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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!

    • Business performance
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    • Economics, government & business

    Optimism over labour market despite slow demand for skills

    by Adam McCulloch 10 Jun 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 10 Jun 2024

    Permanent staff appointments continued to fall in May, according to the latest survey of UK recruitment consultants.

    • Latest News
    • Public sector
    • Leadership

    Government considered sacking Post Office boss in 2014

    by Adam McCulloch 7 Jun 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 7 Jun 2024

    The Post Office inquiry heard on Thursday that officials considered sacking Paula Vennells in 2014.

    • Latest News
    • Education
    • Education - school

    Teacher vacancies in UK increase by a fifth

    by Adam McCulloch 7 Jun 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 7 Jun 2024

    Teacher vacancies increased by 20% to 2,800 in November 2023 from 2,300 in November 2022, according to newly released government figures.

    • Offices
    • Latest News
    • Workplace culture

    It’s ringing – don’t panic! The rise of telephonophobia

    by Adam McCulloch 7 Jun 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 7 Jun 2024

    Generation Z has developed an aversion to telephoning but the fight back has begun!

    • Latest News
    • Immigration

    Immigration: legal challenge over minimum income threshold

    by Adam McCulloch 6 Jun 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 6 Jun 2024

    The government's decision to raise minimum income requirement could be challenged in the High Court.

    • Corporate governance
    • Latest News
    • HR strategy

    Hotlines fail to quell concerns over whistleblowing at global businesses

    by Adam McCulloch 6 Jun 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 6 Jun 2024

    Most whistleblowers who have used such channels at large international businesses and public bodies said they faced pressure not to do so.

    • Europe
    • Latest News
    • Sickness absence

    Take-up slow for Europe’s only state menstrual paid leave policy

    by Adam McCulloch 6 Jun 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 6 Jun 2024

    Spain is only country in Europe with a specific menstrual leave policy.

    • Fire and rehire
    • Employment law
    • Latest News

    How is Labour moulding its employment rights proposals?

    by Adam McCulloch 31 May 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 31 May 2024

    Labour has updated its New Deal for Working People green paper with a more detailed group of proposals under the Making Work Pay badge. So what's changed?

    • Hybrid working
    • Latest News
    • Flexible working

    Hybrid working and the advent of the ‘coffee badger’

    by Adam McCulloch 31 May 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 31 May 2024

    Buzzwords and HR go together like pancakes and Nutella. We bring you the latest crop from TikTok and the news you've been waiting for on the geographical spread of CEOs.

    • Hybrid working
    • Legal sector
    • Latest News

    Law firm includes office attendance in performance reviews

    by Adam McCulloch 31 May 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 31 May 2024

    Refusal to attend the office for at least three days a week will lead to partners at one City law firm with negative performance reviews.

    • Latest News
    • Dismissal
    • Employment tribunals

    Tribunal rules on asylum seeker escorts’ WhatsApp texts

    by Adam McCulloch 30 May 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 30 May 2024

    Derogatory and racist messages shared on workplace WhatsApp group. One worker was unfairly dismissed but another worker's claim failed.

    • Data protection
    • Latest News

    Data breach at BBC: 25,000 employees affected

    by Adam McCulloch 30 May 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 30 May 2024

    A data breach at the BBC may have seen identifying details, including NI numbers, of 25,000 staff exposed.

    • STEM
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Latest News

    Fears over women leaving engineering roles

    by Adam McCulloch 30 May 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 30 May 2024

    The proportion of women working in engineering and technology roles in the UK has fallen.

    • Latest News
    • Public sector

    Former Post Office chief executive names fives colleagues who ‘let her down’

    by Adam McCulloch 24 May 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 24 May 2024

    Paula Vennells has told the public inquiry into the scandal she was ‘let down’ by senior IT managers and the organisation’s legal counsels.

    • Brexit
    • Latest News
    • Employment tribunals

    Seasonal farm worker brings tribunal case over unpaid wages

    by Adam McCulloch 24 May 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 24 May 2024

    A Nepalese farm labourer is taking a case to employment tribunal that's thought to be the first of its kind in the UK.

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