JCB staff to get £1,000 Christmas bonus

JCB has delivered some festive cheer to thousands of employees with the company’s biggest Christmas bonus for more than a decade.

Around 7,200 employees at JCB’s 11 plants across Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Wrexham will receive an extra £1,000 in their pay packets.

The company said the bonus comes in a year in which JCB machine production reached a 73-year high and in which an additional 1,500 people were recruited.

JCB chairman Lord Bamford said: “JCB has had a very successful year and I am delighted that we are able to award a substantial Christmas bonus to thank our employees for their contribution. There are many parallels between JCB and the British economy at the moment: both are doing very well indeed and both have record levels of employment. What’s more, the signs remain extremely encouraging for 2019, with many reasons to remain positive for the future, both for our business, and the UK, which, after all, is the world’s fifth largest economy.

“JCB has had an exceptional year and we are gearing up for another strong 2019. The whole JCB team has every reason to be proud of what has been achieved and we are looking forward to building on our success next year.”

During 2018 JCB launched its new range of X-Series excavators and began work on a £50m factory at Uttoxeter, Staffordshire to build cabs for its machines.

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