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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!

    • Hybrid working
    • Civil Service
    • Coronavirus

    Department for Education staff told to return to offices

    by Adam McCulloch 22 Apr 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 22 Apr 2022

    Education secretary Nadhim Zahawi tells MPs he didn't know why his department's staff had the highest stay-at-home rate among civil servants.

    • Career paths
    • Careers in HR
    • Latest News

    Movers and shakers April 2022: Santander UK appoints new chief people officer

    by Adam McCulloch 22 Apr 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 22 Apr 2022

    New appointments in the field of HR including a major role at Santander UK and a strategic leadership appointment at St John Ambulance.

    • Hybrid working
    • Civil Service
    • Employee relations

    Hybrid working: executives returning to office less than employees

    by Adam McCulloch 21 Apr 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 21 Apr 2022

    As hybrid working is frowned upon by Jacon Rees-Mogg, research suggests executives spend more time working from home than the employees they are urging to return to the office.

    • Corporate governance
    • Ethics
    • Latest News

    Mary Portas and coalition of firms urge MPs to support a Better Business Act

    by Adam McCulloch 21 Apr 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 21 Apr 2022

    MPs hear how replacing sections of the Companies Act would avoid scandals such as the P&O Ferries sackings.

    • Collective redundancy
    • Latest News
    • Employment contracts

    Government must take over P&O Ferries services, demands TUC

    by Adam McCulloch 15 Apr 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 15 Apr 2022

    Union leaders have called on ministers to assume control of P&O Ferries’ passenger and freight services in the light of multiple safety failures.

    • Employment law
    • Discipline
    • Latest News

    Boris Johnson’s partygate fixed penalty notice: any lessons for HR?

    by Adam McCulloch 14 Apr 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 14 Apr 2022

    Partygate has put the spotlight on internal investigations but are there really any lessons for HR? Meanwhile, suits are increasingly out at interviews…

    • Employee relations
    • Employment law
    • Latest News

    Record £850k payout for teacher assaulted by pupil

    by Adam McCulloch 14 Apr 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 14 Apr 2022

    Teachers union reveals £15m was paid out to teachers who were subject to unfair dismissal, violence, bullying and unlawful deductions from wages.

    • Collective redundancy
    • Latest News
    • Job creation and losses

    Planned redundancies rise 103% in one month

    by Adam McCulloch 11 Apr 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 11 Apr 2022

    Insolvency Service data on planned redundancies record large jump in February 2022.

    • Latest News
    • Retail
    • Job creation and losses

    Sainsbury’s increases wages for second time in four months

    by Adam McCulloch 8 Apr 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 8 Apr 2022

    Pressure from investors over the cost of living has prompted Sainsbury’s to raise wages for the second time this year.

    • Collective redundancy
    • Latest News
    • Employment contracts

    P&O Ferries: owner DP World pulls out of freeport scheme

    by Adam McCulloch 8 Apr 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 8 Apr 2022

    P&O Ferries owner DP World has withdrawn from the leadership team of a freeport project because of political pressure stemming from the P&O Ferries redundancies.

    • Civil Service
    • Collective redundancy
    • Latest News

    Insolvency Service launches criminal probe into P&O Ferries sackings

    by Adam McCulloch 1 Apr 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 1 Apr 2022

    At the request of ministers the Insolvency Service has begun criminal and civil investigations into the P&O Ferries redundancies.

    • Bullying and harassment
    • Employee engagement
    • Latest News

    What are the HR lessons of the Will Smith Oscars incident? But seriously …

    by Adam McCulloch 1 Apr 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 1 Apr 2022

    Lessons for HR from events at the Oscar ceremony in Hollywood earlier this week; research into the UK's chattiest towns at work.

    • Coronavirus
    • Testing
    • Latest News

    Businesses sound alarm over rising Covid rates

    by Adam McCulloch 1 Apr 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 1 Apr 2022

    British Chambers of Commerce seeks more support from ministers for smaller firms now that free Covid testing has ended.

    • NHS
    • Local authorities
    • Latest News

    Public sector organisations yet to report as gender pay gap deadline passes

    by Adam McCulloch 1 Apr 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 1 Apr 2022

    2021-22 gender pay gap reporting deadline passes for public sector organisations.

    • Collective redundancy
    • Employment law
    • Latest News

    Ministers withdraw legal threat over P&O Ferries redundancies

    by Adam McCulloch 1 Apr 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 1 Apr 2022

    The Nautilus Union: ‘P&O has gotten away with it. There’s no fine, there’s no legal action, there’s only words and hot air.’

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