80 jobs to go amid Lloyds shake-up
MORE than 80 jobs in the north west are to be lost as part of major restructuring programme at Lloyds Banking Group.
MORE than 80 jobs in the north west are to be lost as part of major restructuring programme at Lloyds Banking Group.
Telephone banking centres in Chester and Speke will close as part of plans to reduce headcount by 2,100 nationwide, in the bank’s commercial and back office functions.
The Unite union said it was ‘astonished’ at the new job losses, saying ‘real questions’ now had to be asked about how far the bank could be allowed to go in its ‘systematic’ slashing of staff.
Earlier this month the bank. formed by last year’s merger of Lloyds TSB and HBOS, said it was shutting all of its Cheltenham & Gloucester branch network with 1,600 jobs losses.
Lloyds said the current cuts followed ‘careful and detailed reviews’ of the group operations and wholesale divisions, which will bring together a number of functions across Lloyds TSB and HBOS.
Operational functions including payment and business services and banking are combining, while the wholesale division is bringing together its Lloyds TSB and Bank of Scotland businesses in England and Wales.
Around 150 jobs are being lost in Yorkshire at sites in Halifax and Leeds.
