Despite the recent increase in National Insurance contributions, data from Brightmine, indicates that a sharp drop in pay awards is unlikely in the near term.
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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Campaigners, HR experts and employment law specialists have been having their say on a crucial Supreme Court judgment in the UK. We gauge their views.
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The number of reported breaches relating to employees’ data is at the highest level since at least 2019 when 3,010 breaches were reported to the Information Commissioner's Office.
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There are signs of momentum in the economy that may push back against the effects of rising costs, the REC has found.
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Parliament is to be recalled to debate an emergency law to save British Steel’s plant in Scunthorpe from imminent closure.
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Chancellor Rachel Reeves has welcomed new figures indicating an unexpected rate of growth for the UK economy in February.
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A recent tribunal hearing has cast light on the experiences of people with ADHD.
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London Underground drivers have voted in favour of the 34-hour, four-day working week.
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This mid-spring edition of latest moves in HR features significant appointments at three prominent UK companies: Associated British Ports, Sodexo, and Stagecoach
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Cat Little, the Cabinet Office’s top civil servant, said she wanted the department to be ‘more strategic, specialist, and smaller’.
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An employment tribunal has ruled against a garage apprentice who said his ADHD caused him to be unfairly dismissed from...
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West Yorkshire Police have pushed back against claims based on evidence from a whistleblower that it discriminated against white British-born applicants.
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Closer alignment with the EU was becoming an urgent priority for many businesses, the IoD poll found.
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Sharon Graham writes to Angela Rayner: ‘The current escalation increasingly looks like a declaration of war on these workers’
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The UK’s construction firms cut jobs at the fastest rate for four years in March as the sector’s downturn in activity continued.