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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!

    • Manufacturing
    • Latest News
    • Job creation and losses

    4,000 jobs at risk as ministers decide not to rescue ethanol producers

    by Adam McCulloch 15 Aug 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 15 Aug 2025

    Vivergo faces closure as government decides not to support industry in wake of US trade deal.

    • Manufacturing
    • Latest News
    • Job creation and losses

    Job losses likely as Kingsmill announces deal to buy Hovis

    by Adam McCulloch 15 Aug 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 15 Aug 2025

    Jobs could be put at risk in the UK's bread-making sector as Kingsmill looks to create the UK's biggest bread brand by buying rival Hovis.

    • Change management
    • NHS
    • Financial services

    Personnel Today Awards 2025 shortlist: Change management

    by Adam McCulloch 14 Aug 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 14 Aug 2025

    The huge efforts made to shift cultures, revitalise particular functions and improve performance at each of our shortlisted change management entries impressed the judges

    • Bullying and harassment
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Latest News

    Worker awarded £3,000 for ‘Slave’ graffiti employer had not seen

    by Adam McCulloch 7 Aug 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 7 Aug 2025

    Seedy Fofana succeeded in his harassment-related-to-race claim, but his claim for direct race discrimination failed.

    • Scotland
    • Local authorities
    • Latest News

    Local authority staff absence in Scotland hits record level

    by Adam McCulloch 7 Aug 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 7 Aug 2025

    The Accounts Commission showed the absence rate among non-teacher staff rose to an average of 13.9 days in 2023-24 compared with 10.8 in 2010-11.

    • Latest News
    • Labour market
    • Freelance workers

    Are firms turning to self-employed contractors to avoid NI rise?

    by Adam McCulloch 7 Aug 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 7 Aug 2025

    There are 326,068 jobs for contract workers listed on Adzuna, the job search engine, a fifth more than at the beginning of April.

    • Right to work
    • Employment law
    • Latest News

    Right-to-work crackdown: businesses left without ‘statutory excuse’

    by Adam McCulloch 5 Aug 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 5 Aug 2025

    ‘Not all DVS providers make it clear that no statutory excuse is being established when they carry out right to work checks on foreign nationals.’

    • Apprenticeships
    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    Apprenticeship funding of degree level training ‘must be ringfenced’

    by Adam McCulloch 5 Aug 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 5 Aug 2025

    The government is being urged to ringfence its planned Growth and Skills Levy funding of higher and degree apprenticeships, to narrow the skills gap employers are experiencing.

    • National living wage
    • Economics, government & business
    • Pay & benefits

    Ministers vow to set living wage rate for all adults

    by Adam McCulloch 5 Aug 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 5 Aug 2025

    The government has renewed its pledge of a ‘genuine’ living wage and says the cost of living will be at the heart of decisions on setting its level.

    • USA
    • North America
    • Latest News

    USA: ‘Sacking of jobs data commissioner won’t create more jobs‘

    by Adam McCulloch 5 Aug 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 5 Aug 2025

    The move triggered alarm across Wall Street, with investors expressing concern that interference in official statistics could erode confidence in US markets.

    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business
    • Learning & development

    OBR official writes in support of immigration white paper aims

    by Adam McCulloch 5 Aug 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 5 Aug 2025

    An Office of Budget Responsibility official has published an essay in support of the government’s efforts to reduce net immigration and boost the homegrown workforce.

    • Latest News
    • Employment tribunals
    • Race discrimination

    Prison officer wins unfair dismissal and harassment case after IRA taunts

    by Adam McCulloch 1 Aug 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 1 Aug 2025

    Northern Ireland prison officer was subject to harassment by his boss in an English institution over family links to the IRA and his accent.

    • Latest News
    • Workplace culture

    Is the Gen Z stare just a dog days of summer story?

    by Adam McCulloch 1 Aug 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 1 Aug 2025

    With all that's wrong with the world at present the Personnel Today office agreed that Gen Z could be forgiven the odd vacant judgmental stare at their older colleagues.

    • Social mobility
    • Civil Service
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    Civil Service launches drive to attract interns from less well-off groups

    by Adam McCulloch 1 Aug 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 1 Aug 2025

    Pat McFadden, the chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and the minister responsible for civil service reform, said that Whitehall needed to reflect the broader community.

    • Artificial intelligence
    • Candidate experience
    • Latest News

    ‘By 2028, one in four candidate profiles will be fake’

    by Adam McCulloch 1 Aug 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 1 Aug 2025

    A third of job applicants were concerned about AI potentially failing their applications, and a quarter said they trusted employers less if they were using AI to evaluate their information.

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