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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!

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    • Gender pay gap
    • Sex discrimination

    Women’s equality at work: UK slips down key index

    by Adam McCulloch 29 Feb 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 29 Feb 2024

    The UK’s high gender pay gap has seen it fall four places on a key index that gauges equality in earnings at work.

    • Latest News
    • Retail
    • Redundancy

    The Body Shop closes 75 more stores

    by Adam McCulloch 29 Feb 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 29 Feb 2024

    The Body Shop is to close 75 shops in the UK over the coming weeks and cut 489 jobs, according to FRP Advisory, the administrator that is managing its restructuring.

    • Latest News
    • Four-day week
    • Flexible working

    UK four-day week trial hailed as a success one year on

    by Adam McCulloch 22 Feb 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 22 Feb 2024

    Most of the organisations that took part in a 61-company, six-month trial in the UK of the four-day week, have...

    • Career paths
    • Careers in HR
    • Latest News

    Movers and shakers February 2024: new head of diversity at Lloyds Banking Group and more

    by Adam McCulloch 22 Feb 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 22 Feb 2024

    January and February saw several significant people moves involving the likes of Lloyds Banking Group, US food giant Mondelez and advertising firm Mother.

    • National living wage
    • Latest News
    • Pay & benefits

    Greggs among 500 listed in minimum wage underpayments

    by Adam McCulloch 21 Feb 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 21 Feb 2024

    The Department for Business and Trade yesterday published a list of 524 employers who have collectively left 172,000 workers a combined £16m out of pocket.

    • Latest News
    • Pay settlements

    Median pay awards fall as UK enters recession

    by Adam McCulloch 21 Feb 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 21 Feb 2024

    The decline in inflation, which stood at 10% in January last year compared with 4% this year, was seen as a key driver in the fall in pay awards.

    • Collective redundancy
    • Latest News
    • Retail

    Job losses as The Body Shop begins to close stores

    by Adam McCulloch 20 Feb 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 20 Feb 2024

    The stores that will close immediately include four in London, where rents and other overheads are highest.

    • National living wage
    • Latest News
    • Pay & benefits

    Rise in number of low paid jobs in UK

    by Adam McCulloch 20 Feb 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 20 Feb 2024

    The Office for National Statistics recorded 3.7 million UK jobs paid below the real Living Wage in April 2023, 200,000 more than a year earlier.

    • Zero hours
    • Latest News
    • Trade unions

    Workers stuck in zero-hours jobs ‘out of necessity, not choice’

    by Adam McCulloch 20 Feb 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 20 Feb 2024

    Two-thirds of zero-hours workers have been with their current ‘employer’ for more than a year and approaching half have been in their zero hours roles for two year, a study has revealed.

    • Latest News
    • Job creation and losses
    • Labour market

    Skills crisis grows in childcare as overall job postings bounce back

    by Adam McCulloch 16 Feb 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 16 Feb 2024

    There were more than 870,000 new job postings in January 2024, and 1.8 million active job postings in the UK – a 4.2% increase from December 2023.

    • Sexual harassment
    • Bullying and harassment
    • Financial services

    FCA demands sexual harassment data from City firms

    by Adam McCulloch 16 Feb 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 16 Feb 2024

    The Financial Conduct Authority has ordered more than 1,000 banks, insurance firms and brokerages to report how many sexual harassment,...

    • Latest News
    • Labour market
    • Flexible working

    Greater flexibility for over-50s will help UK swerve a ‘looming retirement crisis’

    by Adam McCulloch 16 Feb 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 16 Feb 2024

    The Flexible After Fifty report from a roundtable that includes the CIPD and the British Chamber of Commerce, calls for older people to be more active in the workforce, with flexibility the key.

    • Discipline
    • Latest News
    • Menopause

    Should menopausal employees be offered jelly babies?

    by Adam McCulloch 16 Feb 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 16 Feb 2024

    A gift pack for menopausal employees and some HR advice hooked on to Taylor Swift's boyfriend offers our more lighthearted highlights of the week.

    • Dispute resolution
    • Latest News
    • Industrial action / strikes

    Musicians vote to halt strike at English National Opera

    by Adam McCulloch 15 Feb 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 15 Feb 2024

    The musicians have now been offered seven months of guaranteed work, a minimum redundancy payment and improvements to their new contracts.

    • NHS
    • Latest News
    • Education - further and higher

    Call for emergency action to stem fall in nurse applications

    by Adam McCulloch 15 Feb 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 15 Feb 2024

    Sharp falls in student nurse applications has prompted the RCN to call for more financial support for young nurses.

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