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No Agreement At ACAS
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Date: 26th Aug 2010
The latest talks between LTU and the Bank at ACAS, on pensions and terms and conditions, have now broken down and no further talks are planned.
The proposed new contract of employment will not refer to actual hours worked or the patterns of working but will simply state the total number of hours worked. We believe the Bank wants to use that new contract of employment and the individual discussions with Line Managers to move
as many staff as possible to more flexible working within the Working Window of 8am – 8pm as quickly as possible.
In the past whenever working hours have been discussed staff have been forced, cajoled and blackmailed into accepting changes to their working hours. The fact is that if forced to choose many staff will find it impossible to change their working hours and many will simply decide to leave the Bank.
Mark Brown, LTU Assistant General Secretary, said:
"The Bank's guidelines make it clear that if Line Management can’t get staff to change their hours of work on a voluntary basis then it will simply serve notice on staff to change their hours of work. That is something that no Union could accept in all conscience"
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