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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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29/06/2026 NI health: Resident doctors begin strike action over pay

29/06/2026 Strike at Haldane Fisher in Newry enters third week: ‘We’re here for a decent pay rise’

29/06/2026 Staff at six Bristol schools to strike

29/06/2026 Ocado boss Tim Steiner’s near £100m in pay raises ‘serious concerns’

29/06/2026 Fleet News salary survey: are you being paid enough?

29/06/2026 The state of the creative industry 2026: what our survey tells us about pay, burnout and AI

29/06/2026 MPs bodyguards denied stab-vests on outsourced protection service contract

29/06/2026 High street's half-year score: 3,618 jobs and 400 shops lost

29/06/2026 DWP unveils closure plans for regional offices

29/06/2026 Union lodges dispute with college over 'management style and institutional culture'

29/06/2026 Lidl ringfences 10% of job interviews for people out of work for six months

29/06/2026 Reversing UK employment tax rises ‘would do little to help young people find jobs’

26/06/2026 Retail warns access to work is becoming biggest challenge to inclusion

26/06/2026 Buckingham Palace Did Not Meet Its Ethnic Minority Staff Diversity Targets

26/06/2026 Northumbrian Water Group unveils new equity, diversity and inclusion strategy for 2026–30, marking next phase of inclusion-led growth - Water Magazine

26/06/2026 HEALTH BOARD: Swansea Bay to cut up to 800 jobs in three-year bid to balance the books - Swansea Bay News

26/06/2026 We need to know teacher pay-rise plans, leaders tell DfE

26/06/2026 Women gain ground in Scottish law firms, but stark partnership pay gap persists

26/06/2026 Hospital theatre staff strike over overtime pay cuts - Bedford Independent

26/06/2026 DWP announces mass office closure programme

26/06/2026 Leeds faces equal pay claim worth 'hundreds of millions'

26/06/2026 College lecturers to get more than 10 pay rise over three years

26/06/2026 Psychiatric workforce in NI at breaking point: 72% considering leaving amid burnout and lack of support – new RCPsych in NI survey calls for action

26/06/2026 NHS staff at Fairfield Hospital on strike today as overtime pay row escalates

26/06/2026 Companies rush to fire high earners before UK ends cap on unfair dismissal payouts

26/06/2026 Revolut scraps ‘remote-first’ working for graduate hires

25/06/2026 Social workers settle pay dispute as new strike threat looms

25/06/2026 NI health: Consultants and specialist doctors begin strike action

25/06/2026 Strike action considered by firefighters over proposed job losses and station closures

25/06/2026 Redundancies at Falmouth Docks despite pledge of no job cuts

25/06/2026 Deltapoll: 95% of NEU members believe their school will struggle to afford an unfunded pay rise | National Education Union

25/06/2026 Trade union weighs up 4pc pay offer from Short Brothers for Belfast site

25/06/2026 Council to investigate £327,000 pay-off for Edinburgh Trams boss

25/06/2026 Employment law shake-up: What it means for North Sea energy

25/06/2026 Further London strikes at world-leading Institute of Cancer Research

25/06/2026 Adult social care vacancy rate falls to lowest level in a decade - Community Care

25/06/2026 75 jobs lost as Midlands engineering supplier collapses into administration | TheBusinessDesk.com

25/06/2026 FCDO officials vote for strike action over restructure plans

25/06/2026 Our response to the consultation on collective redundancy obligations | NHS Employers

25/06/2026 Trust hits back at Bradford school strike over redundancies and excessive class sizes

25/06/2026 290 jobs on the line as Gousto weighs up site closure

24/06/2026 Royal Mail boss’s pay package triples to £6.9m despite profits slide

24/06/2026 Knight Frank confirms job losses in UK business

24/06/2026 Minding the gap: Shifting media attitudes to women in engineering - The Engineer

24/06/2026 Equal pay claims pose ‘unquantifiable’ financial risk, councillors told

24/06/2026 19% of UK men have never asked for a pay rise or promotion

24/06/2026 Rejection of flexible work threatens rising number of female engineers, IMechE experts say

24/06/2026 Support staff at Codsall schools take further strike action

24/06/2026 Low paid Belfast members launch petition following strike action

24/06/2026 PCS members vote for strike action over FCDO restructure

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