Our top priority is the safety, health and wellbeing of our 15,000 people.  We are closely monitoring developments in the COVID-19 outbreak and are taking the appropriate steps to help maintain the ongoing health and safety of our employees. Johnson Matthey has:

• Enabled working from home arrangements for all roles that can do so;
• Ensured the highest standards of safety in all working practices;
• Enhanced our existing health and wellbeing support for all employees;
• Put self-isolation procedures in place for employees who are displaying symptoms or have been in contact with a confirmed infected individual;
• Decided that we will not take any COVID-19 support from the UK government for furloughed staff during April, May and June 2020 (Q1 of our 2020/21 financial year); and
• Pledged to make no member of staff redundant as a direct result of the impact of COVID-19 until the end of June 2020.

Our communities are at the heart of the fight against COVID-19 and we are committed to playing our part in the local areas in which we operate. Johnson Matthey has:

• Started manufacturing goggles and visors across a number of our sites which are being offered to community medical staff and care organisations;
• Donated PPE equipment to medical and care organisations; and 
• Pledged to match all donations made by our employees to fund local projects supporting communities though COVID-19. 

We know that science will help provide the solution in winning the fight against COVID-19 long term, as well as many other major health and climate related challenges that we will face over the years to come.  However, the impact of COVID-19 is likely to further increase the barriers to studying science for children and young people. To tackle this challenge, we are committing £1 million as a special fund to be donated to local and regional programmes in the areas in which we operate, to improve access to a quality science education to enable a cleaner and healthier world.

In recognition of the circumstances affecting many of JM’s employees, customers, suppliers and communities,  the Chair, Patrick Thomas, Chief Executive, Robert MacLeod, Chief Financial Officer, Anna Manz and our Non-Executive Directors have chosen to make a donation equal to 20% of their salaries and fees for at least the first quarter of 2020/21 to provide support to the company’s special fund for science education.