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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!

    • Construction
    • Social mobility
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    ‘I’m not an activist: I just want fairer and more diverse recruitment’

    by Adam McCulloch 25 Jul 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 25 Jul 2022

    With huge pressure on the construction industry to build new homes and infrastructure, diversity chief Mark Harrison explains how EDI initiatives will produce a fairer sector with more skills

    • Latest News
    • Job creation and losses
    • Labour market

    Number of planned redundancies in UK falls by 21% in last quarter

    by Adam McCulloch 22 Jul 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 22 Jul 2022

    The number of planned redundancies in the UK fell by 21% in the last quarter.

    • Latest News
    • Labour market
    • Holidays and holiday pay

    Employees struggle to take time off over summer

    by Adam McCulloch 22 Jul 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 22 Jul 2022

    A fifth of the nation’s office workers are being prevented from taking time off work because of staff shortages and reduced resources.

    • Brexit
    • Latest News
    • Labour market

    Ryanair boss urges ministers to help hire more foreign staff

    by Adam McCulloch 22 Jul 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 22 Jul 2022

    Michael O'Leary has criticised the UK government over its approach to foreign workers and urged it to take a more ‘practical, common sense’ approach to post-Brexit policy.

    • Bonuses
    • Coronavirus
    • NHS

    Health leader repays Covid bonus because of staff cost of living concerns

    by Adam McCulloch 22 Jul 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 22 Jul 2022

    The head of an NHS integrated care board has said she will return a bonus paid for her management of the Covid pandemic.

    • Artificial intelligence
    • Department for Business and Trade (DBT)
    • Latest News

    Ministers signal ‘light touch’ regulation of AI in the UK

    by Adam McCulloch 21 Jul 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 21 Jul 2022

    Artificial intelligence will be subject to tighter regulation in the UK in future, the government has signalled.

    • Latest News
    • Inflation
    • Pay & benefits

    Average UK households £8,800 poorer than French and German equivalents

    by Adam McCulloch 21 Jul 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 21 Jul 2022

    The average British household is £8,800 poorer than its equivalent in five comparable countries, research has found.

    • Artificial intelligence
    • Age discrimination
    • Latest News

    AI recruitment systems to be investigated over discrimination worries

    by Adam McCulloch 14 Jul 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 14 Jul 2022

    The UK privacy watchdog is to probe whether employers using artificial intelligence in recruitment could be discriminating against ethnic minorities and people with disabilities.

    • Employee relations
    • Collective bargaining
    • Latest News

    Train drivers will strike on Saturday 30 July

    by Adam McCulloch 14 Jul 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 14 Jul 2022

    The Aslef union has announced that train drivers at eight rail companies will strike on 30 July in a dispute over pay after talks broke down over a pay offer.

    • Hybrid working
    • Latest News
    • Flexible working

    Hybrid working: employees reluctant to return to workplace

    by Adam McCulloch 14 Jul 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 14 Jul 2022

    New data reveals a clear majority of UK organisations are still encountering challenges implementing hybrid working.

    • Collective bargaining
    • Employee relations
    • Dispute resolution

    RMT union rejects Network Rail pay offer – strike set for 27 July

    by Adam McCulloch 13 Jul 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 13 Jul 2022

    Network Rail has has put forward a fresh pay offer as it attempts to break the deadlock with rail unions.

    • Latest News
    • Dismissal
    • Employment tribunals

    Whistleblowers’ charity condemns Court of Appeal judgment

    by Adam McCulloch 13 Jul 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 13 Jul 2022

    Protect said the Court of Appeal's judgment would make it easier to victimise and dismiss whistleblowers.

    • Latest News
    • Resignations

    The perfect card for the great resignation

    by Adam McCulloch 8 Jul 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 8 Jul 2022

    Resignation cards are here to resolve the problem posed by the dreaded resignation chat. Shame they weren’t here in time for government ministers this week.

    • Latest News
    • Industrial action / strikes
    • Inflation

    BA check-in staff offered ‘vastly improved’ pay offer

    by Adam McCulloch 7 Jul 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 7 Jul 2022

    Unite and the GMB unions have announced that the industrial dispute affecting BA check-in staff at Heathrow airport has been suspended after the company made a ‘vastly improved’ pay offer.

    • Latest News
    • Dismissal
    • Leadership

    PM’s resignation sheds light on leadership psychology and dismissal

    by Adam McCulloch 7 Jul 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 7 Jul 2022

    Businesses have very different ways of dealing with leaders who aren't performing than political groups. Psychology is key.

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