COVID-19 Newsletters

That’s the feedback we’ve received from a member of staff on hearing the bank’s latest announcement. We understand that both Accord and Unite have agreed that all Lloyds branch staff will be required to stay behind until 4.30 pm to help out with customer calls. Only a...

Lloyds has obviously listened to the concerns of BTU and its members and is planning to reduce the level of support offered to customers from Phase 4 to Phase 3 of its Covid-19 Strategy Scale. It’s a step in the right direction but the bank needs to go further. In a...

Whilst we can now see the light at the end of the coronavirus tunnel with the roll out of three vaccines, it’s still going to be a difficult few months for us all. The issue of what’s going to happen to those staff who have been working from home since the early part...

The next few weeks are going to be the worst since the pandemic began according to Chris Whitty, the Government’s Chief Medical Officer. And Lloyds now needs to revisit the issue of essential banking quickly. Lloyds should be congratulated for following the union’s...

Lloyds should go back to the basic banking model and the measures introduced in the first lockdown with immediate effect. The Prime Minister announced last night that people in all of England must now stay at home except for a handful of permitted reasons. The new...

At the Government’s recent press conference, the UK’s top scientist, Sir Patrick Valance, warned that the new strain of coronavirus is now “everywhere” in the country and the likelihood is that more areas will be moved into Tier 4 in the next few weeks. The Welsh...

Lloyds has said that: “colleagues will work from one branch only, unless needed as ‘critical resource’, to open and run another branch”. The reality for many staff is quite different. We’re getting a large number of telephone calls from members who are being asked to...