Johnson Matthey reviews

Do not expect to grow or move around this company. The majority of people who work here are generally nice people and mean well, but will throw you under the bus to save their own skin at any cost. Safety is at the bottom of the list for this company's values. They may preach they are safe and care about safety, but don't be fooled. More tenured employees with 7-10 years of employment can get away with just about anything, so the real work and production falls onto the new underpaid employees. Management hires supervisors and managers who lack any sort of relevant experience needed to perform or troubleshoot in relative environments. Also to note, the union is a joke. Upper management has pulls and ties with the ability to divide the union and get anything they want from union committee. Management will take everything away they possibly can while the union sits back and watches. Anyone who speaks up will generally be ousted and left on the street looking for another job. This is not a real union shop and you have no job security whatsoever.

Having worked at JM over 10 years I've seen it progressively change for the worse from an employee perspective. The bottom line is sadly always, always money and investor opinion. Everything else comes in at second, even company values and treatment of employees. 2021/2022 has been a rocky time for JM and its future is uncertain from both a business and technology perspective. Clean Air has less than a decade to go, Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Technologies is immature and destined for a far away timeline. With Battery Materials gone its mid to long term outlook is in unclear. Couple this with staff being treated worse than rubbish during the current redundancy process across multiple sectors and a retiring CEO that just wants us sorted as quickly/cheaply as possible before year end makes it a bleak place to be. I've been nothing but shocked in its treatment of employees during redundancy and/or recent sale of it's businesses - the company values of "doing the right thing" and "protecting the people and planet" are just window dressing and not practiced when it comes to treatment of employees, even the most vulnerable ones. When you consider the amount of money (actually millions!) Robert MacLeod is receiving upon retirement it just makes you feel sick that they are squeezing ever penny out of staff being forced to leave the business. I sadly have no faith in the company anymore and can't see what the incoming CEO can do from a strategy perspective to give it a future that anyone can trust and believe in.