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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!

    • 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
    • Bullying and harassment
    • Employee relations

    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.

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

    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.

    • 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
    • Gender

    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.

    • Education
    • Latest News
    • 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.  

    • Industrial action / strikes
    • Latest News
    • Trade unions

    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
    • Industrial action / strikes
    • Latest News

    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.

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