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Adam McCulloch

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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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    • Equal pay
    • Gender pay gap

    HR must work to close the pay equity perception gap

    by Adam McCulloch 14 Apr 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 14 Apr 2023

    There are significant gaps in perceptions around pay equity between senior leaders within organisations and their employee bases.

    • Childcare
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    • Maternity and paternity

    Childcare costs prevent mothers from working

    by Adam McCulloch 14 Apr 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 14 Apr 2023

    Nearly two in five UK mothers are unable to return to work because of the cost of childcare.

    • Hybrid working
    • Financial services
    • Latest News

    JPMorgan Chase tells leaders to spend more time in the office

    by Adam McCulloch 13 Apr 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 13 Apr 2023

    Managing directors must work in the office full time, JPMorgan Chase has told staff; Gartner warns against strict return to office policies.

    • General Data Protection Regulation
    • HR software
    • Payroll software

    Payroll giant SD Worx hit by cyberattack

    by Adam McCulloch 13 Apr 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 13 Apr 2023

    Fears over data security causes SD Worx to suspend IT systems at UK and Ireland division.

    • Brexit
    • Employment law
    • Latest News

    EU Retained Law Bill may be delayed

    by Adam McCulloch 13 Apr 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 13 Apr 2023

    The EU Retained Law Bill, which, according to unions and some politicians, is a threat to employee rights in the UK, is said to have been stalled by the government.

    • Coronavirus
    • Latest News
    • Gig economy

    Covid: Care home staff worked extra hours for no extra pay

    by Adam McCulloch 13 Apr 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 13 Apr 2023

    Care home staff often worked extra hours without extra pay during the pandemic, new research has found.

    • Latest News
    • Workplace culture

    Succession is back, but where is HR?

    by Adam McCulloch 6 Apr 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 6 Apr 2023

    What does Succession, the hit HBO show, tell us about HR … or its absence?

    • Collective redundancy
    • Fire and rehire
    • Latest News

    P&O Ferries poised to make further redundancies

    by Adam McCulloch 6 Apr 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 6 Apr 2023

    P&O Ferries is now looking at cutting 60 managerial UK posts with a further 60 being shifted into new roles. 

    • Latest News
    • Discipline
    • Discipline and grievances

    Met Police commissioner: ‘It’s nonsensical I can’t sack officers’

    by Adam McCulloch 5 Apr 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 5 Apr 2023

    Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has said it is ‘nonsensical’ that he lacks the power to sack officers.

    • National living wage
    • Latest News
    • Minimum wage

    National minimum wage 2023: pay rises for 1.6 million workers

    by Adam McCulloch 31 Mar 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 31 Mar 2023

    From tomorrow (1 April 2023), all rates of the national minimum wage, including the national living wage, will increase.

    • Artificial intelligence
    • Automation
    • Latest News

    Tea drones and robots: What do futurists think of the office’s future?

    by Adam McCulloch 31 Mar 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 31 Mar 2023

    Tea drones, robots, fresh food growing on walls … futurists have their say on the future of the office.

    • Sexual harassment
    • Employee relations
    • Bullying and harassment

    Unions TSSA and GMB end merger talks

    by Adam McCulloch 31 Mar 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 31 Mar 2023

    Talks aimed at merging the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association (TSSA) with the GMB union have ended.

    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business
    • Department for Work and Pensions

    Ministers put off decision to increase pension age to 68

    by Adam McCulloch 30 Mar 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 30 Mar 2023

    A decision to increase the state pension age to 68 has been put back, the government has announced.

    • Career paths
    • Careers in HR
    • Latest News

    News UK appoints head of diversity: Movers and shakers, March 2023

    by Adam McCulloch 30 Mar 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 30 Mar 2023

    Senior HR job moves in spring 2023 including News UK and CrossCountry

    • Artificial intelligence
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Latest News

    Levi Strauss faces criticism over ‘diverse’ AI-generated models

    by Adam McCulloch 30 Mar 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 30 Mar 2023

    The decision by Levi Strauss to use models generated by artificial intelligence has been criticised by an HR consultancy.

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