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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!

    • Early careers
    • Latest News
    • Recruitment & retention

    It’s August and ‘lazy girl’ job searches are on the rise. What’s the connection?

    by Adam McCulloch 9 Aug 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 9 Aug 2024

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

    • Age discrimination
    • Age
    • Bullying and harassment

    Breaking wind at younger colleague was ‘age discrimination’

    by Adam McCulloch 8 Aug 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 8 Aug 2024

    A judge has ruled that breaking wind on a younger colleague at work amounts to age discrimination in a case...

    • Enhanced pay
    • Shared parental leave
    • Maternity

    Uptake of shared parental leave reaches a new high

    by Adam McCulloch 8 Aug 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 8 Aug 2024

    There were almost 25,000 claims for shared parental leave last year, a record number since the right was introduced in...

    • Latest News
    • Inflation
    • Job creation and losses

    UK wage growth slowed in July, as vacancies rose

    by Adam McCulloch 8 Aug 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 8 Aug 2024

    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.

    • Collective redundancy
    • USA
    • Latest News

    Computer giant Dell to cut 12,500 roles

    by Adam McCulloch 8 Aug 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 8 Aug 2024

    US computer giant Dell is to launch a fresh round of job cuts this week with up to about 12,500...

    • General Data Protection Regulation
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Gamification

    AI Act comes into force in EU: how will it affect HR?

    by Adam McCulloch 2 Aug 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 2 Aug 2024

    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.

    • Criminal records
    • Discipline
    • Latest News

    HR legal opinion: why the BBC continued to pay Huw Edwards’ salary

    by Adam McCulloch 1 Aug 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 1 Aug 2024

    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.

    • Latest News
    • Industrial action / strikes
    • Retail

    Harrods could face strike over ‘discriminatory’ holiday guidelines

    by Adam McCulloch 26 Jul 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 26 Jul 2024

    Workers at luxury London department store Harrods are contemplating strike action over their employer’s ‘discriminatory’ holiday policy.

    • Careers in HR
    • Latest News
    • Movers and shakers

    Movers and shakers in HR: new appointments at Yodel, Mars and Domino’s

    by Adam McCulloch 26 Jul 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 26 Jul 2024

    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

    • Latest News
    • Productivity
    • Workplace culture

    The Olympics are here: but what’s the real game?

    by Adam McCulloch 26 Jul 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 26 Jul 2024

    For something that is primarily an athletics event, modern business has managed to complicate matters.

    • Civil Service
    • Legal sector
    • Latest News

    Vince Cable: Post Office managers were ‘thugs in suits’

    by Adam McCulloch 25 Jul 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 25 Jul 2024

    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.

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

    Hiring confidence at highest point for more than two years

    by Adam McCulloch 25 Jul 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 25 Jul 2024

    Confidence in making hiring and investment decisions surged in the three months to June.

    • Latest News
    • Retail
    • Job creation and losses

    Cineworld expected to cut hundreds of UK jobs

    by Adam McCulloch 25 Jul 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 25 Jul 2024

    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.

    • Hybrid working
    • Absence
    • Latest News

    Acas urges flexibility for employees during Olympics

    by Adam McCulloch 25 Jul 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 25 Jul 2024

    Acas has urged employers to be flexible when allowing staff time off to watch the Olympic Games.

    • NHS
    • Local authorities
    • Carers

    Care sector needs half a million extra workers by 2040

    by Adam McCulloch 18 Jul 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 18 Jul 2024

    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.

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