Newsletters From BTU

You know things are not going to plan when someone starts checking the taxi receipts. Lloyds is two years into a £4bn strategic plan to diversify income streams away from those, like mortgages, that are dependent on interest rates. It’s not quite going according to...

In a previous Newsletter we wrote about Lloyds rolling out new spying software that would enable it to monitor more closely and intrusively what staff are doing and when they are doing it. In the past few weeks lots of members have received pop up messages telling...

If you are a disabled employee, an employment lawyer or a trade union official, or you manage disabled employees, you should take careful note of the recent Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) case of Baldwin v Cleves School and others. By way of explanation, the EAT...

Predictably we are now receiving more enquiries about whistleblowing or, in the jargon, making a protected disclosure. Why was this predictable? Because in the flip flop world of Lloyds HR, which has swung like an aircraft carrier making a tight turn, from a...

Dr Vipal Singh, the Director & Head of People and Places, Lloyds Technology Centre, Hyderabad was boasting on LinkedIn that it’s only taken 6 months to recruit 1,000 staff and it’s just the beginning! How many more highly skilled UK IT jobs are going to be...

That’s the title of a slide published by the Relationship Growth team last week. If Relationship Managers and Relationship Growth Coaches are not achieving the expectations for the roles, then they’ll be fast tracked out of the business. Selling is no longer a dirty...

Organisations need to operate both effectively (how well they do their job) and efficiently (controlling their costs) and managing staff individual performance is of course a key ingredient. So there is no argument about the need for performance management which is...