Schools are facing ‘major challenges’ as parents pull their children out of class for holidays and long weekends.
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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New measures that will see senior civil servants receiving performance-related pay have been announced by the government.
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Labour says it will extend its sexual harassment proposals to cover interns and volunteers.
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Sir Jim Ratcliffe says productivity, unity and collaboration will increase if people work together at all times and that those who didn't want to work on the club's premises should leave.
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Trade union Unite has called TSB’s decision to axe 250 jobs and close 36 branches a ‘grave mistake’.
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Unite, GMB and Community unions break off talks with Tata over the Port Talbot site with voluntary redundancy terms a key obstacle.
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Women need to play a major role in the development of AI at organisations, the chief executive of IBM UK & Ireland has said.
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Talent acquisition teams increasingly feel disconnected from company strategy and are being forced only to advise on ways of reducing costs.
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We now have “micro-feminism” – a TikTok trend “empowering women and fighting gender inequality in tiny steps”.
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Goldman Sachs is set to remove its bonus cap for London-based staff, allowing some of its workers to once again pick up multimillion pound payouts.
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The UK’s second largest union, Unite, has issued a fresh warning to the Labour party not to dilute its proposed New Deal for Workers.
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Civil servants union the FDA has submitted an application for a judicial review over concerns staff could be in breach of international law.
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Teaching assistants, catering staff and other workers at 35 Birmingham schools are to strike because of delays in settling equal pay claims.
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Black and ethnic minority women are twice as likely to be on zero-hours contracts as white men, according to a new analysis.
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The GMB has lodged an employment tribunal claim over union membership on behalf of five workers at Amazon’s Coventry centre.