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Bank Admits Survey Was Felt To Be Rigged
Lloyds has admitted that some of the questions in its recent flexibility survey were rigged and it won’t be publishing those results. When announcing the results of the survey, Ms Sharon Doherty said: “We also heard how some of you felt that a number of the questions,...
New Technology Centre In India
When Lloyds announced its new redundancy policy a few months ago it made much of the fact that it wanted staff to stay and build their careers with the bank, Sharon Doherty, Chief People and Places Officer, waxed lyrical about its new initiative saying: “…the great...
Letter To Charlie Nunn – Lloyds Banking Group – Removal of Fire Marshals
Pay Ranges Con Trick
With the stubbornly high inflation levels set to continue and the cost of living crisis getting worse, many members of staff are now realising that the headline pay increases announced at the end of last year were really hiding a massive pay squeeze. In its recent...
More Branch Closures
Lloyds has announced that it is closing a further 53 branches (21 Lloyds, 17 Bank of Scotland and 15 Halifax) between September 2023 and May 2024. The bank has made the usual argument about customers moving to digital channels but when you look at the branches that...
Letter To MPs Regarding The Future of Bank Branches
Hybrid Working and Compressed Hours
As I reported a fortnight ago, our member questionnaire was intended to help us get ahead of the game in the event that we are required to represent a very large number of grievances and, potentially, Employment Tribunal or County Court claims. The large response has...
No Risk Surveying – Lloyds Style
It seems that Lloyds just can’t stop dropping the ball. In the space of just a few weeks the people running Lloyds have destroyed staff morale, engagement and brand advocacy to an unprecedented extent. That takes some doing. And to compound that by issuing a survey...
Oxymoronic
Unite dramatically told their members last week that they were holding urgent talks with the Bank following Charlie Nunn’s announcements on hybrid working and compressed working hours. In its communication to members, Unite said it: “Indicated to LBG that we would be...
Unsafe Building?
As a direct result of our previous Newsletter highlighting that it took staff 20 minutes to evacuate the building at 125 London Wall following a fire alarm on the 12th January 2023, Lloyds carried out a controlled fire evacuation on 29th March 2023. The result was...
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