, a warning sign for the economy as it tries to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, an industry survey showed on July 3.

Some 46 percent of manufacturers expect to make redundancies over the next six months, up sharply from 25 percent in May, according to sectoral group Make UK, which is calling on the government to take more measures immediately to support jobs.