Exclusive: ‘Significant’ number of staff sacked from digger maker after drugs and alcohol tests

JCB, one of the UK’s biggest manufacturers, is investigating a spate of drugs use among workers based at its headquarters and has sacked a “significant” number of staff, the Guardian can reveal.

A message sent to UK employees last week by the digger-maker’s group human resources director, Max Jeffery, seen by the Guardian, said that it had been conducting a “series of investigations into substance misuse” over the past two months. That has resulted in a “small but significant number of people leaving JCB”.

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