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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!

    • Collective redundancy
    • Financial services
    • Latest News

    Accenture to cut 19,000 jobs

    by Adam McCulloch 24 Mar 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 24 Mar 2023

    Consultancy giant plans sweeping job cuts as uncertainty in global markets afflicts clients.

    • Business performance
    • Department for Business and Trade (DBT)
    • Latest News

    MPs warn of brain drain without skills investment

    by Adam McCulloch 24 Mar 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 24 Mar 2023

    Investment in skills and businesses is vital if the UK is not to suffer a debilitating brain drain, say MPs.

    • Age discrimination
    • Social mobility
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    Is the workplace now a ‘wokeplace’?

    by Adam McCulloch 24 Mar 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 24 Mar 2023

    A new survey has highlighted a potential spanner in the works for efforts to retain older workers: the ‘woke’ workplace.

    • Latest News
    • Education
    • Education - school

    Teacher vacancies are double pre-Covid levels

    by Adam McCulloch 23 Mar 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 23 Mar 2023

    Report urges ministers to focus on initiatives to alleviate workloads and ways of mitigating the profession's lack of flexible work opportunities.

    • Age discrimination
    • Latest News
    • Recruitment & retention

    Value of older workers recognised by pledge

    by Adam McCulloch 23 Mar 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 23 Mar 2023

    More than 100 organisations and businesses have signed up to the Age-friendly Employer Pledge in its first 100 days.  

    • Latest News
    • Industrial action / strikes
    • Pay & benefits

    Union says Amazon pay rise is ‘insulting’

    by Adam McCulloch 23 Mar 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 23 Mar 2023

    Amazon workers in the UK are set for further industrial action after a salary increase for warehouse workers, of 50p an hour, was described as ‘insulting’.

    • Collective redundancy
    • Fire and rehire
    • Employment law

    The P&O Ferries sackings one year on

    by Adam McCulloch 17 Mar 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 17 Mar 2023

    Although the government has introduced the Seafarers Wages Bill, unions say ministers have failed to act over the unlawful sackings of P&O Ferries employees one year ago.

    • Civil Service
    • Latest News
    • Industrial action / strikes

    Passport Office workers announce five-week strike

    by Adam McCulloch 17 Mar 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 17 Mar 2023

    Passport Office workers will go on strike for five weeks, from 3 April to 5 May in a dispute over...

    • China
    • Asia
    • Data protection

    ‘TikTok should not be on work devices’

    by Adam McCulloch 17 Mar 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 17 Mar 2023

    The UK government’s decision to remove social media platform TikTok from all work devices has triggered calls for businesses to do the same.

    • Childcare
    • Latest News
    • Labour market

    Budget 2023: number of returnees will be ‘modest’

    by Adam McCulloch 16 Mar 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 16 Mar 2023

    Paul Johnson, director of the IFS, said the figure was ‘just a fraction of the number lost from the workforce in the past couple of years’.

    • Construction
    • Hospitality
    • Latest News

    Construction: immigration rule relaxation will have little effect

    by Adam McCulloch 16 Mar 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 16 Mar 2023

    More roles in the construction sector have been added to the shortage occupation list but hospitality has again lost out when it comes to recruiting overseas workers.

    • Minimum service levels
    • Employment law
    • Latest News

    EHRC submits criticism of Strikes Bill to parliament

    by Adam McCulloch 9 Mar 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 9 Mar 2023

    The Equality and Human Rights Commission has submitted strong criticisms of the Strikes Bill in a briefing for the House of Lords.

    • Artificial intelligence
    • Latest News
    • Recruitment & retention

    How useful is ChatGPT-style AI for HR?

    by Adam McCulloch 9 Mar 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 9 Mar 2023

    Reaping the benefits of ChatGPT-style artificial intelligence requires careful consideration of what tasks it is best suited to.

    • Right to work
    • Brexit
    • Latest News

    New immigration system has not boosted UK wages

    by Adam McCulloch 9 Mar 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 9 Mar 2023

    Wages have not risen to UK attract workers as a result of the move of a more controlled immigration system.

    • Gender
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Latest News

    International Women’s Day 2023 puts equity above equality

    by Adam McCulloch 7 Mar 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 7 Mar 2023

    The message of International Women’s Day 2023 is that businesses and individuals should ‘embrace equity’. What does this mean?

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