Jul 20, 2023 | All Members
The Group’s Senior Executives talk a lot about ‘transparency’, ‘collaboration’, ‘inclusion’ and ‘feedback’ but when push comes to shove, they will always try and shoot the messenger if they don’t like the message. Following the publication of its latest proposals on...
Jul 18, 2023 | All Members
Tomorrow morning Managers will receive a lengthy guide on decompressing working hours and will be asked to take part in concerted attempts to pressurise staff to decompress their working hours. Key messages are going to be: Every 3 months managers are to press staff...
Jun 30, 2023 | All Members
Lloyds has admitted that some of the questions in its recent flexibility survey were rigged and it won’t be publishing those results. When announcing the results of the survey, Ms Sharon Doherty said: “We also heard how some of you felt that a number of the questions,...
Jun 27, 2023 | All Members
When Lloyds announced its new redundancy policy a few months ago it made much of the fact that it wanted staff to stay and build their careers with the bank, Sharon Doherty, Chief People and Places Officer, waxed lyrical about its new initiative saying: “…the great...
Jun 7, 2023 | All Members, Pay
With the stubbornly high inflation levels set to continue and the cost of living crisis getting worse, many members of staff are now realising that the headline pay increases announced at the end of last year were really hiding a massive pay squeeze. In its recent...
Jun 6, 2023 | All Members, Branch Closures
Lloyds has announced that it is closing a further 53 branches (21 Lloyds, 17 Bank of Scotland and 15 Halifax) between September 2023 and May 2024. The bank has made the usual argument about customers moving to digital channels but when you look at the branches that...