Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Wellbeing
    • Recruitment & retention
    • HR strategy
    • HR Tech
    • The HR profession
    • Global
    • All HR topics
  • Legal
    • Case law
    • Commentary
    • Flexible working
    • Legal timetable
    • Maternity & paternity
    • Shared parental leave
    • Redundancy
    • TUPE
    • Disciplinary and grievances
    • Employer’s guides
  • AWARDS
    • Personnel Today Awards
    • The RAD Awards
  • Jobs
    • Find a job
    • Jobs by email
    • Careers advice
    • Post a job
  • Brightmine
    • Learn more
    • Products
    • Free trial
    • Request a quote
  • Webinars
  • Advertise
  • OHW+

Personnel Today

Register
Log in
Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Wellbeing
    • Recruitment & retention
    • HR strategy
    • HR Tech
    • The HR profession
    • Global
    • All HR topics
  • Legal
    • Case law
    • Commentary
    • Flexible working
    • Legal timetable
    • Maternity & paternity
    • Shared parental leave
    • Redundancy
    • TUPE
    • Disciplinary and grievances
    • Employer’s guides
  • AWARDS
    • Personnel Today Awards
    • The RAD Awards
  • Jobs
    • Find a job
    • Jobs by email
    • Careers advice
    • Post a job
  • Brightmine
    • Learn more
    • Products
    • Free trial
    • Request a quote
  • Webinars
  • Advertise
  • OHW+

Author

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!

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Gender
    • Latest News

    British Airways’ male staff allowed to wear makeup

    by Adam McCulloch 11 Nov 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 11 Nov 2022

    Male pilots and cabin crew working for British Airways will be permitted to have piercings, wear ‘man buns’, and put on makeup for the first time.

    • Employee relations
    • Legal sector
    • Latest News

    Legal aid solicitors threaten strike action

    by Adam McCulloch 11 Nov 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 11 Nov 2022

    Law Society says the government's failure to grant a 15% rise in fees for criminal defence work as recommended by a government review is ‘baffling’.

    • Hybrid working
    • Offices
    • Latest News

    ‘Go to work, don’t go to work’ is back!

    by Adam McCulloch 11 Nov 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 11 Nov 2022

    Go to work – it's warmer there; don't go to work – your employer has turned off the heating. I know – buy a hot desk!

    • Latest News
    • Education
    • Industrial action / strikes

    70,000 university staff to strike this month

    by Adam McCulloch 8 Nov 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 8 Nov 2022

    More than 70,000 staff are set to go on strike at UK universities over pay and conditions over three days this month, the University and College Union has announced.

    • NHS
    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    Increase of 115% in skilled worker applications from south Asia

    by Adam McCulloch 8 Nov 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 8 Nov 2022

    New figures show the extent to which UK businesses are turning to talent in south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa to plug their skills gaps.

    • Bonuses
    • Latest News
    • Executive pay

    Record bonuses for FTSE 100 CEOs

    by Adam McCulloch 8 Nov 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 8 Nov 2022

    The average total pay for FTSE 100 CEOs rose to a record £3.9m in 2021-22 as record bonuses were paid out.

    • Reasonable adjustments
    • Disability discrimination
    • Disability

    TUC finds disability pay gap has widened

    by Adam McCulloch 7 Nov 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 7 Nov 2022

    The pay gap for disabled people has increased to the point that disabled people effectively work for free for the last 54 days of the year and stop being paid today (7 November).

    • Employee relations
    • Latest News
    • Industrial action / strikes

    RMT calls off strikes as talks set to get under way

    by Adam McCulloch 4 Nov 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 4 Nov 2022

    The RMT rail union suspends forthcoming strike action – talks to get under way with employers.

    • Apprenticeships
    • Latest News
    • Management training

    Don’t scrap the apprenticeship levy, warns management body

    by Adam McCulloch 4 Nov 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 4 Nov 2022

    It would be an ‘enormous error’ to ditch the apprenticeship levy, says the Chartered Management Institute, which claims it is helping to tackle the UK’s productivity gap.

    • USA
    • North America
    • Latest News

    Elon Musk may cut half of Twitter’s workforce

    by Adam McCulloch 4 Nov 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 4 Nov 2022

    Some 3,700 jobs – half the firm's workforce – are likely to be cut at Twitter, as new chief executive Elon Musk makes his mark on the social media company.

    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business
    • Job creation and losses

    Signs of economic downturn seen in job market figures

    by Adam McCulloch 4 Nov 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 4 Nov 2022

    New postings fell in the week of 17-23 October, with 154,000 new job advertisements posted – 3.4% lower than a month earlier.

    • Financial services
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Latest News

    Deloitte revamps UK leadership team

    by Adam McCulloch 4 Nov 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 4 Nov 2022

    Professional services giant Deloitte has replaced half of its 16-person UK executive team. In doing so it has reduced the number of women at senior level.

    • Environment
    • Manufacturing
    • Latest News

    Employees accept pay cut as Britishvolt battles for gigafactory’s future

    by Adam McCulloch 3 Nov 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 3 Nov 2022

    About 300 staff at troubled Britishvolt have agreed to accept a pay cut in November while the company attempts to secure funding to assure the future of its gigafactory in Northumberland.

    • Hybrid working
    • Latest News
    • HR practice

    Flush away your troubles with hybrid work

    by Adam McCulloch 28 Oct 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 28 Oct 2022

    Although the backlash against working at home from the likes of Jacob Rees-Mogg and Alan Sugar has receded, now researchers...

    • Latest News
    • HR strategy
    • Flexible working

    Flexible Working Bill to be debated today

    by Adam McCulloch 28 Oct 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 28 Oct 2022

    If passed, the Bill will give employees a day-one right to request flexible working.

Newer Posts
Older Posts

  • Empowering working parents and productivity during the summer holidays SPONSORED | Businesses play a...Read more
  • AI is here. Your workforce should be ready. SPONSORED | From content creation...Read more

Personnel Today Jobs
 

Search Jobs

PERSONNEL TODAY

About us
Contact us
Browse all HR topics
Email newsletters
Content feeds
Cookies policy
Privacy policy
Terms and conditions

JOBS

Personnel Today Jobs
Post a job
Why advertise with us?

EVENTS & PRODUCTS

The Personnel Today Awards
The RAD Awards
Employee Benefits
Forum for Expatriate Management
OHW+
Whatmedia

ADVERTISING & PR

Advertising opportunities
Features list 2025

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Linkedin


© 2011 - 2025 DVV Media International Ltd

Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Wellbeing
    • Recruitment & retention
    • HR strategy
    • HR Tech
    • The HR profession
    • Global
    • All HR topics
  • Legal
    • Case law
    • Commentary
    • Flexible working
    • Legal timetable
    • Maternity & paternity
    • Shared parental leave
    • Redundancy
    • TUPE
    • Disciplinary and grievances
    • Employer’s guides
  • AWARDS
    • Personnel Today Awards
    • The RAD Awards
  • Jobs
    • Find a job
    • Jobs by email
    • Careers advice
    • Post a job
  • Brightmine
    • Learn more
    • Products
    • Free trial
    • Request a quote
  • Webinars
  • Advertise
  • OHW+