A once great company being stripped for parts by Eurofins - Forensic Laboratory Scientist Cellmark Forensic Services Employee Review

Meaningful work, fellow colleagues are good to work with.

The decline of Cellmark in the last few years has been staggering. How Eurofins have managed to essentially buy out the entirety of UK Forensics is worrying. They came into Cellmark as partners but have completely corporatised Cellmark, gutted staff with the expectation that the few staff that remain pick up the slack. Constant ‘money saving’ techniques employed by Eurofins usually come at a detriment to the staff working in the labs. As a former lab worker, you are treated as nothing but a disposable number with little to no support from middle management. Eurofins are actively deceiving their customers and I am convinced that they are devaluing and ruining Cellmark’s reputation in order to buy the company outright in some sort of loophole hole to avoid monopoly investigations. The disgusting, greedy, out of touch upper management care about nothing else apart from profit for the shareholders… in a forensic company. The threats of redundancy and the incompetence of management lead me to leave a job I used to love. On top of all this, the pay is abysmal and no meaningful benefits are included.

Enjoyable work sometimes Good people at lower levels

Since Eurofins takeover everything has gone down the drain, redundancies, worse hours and benefits, working five days instead of compressed four, stripping or completely eliminating departments then realising they’re important and getting people from other departments to do that work instead while still requiring high output from their original work Really poor communication, finding out there will be redundancies but not being told any more than that Management getting angry when people then decide to leave and go elsewhere Gaslighting and being told they actually weren’t threatened with redundancies after too many people have left in an attempt to get people to stay Requesting people take unpaid leave because they don’t have enough money to pay their staff Lack of respect Limiting training opportunities and giving opportunities to newer people then giving back feedback to people who have been trained in fewer things Feedback system is just bullying at times Micromanaging, tracking staff passes So many middle managers who don’t generate revenue so the people who do have to work harder and faster under more pressure but god forbid you make a mistake or get frustrated Changes to processes that make no sense and end up slowing down turn around time Awful pay for the responsibility and the pressures of the job ~25/26k after a 4 years in the job Having to jump through hoops to progress like giving tours and presentations just to make an extra 1k Withholding pay increases for people who have had an informal pip process within last 12 months when salary is already so low Senior management don’t care about staff or victims, just revenue. Big focus on shareholders