Sep 27, 2024 | All Members
You know things must be bad when the supermarket giant Tesco arms its delivery drivers with DNA tests, or ‘spit kits’, to combat a shocking 50% increase in violent attacks on retail workers. If a customer becomes aggressive or violent and spits, the member of staff...
Sep 24, 2024 | All Members, Branch Closures
On almost the very day that Lloyds Banking Group and the other ‘Big Four’ banks were due to meet Tulip Siddiq, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, to discuss how they can create more banking hubs, Lloyds launches a pre-emptive strike by announcing a further 55 branch...
Sep 13, 2024 | All Members, Letters, MPs
Latest News 700 Branches? 24th September 2024 Letter To MPs – Offshoring IT Jobs Is Bad for Growth 13th September 2024 Caring Is Not Sharing 5th September 2024 Filling Your Boots? 23rd August 2024 Counting The Pennies 18th July 2024 What’s It Hiding? 28th June 2024...
Sep 5, 2024 | All Members
When Lloyds Banking Group starts asking questions about the caring responsibilities of its employees it’s a fair bet that something is about to happen. In a recent message on updating personal data, Lloyds said that it was asking staff questions about their...
Aug 23, 2024 | All Members, Executive Pay
We understand that the Board of Lloyds Banking Group is considering following the lead of Barclays Bank which recently became the first British bank to announce that it was scrapping the cap on executive bonuses. Barclays’ new bonus policy means that the top 1500...
Jul 18, 2024 | All Members
You know things are not going to plan when someone starts checking the taxi receipts. Lloyds is two years into a £4bn strategic plan to diversify income streams away from those, like mortgages, that are dependent on interest rates. It’s not quite going according to...