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BBC NEWS | Business | Lloyds announces 5,000 job cuts

Lloyds Banking Group is to cut 5,000 more jobs by the end of next year as it continues to reduce overlap following its merger with HBOS last year.

Some of these cuts are temporary staff, but Lloyds said 2,600 permanent jobs would be lost in the UK.

Most of the cuts will come in its operations unit, which includes IT, collections and payment services.

The union Unite accused the bank of "corporate arrogance" and short-termism following the announcement.

Lloyds has now announced more than 10,000 job cuts so far this year.



Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Nov 10th, 2009 at 04:07:07 PM EST
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Umm don't the govt own Lloyds ? So why isn't the govt stepping in to say you can't have bonuses and redundancies ? Ooops, sorry, I imagined for a moment I was living in a country where the govt ran the place for the benefit of the citizens.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Nov 10th, 2009 at 05:10:49 PM EST
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I imagined for a moment I was living in a country where the govt ran the place for the benefit of the citizens.

EXACTLY what hallucinogen are you mixing with your beer?  It seems to be working.

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Wed Nov 11th, 2009 at 08:59:22 AM EST
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