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Our research covers pay, benefits, reward practice and HR policy. We provide HR professionals with information, data, analysis and tools to help them make intelligent reward decisions.

In 2014 we identified a gap in the market for independent research on pay and reward and IDR is committed to filling that gap. Since then, we have delivered work for a wide range of clients and have a steadily growing subscriber base.

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News

30/04/2025 Weetabix workers at two UK plants strike over pay

30/04/2025 Salary sacrifice car schemes ranked as key employee benefit for 2025, research reveals | Business Motoring

30/04/2025 Offer civil servants who defer pensions higher payments, IFS director says

30/04/2025 Workers’ rights Bill could lead to cost increases and job cuts, retailers warn

30/04/2025 Strike action by Keele University staff in job cuts row

30/04/2025 New Dundee University plan aims to scale back job cuts

30/04/2025 North West Anglia NHS trust to cut costs and jobs to break even

30/04/2025 Peterborough bin staff welcome 3.6% pay rise to end dispute

30/04/2025 RIBA investigation: most young architectural workers don’t get Real Living Wage

30/04/2025 Birmingham council real plans laid bare as it now announces savage cuts for bin drivers

30/04/2025 Tensions between union and council worsen as lorry drivers' pay cuts proposed | ITV News

30/04/2025 Stagecoach drivers suspend strike ahead of pay talks

30/04/2025 Urgent need for teacher training amidst schools crisis

30/04/2025 RIBA publishes its Workplace and Wellbeing Report

30/04/2025 Food inflation highest in nearly a year

30/04/2025 The UK’s inflation figures were wrong and now we just have to live with that

30/04/2025 100 jobs at risk as owner of UK's largest bioethanol plant considers closure - Business Live

30/04/2025 Labour’s pledge to hire 6,500 extra teachers in England will be a ‘challenge’, report says

29/04/2025 University of Cambridge reports 16.7% mean gender total pay gap

29/04/2025 School Teachers' Review Body: All you need to know

29/04/2025 RCN calls for certainty from Government on rumoured NHS pay award

29/04/2025 STRB recommends teacher pay rise 'close to 4%' - reports

29/04/2025 Why is there a threat of new strikes over public sector pay?

29/04/2025 No extra money for NHS staff and teacher pay rises, warns Treasury

29/04/2025 Weetabix strike to go ahead in Corby and Burton Latimer

29/04/2025 App drivers to disrupt Heathrow on 1 May in global strike over pay and conditions - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

29/04/2025 AI in 1 in 5 schools - but staff not trained

29/04/2025 Unite advises members to reject latest pay offer

29/04/2025 First day of strike action called off at Cardiff University as talks over proposed cuts take place

29/04/2025 Stagecoach sparks outrage by cutting holidays ahead of bus strikes

29/04/2025 Airbus deal with supplier Spirit raises fears for 2,500 jobs in Belfast

29/04/2025 Almost 300 jobs at risk at chemicals factory in Barry | ITV News

28/04/2025 Pay work coaches properly and give them time to do their jobs, MPs hear

28/04/2025 'Nursery costs more than my salary' Parenting in Wales, where childcare is highest in UK | Wales Online

28/04/2025 Wates reports progress on inclusion and diversity - Construction Management

28/04/2025 Lashing out at staff is bad for business

28/04/2025 Midlands has lost 140,000 council workers since 2012, according to recent study

28/04/2025 Roedean staff to strike for first time in 140 years

28/04/2025 Hundreds of University of Dundee staff back strike action over threat to jobs

28/04/2025 The Original Factory Shop puts 1,000 jobs at risk under survival plan - Retail Gazette

28/04/2025 DWF launches redundancy consultation - more than 100 jobs at risk

25/04/2025 Sainsbury’s reports 7.5% mean gender pay gap

25/04/2025 Uni’s gender pay gap widens to 13%

25/04/2025 Employment Rights Bill will help tackle income inequality - High Pay Centre

25/04/2025 Firefighters recommended to accept 3.2% pay rise

25/04/2025 FCDO security staff get up to 13% pay rise

25/04/2025 Pharmacy closure called off after pay deal agreed in win for Mirror campaign - The Mirror

25/04/2025 Mediator called to settle Brum bin strike dispute

25/04/2025 Hundreds of Dundee university workers back strike action

25/04/2025 TotalEnergies workers balloted for strike action

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