Car manufacturer Vauxhall has insisted jobs are not at risk despite an investigation by the European*Commission into an £8.5m government grant awarded to pay for staff training. The commission is probing whether the grant - given to Vauxhall's plant in Ellesmere Port near Liverpool - breaks European rules on public aid to provide an extra incentive for training. The commission believes the car maker would have carried out the training despite government funds. In June last year,*General Motors (GM), the owner of Vauxhall, cut 900 jobs at the plant following a decline in car*sales. The cuts raised fears about the long-term future of the Merseyside factory, but the government offered the cash to improve performance and provide a staff training programme for the next five years. The plant subsequently won a contract to manufacture the new Astra model. A spokesman for GM told Personnel Today: "Starting in 2010, GM plans to build 180,000 units of the next generation global...


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