Newsletters From BTU
Declaration Of Stupidity
Lloyds staff working at 125 London Wall were all invited to attend an online course on how to exit the building in the event of a fire last week. Members will be aware that in November, Lloyds issued a mass notification notice telling all staff at London Wall to work...
More Job Cuts
The year’s hardly begun and Lloyds Banking Group has announced that there will be a net reduction of 740 grade C+ roles in the Community Bank. Lloyds has trotted out the usual justifications but it’s clear that its combined branch network (Halifax, Lloyds and Bank of...
Letter To Harriet Baldwin MP – HBOS Reading – The Dobbs Review
Letter To Dame Linda Dobbs DBE – HBOS Reading – The Dobbs Review
The Other Scandal
The Post Office ‘Horizon’ scandal, depicted brilliantly in ‘Mr Bates v The Post Office’, shows what can happen when big organisations try to cover up their mistakes and blame customers/employees when the real culprits, invariably senior executives, are allowed to walk...
£700 Million Better Off
Lloyds Banking Group is £700 million better off after getting back the entire £1.2 billion it lent (plus interest) to the Barclays family to finance their ownership of the Telegraph Media Group. Not thinking it would get all the money back, Lloyds is thought to have...
Lowest Engagement Score Since 2014
As we approach the end of another year, staff in Lloyds Banking Group are more disengaged from the business than they have been since 2014. Anyone who has seen Group Chief Executive Charlie Nunn’s interview entitled ‘A lifetime in banking’ at the Faculty of Economics,...
Have A Merry Christmas!
In the run-up to Christmas, Lloyds Banking Group thought it would be a good idea to tell 2,800 members of staff working in platform teams that they are being included in yet another selection exercise which could result in them being made redundant and their jobs...
Night Of The Long Knives?
According to leaked reports in the newspapers at the weekend, Lloyds will announce that it’s ‘reviewing’ 2,500 middle management roles. The implication of such a ‘review’ is that Lloyds is going to want to change the focus of certain roles. Lloyds has been briefing...
Are The Bank’s Policies Leading To More Abusive Customers?
Recently the Co-op said that urgent action was required to stem a “crime epidemic”. It said that anti-social behaviour and violence in its stores had almost doubled to 300,000 incidents this year. Now, we are not saying that Lloyds and Halifax staff working in...
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