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Welcome to a special edition of the digital My Accord magazine. This issue covers Accord’s 2024 Conference including:
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This week is Mental Health Awareness Week (13 - 19 May 2024) and this year’s theme is Movement: Moving more for our mental health. Read our blog post on how you can show your support and get involved, how to improve mental wellbeing at work and the support that's available.
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TSB has today announced plans that will impact approximately 250 roles. The role reductions will be across branch banking, fraud operations, central support roles, risk and finance. 36 branches will also be closed.
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It’s Deaf Awareness Week and we’re asking our wonderful Accord members to join us in supporting the RNID by signing up for communication tips and even, perhaps, BSL lessons.
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Accord’s Principal Executive Council (PEC) has elected Allison Howie and Donna McGeary as Vice Presidents for the PEC term which runs up until Conference 2026. Sheeba Hamid from Insurance & Wealth division in Halifax was re-elected unopposed as the PEC lead on equality, diversity & inclusion issues.
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Diligenta has published its pay offer for 2024 following negotiations with Accord and Unite. No agreement has been reached at this stage.
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The Q2 2024 edition of our 'Your Health & Safety matters' newsletter is out - aimed at keeping LBG members up to date with issues impacting their health, safety and wellbeing at work. This issue covers health & safety training, risk assessments, personal safety, car parks and more.
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The Community Bank plans to extend the proof of concept currently underway in some branches by increasing the number of colleagues taking customer calls. Colleagues involved in the expansion will be asked to work from home, with the current 18 branches in the experiment continuing to take calls in branch.
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Conference is the biggest and most important event in our calendar. It sets Accord’s agenda for the next two years. The motions that have been accepted by the Standing Orders Committee for debate at Conference have been published.
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