Newsletters From BTU

Another Rotten 2-Year Pay Deal

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...

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Where is My Pension? – Kay’s Story

In the past we’ve highlighted several individual cases of members grappling with Willis Towers Watson (WTW) to get answers to straightforward questions or queries resolved quickly. In all cases the problems have been created by WTW in the first place. Emails and...

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It’s Your Pension Scheme

Many members regularly get early retirement pension quotations so they can keep track of their pension benefits. Willis Towers Watson (WTW), who are responsible for administering the pension schemes on behalf of the Trustee, changed the way those early retirement...

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Here We Go……Again!

The decision of Lloyds Banking Group to abandon its joint venture by taking full control of Schroders Personal Wealth (SPW) after just 6 years is humiliating. No amount of spin on the part of Mr Barua, CEO of Insurance, Pensions and Investments, can turn it into a...

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No To Assaulting Bank Staff

Members will be aware that one of the issues we deal with daily is abusive customers. The standalone offence of assaulting a retail worker in England and Wales is being introduced as part of the Government’s Crime and Policing Bill. However, staff who work in bank and...

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Action This Day

Hundreds of thousands of pounds in value points are still waiting to be collected by members of staff with a little over a month to go before they are lost forever. In a previous email to members we reported that Lloyds would be moving its Game Changers Marketplace to...

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Dealing With The Performance Management Offensive

Realism – The Starting Point We all need to be realistic about what’s going on in Lloyds! As top management in companies tend to do, the people behind the offensive against staff have come up with what probably seems a bright idea - pinching someone else’s discredited...

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Freedom of Speech – It’s All Or Nothing

“Free speech”… “free speech”… “free speech”… the political debate on freedom of speech in both the UK and overseas is all over the news, politics and social media at the moment. Lloyds Bank’s decision to permit an obviously political set of statements in a recent...

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It Wasn’t ‘Baldrick’!

Members in one area of Lloyds received an unsolicited email inviting them to participate in National Inclusion Week by attending a meeting to learn more about the LBG Inclusive Networks. However, instead of leaving it at that the author of the email unleashed the...

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Performance Management

The Background One of the realities of management is that there are very few new ideas. Top managers in organisations either bring with them what they learned (good and bad) in other organisations, such as offshoring and outsourcing, or re-hash other people’s ideas,...

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