Newsletters From BTU

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...

If Charlie Nunn is to achieve his growth objective of producing £1.5 billion of additional revenue by 2026 then the new relationship growth team is going to have to work. It’s now crystal clear to those who have taken up the new roles, that relationship growth is all...

We are not in the business of enjoying someone else's misfortune but now we’ve dealt with the ‘Inclusive Language’ nonsense, we can get back to the real bread and butter issues that matter to members and customers. At a recent roundtable session for analysts, Mr...

The Union’s recent Newsletter entitled ‘Diversity Washing’ was picked up by several national newspapers, radio stations and TV channels who questioned why Lloyds had rolled out such a dictionary. Many focused on the stupidity of Lloyds telling its own staff -...

The clear economic and organisational arguments for diversity, equality and inclusion in the workplace are being drowned out by half-baked schemes which are ineffective and create resentment, muddled thinking on the part of one-dimensional executives and ‘diversity...