June 29th, 2018

Retained Organisation – CS&I and Wealth Solutions
We started consultations on these elements of the transformation on Monday with Gillian Nimmo and Katie Page. Thank you to those of you that have raised concerns either at our drop in sessions, members meeting or via email. We have been passing these on as part of the consultation process and will continue to do so as they come to us.

Wealth Solutions
Nicola Sartorius provided the group with an overview of the rationale for the changes in Wealth Solutions as well as explaining how the new teams will work. We understand why the changes are being made and can see the logic behind the restructure. We are pleased that there are more roles available in the new structure than individuals being placed at risk of redundancy and that those employees have opportunities to express interest in multiple positions within the new configuration.

One other element of interest is the introduction of technical roles at Grade 3 and 4. In the past, these have not been available and individuals who wish to progress their careers would have needed to take on line management responsibilities as part of a Grade 3 or 4. This should offer greater opportunities to individuals who might otherwise have sought opportunities outside of the Company for them.

Following a request from Unite, roles that are not filled by at-risk employees through the selection process will be advertised internally from Thursday 28 June prior to external advertisements being made on
Wednesday 4 July. Applications from internal colleagues will be accessed in the same way and following the same timeline as those of external candidates. We did ask for a full selection process to be run for internal candidates ahead of external publication but this was something Prudential couldn’t accommodate.

CS&I
Rose Little, Vinay Jha and Colin Adams provided clarity on the proposed changes within CS&I. In summary, a transformation is needed to create a better fit for the business to support the TUPE of roles to Diligenta. We are comfortable with the rationale provided, and as with Wealth Solutions, we are pleased to see that there will be more roles available in the new structure than are being placed at risk.

All of the new roles in the new CS&I structure have been advertised on the Taleo job board. Anyone who is at risk of redundancy should ensure they tick the appropriate box on their application to show that they are at risk of redundancy when applying, so that their application is prioritised.
Those who are at risk of redundancy who wish to preference redundancy should complete the expression of interest form and submit it to the mailbox by 29th June.

Those who are at risk and in a pool within Solution architecture must ensure they have completed the assessment form, even if they wish to express an interest in redundancy, and submit to the mailbox by 29th June (csi.transformation@prudential.co.uk).

If you have any questions on the process or where to download forms these can be sent to the same mailbox and will be answered as soon as possible.
TUPE and Diligenta

We have reviewed all the Terms and Conditions proposed by Diligenta at a high level. Following our assessment, we have requested a number of their people policies to review in depth prior to the next consultation meeting on 4 July.

Thank you for all your questions, concerns and suggestions – we have raised them with Prudential/Diligenta as appropriate and will continue raise any that come to us during the consultations.

We will be holding another drop-in session on Thursday 28th June from 9.00 – 15:00 in BG:02. Feel free to pop in at any point on this day to ask questions, raise concerns or make suggestions.

We have arranged another members meeting for Monday 2nd July at 12.30 in The Avenue, Reading.

If you are unable to attend the drop in sessions, members meetings or have any questions then please contact Unite@prudential.co.uk

Thanks

Claire Williams
Ellen Looby
Jan Ciepkiewicz

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