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Adam McCulloch

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Adam McCulloch first worked for Personnel Today magazine in the early 1990s as a sub editor. He rejoined Personnel Today as a writer in 2017, covering all aspects of HR but with a special interest in diversity, social mobility and industrial relations. He has ventured beyond the HR realm to work as a freelance writer and production editor in sectors including travel (The Guardian), aviation (Flight International), agriculture (Farmers' Weekly), music (Jazzwise), theatre (The Stage) and social work (Community Care). He is also the author of KentWalksNearLondon. Adam first became interested in industrial relations after witnessing an exchange between Arthur Scargill and National Coal Board chairman Ian McGregor in 1984, while working as a temp in facilities at the NCB, carrying extra chairs into a conference room!

    • Hybrid working
    • Financial services
    • Latest News

    Finance sector bosses want greater return to office

    by Adam McCulloch 24 Oct 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 24 Oct 2024

    Most of the UK’s financial sector bosses say they would like workers to spend more time in the office over the next year.

    • Collective bargaining
    • Employee relations
    • Dispute resolution

    Consultation: a new framework for industrial relations

    by Adam McCulloch 22 Oct 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 22 Oct 2024

    The new industrial relations framework is based on four principles: collaboration, proportionality, accountability and balancing the interests of workers, employers and the public.

    • Employment law
    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    Consultation: Changes to statutory sick pay

    by Adam McCulloch 22 Oct 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 22 Oct 2024

    Businesses may face extra costs with the changes to SSP mooted by the government but these will be neutered by productivity increases and health and morale improvements, say campaigners.

    • Early careers
    • Latest News
    • Graduates

    UK internships decline in line with vacancies

    by Adam McCulloch 18 Oct 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 18 Oct 2024

    According to Adzuna, the number of advertised internships has fallen by 30% compared with 2022, with only 3,817 opportunities available this October.

    • Employment law
    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    Employment Rights Bill amendment could give whistleblowers extra protections

    by Adam McCulloch 18 Oct 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 18 Oct 2024

    The number of workers covered by whistleblowing law could be about to expand as Protect's campaign to reform the Public Interest Disclosure Act gains parliamentary support.

    • Bonuses
    • Financial services
    • Latest News

    Bankers’ bonuses to be further deregulated

    by Adam McCulloch 18 Oct 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 18 Oct 2024

    Bonuses safeguards set to be cut back as regulators look to boost London's financial sector competitiveness.

    • USA
    • North America
    • Latest News

    Meta dismisses workers over meal voucher misuse

    by Adam McCulloch 18 Oct 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 18 Oct 2024

    The firm, which owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, dismissed the employees, some of whom were on six-figure salaries, from its Los Angeles offices.

    • Latest News
    • Recruitment & retention
    • Selection interviews

    Were you ‘demure’ or Marge Simpson in your job interview?

    by Adam McCulloch 11 Oct 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 11 Oct 2024

    The word ‘demure’ has been hijacked. Can we have it back please?

    • Fire and rehire
    • Zero hours
    • Employment law

    Employment Rights Bill ‘will not make work pay’ as it stands: Unite

    by Adam McCulloch 10 Oct 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 10 Oct 2024

    Unite, one of the UK's largest trade unions, has said the government's Employment Rights Bill ‘stops short of making work pay.’

    • Employment law
    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    Business offers qualified support for Employment Rights Bill

    by Adam McCulloch 10 Oct 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 10 Oct 2024

    Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds has rejected early criticism of the Employment Rights Bill from some quarters of the business community. CBI offers support for reform, however.

    • Fire and rehire
    • Zero hours
    • Employment law

    ‘This Bill means business’: lawyers react to employment rights proposals

    by Adam McCulloch 10 Oct 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 10 Oct 2024

    Employment lawyers give their initial reactions to the Employment Rights Bill after its full publication.

    • Employment law
    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    Employment Rights Bill: Fair Work Agency will operate from late 2026

    by Adam McCulloch 10 Oct 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 10 Oct 2024

    From autumn 2026 officers at the new agency will have inspection powers and will be able to enforce new penalties for those who breach employee rights.

    • Discipline
    • Latest News
    • Discipline and grievances

    Post Office CPO was asked to ‘close down’ conduct probe

    by Adam McCulloch 10 Oct 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 10 Oct 2024

    Karen McEwan told the public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal that former chair Henry Staunton had asked her to ‘close down’ an investigation into the conduct of chief executive, Nick Read.

    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business
    • Job creation and losses

    September saw sharp decline in number of vacancies

    by Adam McCulloch 7 Oct 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 7 Oct 2024

    September saw a further fall in the number of permanent staff placements, new figures show, as businesses await the new UK government's first Budget.

    • Employee-shareholders
    • Employee relations
    • Employment law

    Boom in firms moving to employee ownership trust model

    by Adam McCulloch 7 Oct 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 7 Oct 2024

    As of the end of 2023, 542 businesses had transferred ownership to employees via EOTs, up from 428 the previous year

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