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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!

    • Minimum service levels
    • Employment law
    • Industrial action / strikes

    House of Lords setback for Strikes Bill

    by Adam McCulloch 27 Apr 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 27 Apr 2023

    The House of Lords has voted to support an amendment to the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill. 

    • Artificial intelligence
    • Employment law
    • Latest News

    Unions, lawyers and think tanks warn about lack of AI safeguards

    by Adam McCulloch 18 Apr 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 18 Apr 2023

    Pressure is growing on ministers to set up safeguards to protect employees from the misuse of artificial technology in the workplace.

    • Industrial action / strikes
    • Latest News
    • Trade unions

    Hundreds of UK Amazon staff take strike action

    by Adam McCulloch 17 Apr 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 17 Apr 2023

    Hundreds of Amazon workers in Coventry are on day two of a three-day strike in a dispute over pay.

    • Civil Service
    • Bullying and harassment
    • Latest News

    Alok Sharma denies bullying allegations from civil servants

    by Adam McCulloch 17 Apr 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 17 Apr 2023

    Former business secretary and COP26 president Alok Sharma has dismissed allegations that he consistently bullied civil servants.

    • Collective redundancy
    • Latest News
    • HR practice

    Redundancy letters at BBC were ‘standard HR exercise’

    by Adam McCulloch 17 Apr 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 17 Apr 2023

    The letter, sent at the start of April, asked staff who “would like to consider potentially leaving the BBC under voluntary redundancy” to hold discussions with HR.

    • Latest News
    • Labour market
    • Global HR

    OECD reports record workforce participation rates

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

    The UK is among a small proportion of OECD countries that have still to achieve the same workforce participation rates as before the pandemic.

    • Latest News
    • 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
    • Latest News
    • 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
    • Data protection

    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. 

    • Discipline
    • Discipline and grievances
    • Latest News

    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.

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