Here We Go……Again!

The decision of Lloyds Banking Group to abandon its joint venture by taking full control of Schroders Personal Wealth (SPW) after just 6 years is humiliating. No amount of spin on the part of Mr Barua, CEO of Insurance, Pensions and Investments, can turn it into a...

No To Assaulting Bank Staff

Members will be aware that one of the issues we deal with daily is abusive customers. The standalone offence of assaulting a retail worker in England and Wales is being introduced as part of the Government’s Crime and Policing Bill. However, staff who work in bank and...

Action This Day

Hundreds of thousands of pounds in value points are still waiting to be collected by members of staff with a little over a month to go before they are lost forever. In a previous email to members we reported that Lloyds would be moving its Game Changers Marketplace to...

Dealing With The Performance Management Offensive

Realism – The Starting Point We all need to be realistic about what’s going on in Lloyds! As top management in companies tend to do, the people behind the offensive against staff have come up with what probably seems a bright idea – pinching someone else’s...

Freedom of Speech – It’s All Or Nothing

“Free speech”… “free speech”… “free speech”… the political debate on freedom of speech in both the UK and overseas is all over the news, politics and social media at the moment. Lloyds Bank’s decision to permit an obviously political set of statements in a recent...

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