HR in August is all about minimum temperatures, clothing, holidays, temp cover, interns and free lollipops. Oh, and ‘lazy girl’ jobs. Whatever they are.
Adam McCulloch

Adam McCulloch
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!
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A judge has ruled that breaking wind on a younger colleague at work amounts to age discrimination in a case...
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There were almost 25,000 claims for shared parental leave last year, a record number since the right was introduced in...
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Wage growth of permanent and part-time staff slowed in July and demand for workers steadied with the number of vacancies declining, new figures show.
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US computer giant Dell is to launch a fresh round of job cuts this week with up to about 12,500...
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The European Union's AI Act yesterday came into force – the first steps in establishing a regulatory and legal framework for the use of AI systems within Europe.
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The BBC is facing questions over why it continued to pay news presenter Huw Edwards his salary for five months after his arrest for possessing indecent images of children in November 2023.
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Workers at luxury London department store Harrods are contemplating strike action over their employer’s ‘discriminatory’ holiday policy.
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Our latest round-up of movers and shakers since the start of summer includes significant appointments at confectionary giant Mars, pizza multinational Domino’s and law firm Browne Jacobson
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For something that is primarily an athletics event, modern business has managed to complicate matters.
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As business secretary between 2010 and 2015, Cable revealed that officials did not consider Horizon issues to be serious enough to bring to his attention.
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Confidence in making hiring and investment decisions surged in the three months to June.
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The chain, which also operates Picturehouse cinemas, is shortly to publish details of a restructuring plan that will lead to the loss of about 25 of its 100 sites across the UK.
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Acas has urged employers to be flexible when allowing staff time off to watch the Olympic Games.
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Skills for Care’s Workforce Strategy for Adult Social Care in England warned that the vacancy rate was still three times higher than that of the wider economy.