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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!

    • Corporate governance
    • Employee engagement
    • Ethics

    Employees are sceptical about corporate ‘purpose’

    by Adam McCulloch 27 Oct 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 27 Oct 2022

    Research finds 86% of employees know their organisation has a purpose statement, but only 58% are aware of what the statement includes.

    • Education
    • Department for Education
    • Latest News

    Rishi Sunak plans British baccalaureate and vocational colleges

    by Adam McCulloch 27 Oct 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 27 Oct 2022

    Proposals are likely to include the introduction of a British baccalaureate, offering broader academic and vocational qualifications at 18 and a slimmed-down set of exams at 16.

    • Social mobility
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Legal sector

    Law firms failing to improve social mobility

    by Adam McCulloch 26 Oct 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 26 Oct 2022

    The Social Mobility Foundation will publish a report showing that law firms are missing out on talent and profit by not taking graduates from non-professional family backgrounds.

    • Civil Service
    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    Civil service unions call on Rishi Sunak to scrap plan to cut 91,000 jobs

    by Adam McCulloch 25 Oct 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 25 Oct 2022

    ‘Rishi Sunak should reassure public servants they will not pay the price for recent incompetent governance and bring stability so that the UK is seen as a place to invest’

    • Latest News
    • Ethnicity
    • Race discrimination

    ’Not my business’: how workplace racism goes unchallenged

    by Adam McCulloch 25 Oct 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 25 Oct 2022

    Almost two thirds (61%) of black employees experienced racism in the workplace in 2021, according to a new report published today by business psychology consultancy Pearn Kandola.

    • Employee relations
    • Employee communications
    • Latest News

    ‘Quiet quitting? It’s nonsense!’

    by Adam McCulloch 21 Oct 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 21 Oct 2022

    Despite generating lots of articles, it's finally been acknowledged: the phrase 'quiet quitting' is a nonsense. Meanwhile, why are government ministers adopting business job titles?

    • Sexual harassment
    • Bullying and harassment
    • Employment law

    Sexual harassment protections closer to being enshrined in law

    by Adam McCulloch 21 Oct 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 21 Oct 2022

    The Worker Protection Bill, which if passed would make employers liable for third-party harassment, has passed through the second reading stage in the House of Commons.

    • Compassionate leave
    • Carers
    • Latest News

    Carer’s Leave Bill gains support among MPs

    by Adam McCulloch 21 Oct 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 21 Oct 2022

    Important Bill for retaining staff and enabling employees to care for loved ones passing second reading in the House of Commons.

    • Bullying and harassment
    • Latest News
    • Employment tribunals

    Royal Mail whistleblower awarded over £100,000

    by Adam McCulloch 21 Oct 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 21 Oct 2022

    Kam Jhuti, heard the tribunal, had been intimidated and harassed by her boss after shadowing a colleague and reporting that some colleagues were ‘in effect defrauding the company’.

    • Carers
    • Latest News
    • Job creation and losses

    Risk of collapse of adult care sector, warns Care England

    by Adam McCulloch 21 Oct 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 21 Oct 2022

    Workplace pressures are severely undermining the capacity of adult social care in England to provide services and may lead to the sector's collapse.

    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business
    • Public sector

    Liz Truss resigns as prime minister

    by Adam McCulloch 20 Oct 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 20 Oct 2022

    Liz Truss's resignation has put a number of leading Conservative ministers, past and present, in the frame but can any of them restore stability for business?

    • Latest News
    • Inflation
    • Pay & benefits

    Inflation to trigger pay rises for 91% of employees

    by Adam McCulloch 20 Oct 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 20 Oct 2022

    Median pay rises are set to reach 5% in the 12 months to the end of August 2023, a level not seen since 1992, a report from XpertHR has forecast.

    • Dispute resolution
    • Latest News
    • Industrial action / strikes

    Further rail strikes set for early November

    by Adam McCulloch 20 Oct 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 20 Oct 2022

    Further rail strikes over pay and conditions will take place on 3, 5, and 7 November, the RMT union has...

    • Brexit
    • Right to work
    • Europe

    Ministers face legal action over EU citizens’ pre-settled status

    by Adam McCulloch 19 Oct 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 19 Oct 2022

    UK ministers are being taken to court over allegations the government is breaking the law on EU citizens’ rights.

    • Construction
    • Hospitality
    • Ethics

    Home Office shifts modern slavery to immigration brief

    by Adam McCulloch 19 Oct 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 19 Oct 2022

    The Home Office has removed the modern slavery brief from the minister responsible for safeguarding and classed it as an ‘illegal immigration and asylum’ issue.

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