More than 1,000 employees at chocolate giant Cadbury have gained a pay rise of more than 17% over the next two years.
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!
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BT workers vote to take strike action as TUC hails rush to join unions.
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Company boards increasingly want chief financial officers to go beyond their traditional remits, bringing them into areas such as HR and IT.
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NHS leaders have urged the government to implement a national care worker minimum wage of £10.50 an hour with immediate effect as the service struggles to retain staff.Â
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Figures from a job search engine show that in May 2022 there were 14,690 graduate job vacancies advertised in the UK compared with 9,265 this time last year.
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It is not the case that social mobility is in decline in the UK and worse than in other comparable countries, the Social Mobility Commission has claimed.
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This month so far has seen major new appointments at several tech giants and a plum job at one of the UK's leading banks.
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GMB and Unite demand full back pay after 10% cut during pandemic as bonuses for senior management soar.
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To meet the needs of the net zero economy far more needs to be done to educate and train young people in green roles.
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A new study of EU migrants living in the UK has revealed the deep psychological impact of leaving the EU.
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Government should increase the car mileage allowance that employees can claim when using their own vehicles for business travel.
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Some sound advice for working in high temperatures as the first heatwave of summer hits the UK; plus why UK workers are so 'compassionate'.
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The number of flights in August at the airport south of London will be reduced to 825 from the current 850. In recent years there were over 900 flights per day.
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New research reveals that only 1% of tradespeople are women in the UK.
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The number of job adverts was six percentage points more than in the first week of June.