Cummins
Source: gov.uk (2025-11-10)

We, the undersigned, commit to honour the Armed Forces Covenant and support the Armed Forces Community. We recognise the value Serving Personnel, both Regular and Reservists, Veterans and military families contribute to our business and our country.

The Armed Forces Covenant

An enduring covenant between the people of the United Kingdom, Her Majesty’s Government and all those who serve or have served in the Armed Forces of the Crown and their families

The first duty of Government is the defence of the realm. Our Armed Forces fulfil that responsibility on behalf of the Government, sacrificing some civilian freedoms, facing danger and, sometimes, suffering serious injury or death as a result of their duty. Families also play a vital role in supporting the operational effectiveness of our Armed Forces. In return, the whole nation has a moral obligation to the members of the Naval Service, the Army and the Royal Air Force, together with their families. They deserve our respect and support, and fair treatment.

Those who serve in the Armed Forces, whether Regular or Reserve, those who have served in the past, and their families, should face no disadvantage compared to other citizens in the provision of public and commercial services. Special consideration is appropriate in some cases, especially for those who have given most such as the injured and the bereaved.

This obligation involves the whole of society: it includes voluntary and charitable bodies, private organisations, and the actions of individuals in supporting the Armed Forces. Recognising those who have performed military duty unites the country and demonstrates the value of their contribution. This has no greater expression than in upholding this Covenant.

Section 1: Principles of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant

1.1 We Cummins will endeavour in our business dealings to uphold the key principles of the Armed Forces Covenant, which are:
- no member of the Armed Forces Community should face disadvantage in the provision of public and commercial services compared to any other citizen;
- and in some circumstances that special treatment may be appropriate especially for the injured or bereaved.
Section 2: Demonstrating our commitment

2.1 Cummins recognises the value serving personnel, reservists, veterans and military families bring to our business. We will seek to uphold the principles of the Armed Forces Covenant, by pledging to the following:
- Armed Forces Friendly
- UK Service Veterans And Leavers
- UK Service Spouses And Partners
- Flexible Leave For Spouses
- UK Reservists
- UK Cadets
- Armed Forces Day
- Reserve Forces Day
- Armed Forces Charities
- UK Wounded, Injured And Sick
We also pledge the following:

2.1 We recognise the value serving personnel, reservists, veterans and military families bring to our business and to our country. We will seek to uphold the principles of the Armed Forces Covenant, by: Promoting the Armed Forces: We will publicise our Armed Forces covenant commitments through website and internal communication Veterans: We will work with the Career Transition Partnership (CTP) for recruitment of service leavers, with commitment to regularly attend CTP career fairs Through our Disability Inclusion efforts, we will support application of reasonable adjustments by leveraging our occupational health capability As appropriate, we will hold briefing days specifically for those leaving the Armed Forces to raise awareness of the opportunities for employment in our business We will establish and maintain a veterans transition experience program to enable armed forces leavers to gain experience of work with Cummins Limited We commit to utilise membership of the Forces Family job portal to ensure our vacant positions are visible to service leavers and families Service Spouses & Partners: We will endeavour to redeploy to other parts of the Cummins Limited business if they (spouse/partner) need to move to accompany their serving spouse/partner We will look sympathetically on requests for holidays before, during and after a partners overseas deployment, when the service member has leave to spend time with their family Reserves: We will endeavour to accommodate reservists training commitments wherever possible, providing 10 days per year paid leave to attend training events We will encourage and support any reservist within the Cummins Limited business to participate in Reserves Day We will endeavour to develop and implement an appropriate Military Leave policy incorporating reservist and cadet force volunteers Cadet Organisations: We will encourage and support employees to be cadet helpers or instructors with this work recognised through our Every Employee Every Community programme National Events: We will enable and conduct formal recognition and commemoration of U.K. Armed Forces Day and Armistace Day We will ensure that National Events are appropriately sign-posted to all of our employees Armed Forces Charities: We will enable employee involvement in veterans community related activity through our Veterans Employee Resource Group and Every Employee, Every Community programme Cummins Limited is committed to deliver the companies Veterans Inclusion strategy and we are fully committed to our vision: We want Cummins to be a place that empowers veterans to achieve their full potential and maximizes the unique value proposition inherent in this population. 2.2 We will publicise these commitments through our literature and/or on our website, setting out how we will seek to honour them and inviting feedback from the Service community and our customers on how we are doing.

2.2 We will publicise these commitments through our literature and/or on our website, setting out how we will seek to honour them and inviting feedback from the Service community and our customers on how we are doing.