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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!

    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business
    • Inflation

    NI increase has not caused ‘knee-jerk reaction’ in pay awards

    by Adam McCulloch 23 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 23 Apr 2025

    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.

    • Case law
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Gender

    Supreme Court transgender ruling: ‘common sense’ or ‘incredibly worrying’?

    by Adam McCulloch 17 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 17 Apr 2025

    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.

    • General Data Protection Regulation
    • Employee engagement
    • Data protection

    Remote working may have triggered jump in employee data breaches

    by Adam McCulloch 17 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 17 Apr 2025

    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.

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

    Stabilising labour market offers ‘glimmers of hope’

    by Adam McCulloch 17 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 17 Apr 2025

    There are signs of momentum in the economy that may push back against the effects of rising costs, the REC has found.

    • Manufacturing
    • Economics, government & business
    • Public sector

    British Steel: MPs recalled to enable nationalisation

    by Adam McCulloch 11 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 11 Apr 2025

    Parliament is to be recalled to debate an emergency law to save British Steel’s plant in Scunthorpe from imminent closure.

    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business
    • Inflation

    Rosier growth figures don’t take into account Trump’s tariffs

    by Adam McCulloch 11 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 11 Apr 2025

    Chancellor Rachel Reeves has welcomed new figures indicating an unexpected rate of growth for the UK economy in February.

    • Benefits
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    • Latest News

    Are employers ready to recruit more people with ADHD?

    by Adam McCulloch 11 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 11 Apr 2025

    A recent tribunal hearing has cast light on the experiences of people with ADHD.

    • Latest News
    • Industrial action / strikes
    • Settlement agreements

    London Tube drivers vote for TfL’s four-day week plan

    by Adam McCulloch 11 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 11 Apr 2025

    London Underground drivers have voted in favour of the 34-hour, four-day working week.

    • Career paths
    • Careers in HR
    • Latest News

    Movers and shakers in HR: Stagecoach, Sodexo UK, Associated British Ports

    by Adam McCulloch 11 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 11 Apr 2025

    This mid-spring edition of latest moves in HR features significant appointments at three prominent UK companies: Associated British Ports, Sodexo, and Stagecoach

    • Civil Service
    • Latest News

    Cabinet Office to shed 2,100 civil service jobs

    by Adam McCulloch 10 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 10 Apr 2025

    Cat Little, the Cabinet Office’s top civil servant, said she wanted the department to be ‘more strategic, specialist, and smaller’.

    • Disability discrimination
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    • Discipline and grievances

    Apprentice with ADHD was fairly dismissed after lunch incident

    by Adam McCulloch 10 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 10 Apr 2025

    An employment tribunal has ruled against a garage apprentice who said his ADHD caused him to be unfairly dismissed from...

    • Police
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Latest News

    West Yorkshire Police denies positive discrimination accusations

    by Adam McCulloch 10 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 10 Apr 2025

    West Yorkshire Police have pushed back against claims based on evidence from a whistleblower that it discriminated against white British-born applicants.

    • USA
    • North America
    • Manufacturing

    Two-thirds of businesses expect profits to fall as tariffs bite

    by Adam McCulloch 4 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 4 Apr 2025

    Closer alignment with the EU was becoming an urgent priority for many businesses, the IoD poll found.

    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business
    • Industrial action / strikes

    Unite’s Sharon Graham toughens stance on Birmingham bin strike

    by Adam McCulloch 4 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 4 Apr 2025

    Sharon Graham writes to Angela Rayner: ‘The current escalation increasingly looks like a declaration of war on these workers’

    • Construction
    • Latest News
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    UK construction firms shed jobs amid downturn in activity

    by Adam McCulloch 4 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 4 Apr 2025

    The UK’s construction firms cut jobs at the fastest rate for four years in March as the sector’s downturn in activity continued.

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