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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!

    • Right to work
    • Latest News
    • Gig economy

    New right to work checks put onus on gig economy firms

    by Adam McCulloch 3 Apr 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 3 Apr 2025

    For the very first time, the Home Office stated, employment checks would be extended to cover businesses hiring gig economy and zero-hours workers.

    • National living wage
    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    Most businesses will need to adjust wages in April

    by Adam McCulloch 28 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 28 Mar 2025

    Data shows nearly 60% of organisations will need to raise wages, with three-quarters expecting challenges around pay gaps between job levels.

    • Latest News
    • Pay & benefits
    • Pay structures

    ‘British people too polite to talk about salary? Oh, pur-leese’

    by Adam McCulloch 28 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 28 Mar 2025

    The survey of 7,000 workers in Europe highlight a cultural divide between professional openness and social discomfort, claims Indeed.

    • Collective redundancy
    • Scotland
    • Latest News

    Reasons behind Dundee University job losses to be probed

    by Adam McCulloch 28 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 28 Mar 2025

    Broken down, the full-time equivalent job losses consisted of 197 academic roles, 119 school-based professional services posts in schools, and 316 directorate roles.

    • USA
    • Employment law
    • North America

    Florida to relax child labour laws

    by Adam McCulloch 28 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 28 Mar 2025

    Children as young as 14 would be allowed to work overnight shifts under new laws being passed in the US state of Florida.

    • Careers in HR
    • Getting into HR
    • Latest News

    Senior HR pay rising faster than junior roles

    by Adam McCulloch 28 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 28 Mar 2025

    Pay has grown at a faster rate for HR directors over the past year when compared with most other roles in HR, according to a new study.

    • Bullying and harassment
    • Belief discrimination
    • Gender

    University of Sussex attacks Kathleen Stock freedom of speech ruling

    by Adam McCulloch 27 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 27 Mar 2025

    The University of Sussex has accused higher regulation regulator the Office for Students of mounting a ‘vindictive and unreasonable campaign’ against it.

    • Collective redundancy
    • Latest News
    • Manufacturing

    British Steel to shed 2,700 jobs at Scunthorpe plant

    by Adam McCulloch 27 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 27 Mar 2025

    Unite's Sharon Graham said British Steel was guilty of trying to hold the government to ransom, while using its workforce as ‘pawns’

    • Acas
    • Collective bargaining
    • USA

    Trump orders closure of US mediation body in industrial disputes

    by Adam McCulloch 27 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 27 Mar 2025

    It is unlikely that Trump has any legal authority to move against the agency because the agency's funding and programmes are authorised and funded by Congress.

    • NHS
    • Latest News
    • Public sector

    ‘Inconsistent immigration policy since Brexit is damaging the NHS’

    by Adam McCulloch 21 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 21 Mar 2025

    The NHS is relying on workers who originally come from countries where there is a critical shortage of health specialists.

    • Discipline
    • Latest News
    • Workplace culture

    ’Task masking’ – the trend you didn’t need to know existed

    by Adam McCulloch 21 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 21 Mar 2025

    Task masking is a new buzzword for ‘getting out of doing something you should have been doing’. But is it really needed?

    • Latest News
    • Business continuity
    • Business travel

    HR advice for workers stranded by Heathrow airport closure

    by Adam McCulloch 21 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 21 Mar 2025

    The fire started at an electrical substation in nearby Hayes at about 11pm last night. The airport is currently closed until 23.59pm with passengers asked not to travel to it.

    • Careers in HR
    • Latest News
    • HR practice

    What do HR specialists enjoy most about their jobs?

    by Adam McCulloch 21 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 21 Mar 2025

    Supporting employees has been named as the top reason for why people like working in HR, with recruiting new employees and growing the business a close second.

    • Employment law
    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    New rates for employment tribunal awards from April

    by Adam McCulloch 21 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 21 Mar 2025

    The draft Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2025, which applies to England, Wales and Scotland, is now before parliament.

    • Latest News
    • Tech sector
    • Graduates

    Tech now offering fewer young people job opportunities

    by Adam McCulloch 21 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 21 Mar 2025

    Job adverts for tech roles have plummeted in the UK over the past five years, with a 50% decline in tech job ads since 2019. 

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