Nov 19, 2025 | All Members, Pay
The issue of staff accounts is not going to go away, however much Lloyds and Accord would like it to. In a new, shocking, development branch managers were told in call last week that any questions relating to the trawling of staff accounts should be directed to Accord...
Nov 12, 2025 | All Members, Pay
Following our recent Newsletter, Lloyds Banking Group has admitted that it trawled through the personal accounts of all staff in Grades A – C to justify its pay increases for 2026 and 2027. That decision – which must have been sanctioned by either Mr. Charlie Nunn or...
Nov 11, 2025 | All Members, Pay
In my last Newsletter I said it couldn’t get any worse. I was wrong. In seeking to justify its shockingly low pay increases for 2026 and 2027 for staff in Grades A-C, Lloyds Banking Group admitted it accessed the personal accounts of 36,000 members of staff to...
Nov 5, 2025 | All Members, Pay
You simply couldn’t make this stuff up! Accord’s General Secretary went cap in hand to Lloyds asking for its help in getting his members to vote in its pay ballot. How low could Accord sink? Members will recall when Accord’s General Secretary took to the stand to...
Oct 27, 2025 | All Members, Pay
Given the economic uncertainty why would you agree to another 2-year pay deal for staff in grades A-C when the Bank is only proposing a one-year pay deal for staff in grades D-G? That’s what the Bank-approved staff unions have agreed, again. Equally, staff won’t be...
Jun 12, 2025 | All Members, Pay
The idea of rewarding staff based on their skills whilst encouraging them to develop their abilities and expertise sounds appealing in theory, but it’s bound to fail. Why? Quite simply: cost. Lloyds is not going to allow all staff to progress to the higher skill...