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...
May 22, 2023 | All Members
As I reported a fortnight ago, our member questionnaire was intended to help us get ahead of the game in the event that we are required to represent a very large number of grievances and, potentially, Employment Tribunal or County Court claims. The large response has...
May 19, 2023 | All Members
It seems that Lloyds just can’t stop dropping the ball. In the space of just a few weeks the people running Lloyds have destroyed staff morale, engagement and brand advocacy to an unprecedented extent. That takes some doing. And to compound that by issuing a survey...
May 16, 2023 | All Members
Unite dramatically told their members last week that they were holding urgent talks with the Bank following Charlie Nunn’s announcements on hybrid working and compressed working hours. In its communication to members, Unite said it: “Indicated to LBG that we would be...
May 15, 2023 | All Members
As a direct result of our previous Newsletter highlighting that it took staff 20 minutes to evacuate the building at 125 London Wall following a fire alarm on the 12th January 2023, Lloyds carried out a controlled fire evacuation on 29th March 2023. The result was...
