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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!

    • Acas
    • Dispute resolution
    • Local authorities

    Acas hosts talks to end Birmingham bin strike

    by Adam McCulloch 1 May 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 1 May 2025

    The talks represent Acas’s first major involvement in attempts to end the full strike since it started, on 11 March.

    • Acas
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Latest News

    Quarter of employees worried AI will threaten jobs – Acas

    by Adam McCulloch 28 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 28 Apr 2025

    More than a quarter of workers are worried that artificial intelligence will lead to job losses, according to an Acas study.

    • Artificial intelligence
    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    Google concerned by slow AI take-up in UK

    by Adam McCulloch 25 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 25 Apr 2025

    AI could add £400bn to the UK economy by 2030 through increased productivity but only a small proportion of this boost would occur unless the country embraced the new technology

    • CIPD
    • Employment law
    • Latest News

    CIPD: Employment Rights Bill timetable needs clarity

    by Adam McCulloch 25 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 25 Apr 2025

    Employment Rights Bill: companies fear the difficulties of implementing so many changes at one time.

    • USA
    • Latest News
    • Discrimination

    Trump ‘restores’ meritocracy by eroding discrimination protections

    by Adam McCulloch 25 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 25 Apr 2025

    An executive order issued by President Trump signifies a major reversal for protections from discrimination and may have significant ramifications for the workplace.

    • Legal sector
    • Latest News
    • Employment tribunals

    Misconduct verdict for tardy employment judge

    by Adam McCulloch 25 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 25 Apr 2025

    An employment judge who delayed providing written reasons in a case for six months has been issued with formal advice for misconduct.

    • Brexit
    • Right to work
    • Europe

    Labour MPs urge more flexibility with EU over youth mobility

    by Adam McCulloch 24 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 24 Apr 2025

    In a letter to Labour’s shadow foreign secretary MPs and peers asked for a bespoke youth visa scheme for UK and EU citizens under 30. 

    • Europe
    • USA
    • North America

    UK employees worried by potential rise of US working culture

    by Adam McCulloch 24 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 24 Apr 2025

    Workers in Italy, France, Spain, Germany, and the UK have a heightened level of anxiety over the spread of US corporate culture in Europe

    • Corporate governance
    • Latest News
    • Global mobility

    Succession planning now ‘more of a priority than AI and risk’

    by Adam McCulloch 24 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 24 Apr 2025

    Compared with 2024, the number of directors that cited succession planning as a difficult issue to oversee has more than doubled in the US.

    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business
    • Inflation

    NI increase has not caused ‘knee-jerk reaction’ in pay awards

    by Adam McCulloch 23 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 23 Apr 2025

    Despite the recent increase in National Insurance contributions, data from Brightmine, indicates that a sharp drop in pay awards is unlikely in the near term.

    • Case law
    • Gender
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    Supreme Court transgender ruling: ‘common sense’ or ‘incredibly worrying’?

    by Adam McCulloch 17 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 17 Apr 2025

    Campaigners, HR experts and employment law specialists have been having their say on a crucial Supreme Court judgment in the UK. We gauge their views.

    • General Data Protection Regulation
    • Employee engagement
    • Data protection

    Remote working may have triggered jump in employee data breaches

    by Adam McCulloch 17 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 17 Apr 2025

    The number of reported breaches relating to employees’ data is at the highest level since at least 2019 when 3,010 breaches were reported to the Information Commissioner's Office.

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

    Stabilising labour market offers ‘glimmers of hope’

    by Adam McCulloch 17 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 17 Apr 2025

    There are signs of momentum in the economy that may push back against the effects of rising costs, the REC has found.

    • Manufacturing
    • Economics, government & business
    • Public sector

    British Steel: MPs recalled to enable nationalisation

    by Adam McCulloch 11 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 11 Apr 2025

    Parliament is to be recalled to debate an emergency law to save British Steel’s plant in Scunthorpe from imminent closure.

    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business
    • Inflation

    Rosier growth figures don’t take into account Trump’s tariffs

    by Adam McCulloch 11 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 11 Apr 2025

    Chancellor Rachel Reeves has welcomed new figures indicating an unexpected rate of growth for the UK economy in February.

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