Newsletters From BTU
Windfall Gains For ‘Two-Pensions Osorio’
Members will recall that Lloyds gave frontline managers an extra day off and a family takeaway for their efforts in managing staff during the early stages of the pandemic. Whilst the bank was being dragged kicking and screaming into making such a paltry award, Mr...
Union Wins Landmark High Court Action, Again.
We’ve won in the High Court again. In the second part of the most important pension case in 30 years, the High Court has ruled today that the Lloyds Banking Group pension schemes are legally responsible for equalising the guaranteed minimum pensions (GMPs) for those...
Moving Between Branches
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...
Letter To Rt Hon Mr. Alok Sharma MP: Lloyds Banking Group and TSB – Health Protection Regulations
Letter To Mr. Nikhil Rathi: Lloyds Banking Group and TSB – Health Protection Regulations
Is Lloyds Breaching Coronavirus Health Protection Regulations?
By refusing to change its retail service offering to customers, Lloyds Banking Group is breaching the Health Protections Regulations, which put the lockdown rules into law. The bank has so far refused to change its strategy scale to reflect the fact that we are now in...
1,000 Jobs Go On Eve Of Lockdown
The timing of yesterday’s announcement from Lloyds is quite simply cruel. And we don’t say that lightly. To announce 1,000 job cuts on the eve of the second national lockdown beggars belief. The fact the timing was agreed with the bank financed, in-house staff unions...
The Sound of Silence
The UK faces a “medical and moral” disaster unless tough action is taken to stop the spread of the coronavirus, the Prime Minister said yesterday. And no one, who saw the report from Fergus Walsh, BBC Medical Editor, at the Royal Liverpool Hospital can be in any doubt...
Landmark Legal Case Continues In The High Court
In a previous Newsletter, I said that the second part of the union’s landmark legal case on Guaranteed Minimum Pensions (GMPs) would begin in the High Court in May and would be heard by Mr Justice Morgan via Skype. Following that hearing, Mr Justice Morgan wrote to...
Bank Bows To Union Pressure On Test & Trace App
Following the publication of our Newsletter last week, Lloyds Banking Group has bowed to union pressure and told branch staff working in the Banking Hall that they can now use the Government’s Track and Trace app. Jo Harris, Managing Director of the Lloyds Community...
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