LONDON, July 9 (Reuters) - Lloyds Banking Group iscutting 500 jobs in Britain, mostly in its finance and retailoperations, to take cuts in the last three years to more than13,000.
The bank said on Wednesday the job cuts are part of 15,000announced three years ago.
Unite, one of the main trade unions for Lloyds' staff,accused the bank of "continuous salami slicing job losses" thatis adding to staff fears about losing their jobs.
Lloyds, which is 25 percent owned by the UK government, saidabout 175 of the cuts would come from temporary agency staff orby not filling vacant positions. About 24 staff would go fromrisk functions.
It said the latest cuts took the number of redundanciessince its 2011 strategic plan was announced to 13,555. (Reporting by Steve Slater, editing by David Evans)