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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.

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Pay Benchmarker

Pay Benchmarker will help you to ensure you are paying the right level of salary necessary to recruit, retain and motivate staff in your sector and region. It brings together all of the data collected by IDR with user-friendly functionality.

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Pay Climate

Pay Climate provides the latest picture on pay awards across all sectors of the economy to enable pay practitioners to accurately assess the current climate on pay. Gain our insights on the key trends and developments in pay.

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20/04/2021 Urgent action needed on pay for sleep-in shifts, say union and charity chiefs | Express & Star

20/04/2021 New study reveals huge increase in females becoming tradeswomen in UK

20/04/2021 College strikes: Lecturers to walk out for two days across Tayside and Fife

20/04/2021 Entain launches sharesave scheme to 22,500 staff

20/04/2021 Scotland's night time economy 'on brink of collapse' with 'impending unemployment tsunami'

20/04/2021 Top HSBC executives to hot desk after losing private offices

20/04/2021 Britons working at home spend more time on job in Covid crisis, ONS finds | Economics | The Guardian

20/04/2021 Spire Healthcare boss awarded bonus worth over £300,000 after NHS Covid revenue boost | NHS | The Guardian

20/04/2021 Footfall in England up by almost 200% as Covid controls ease | Retail industry | The Guardian

19/04/2021 Co-op pays executive bonus despite keeping £66m in Covid relief | Executive pay and bonuses | The Guardian

19/04/2021 Will teachers fight a 'catch-up' extended school day?

19/04/2021 Shift pattern changes "destroying long-term health" of HGV drivers and warehousing staff | Motor Transport

19/04/2021 290 jobs: Fife yard deal is vote of confidence in new owners and skilled workforce | Fife Today

19/04/2021 Staff at The Royal College of General Practitioners vote

19/04/2021 ‘Fire and rehire’ tactics rife at firms that are in profit and claiming Covid cash | Employment law | The Guardian

19/04/2021 How Covid is driving an unlikely renaissance of the British retail park | Financial Times

19/04/2021 UK business groups call for mandatory reporting of ethnicity pay gap | Financial Times

19/04/2021 Unions demand sharp rise in sick pay for Covid self-isolation | Trade unions | The Guardian

19/04/2021 Supermarket and care staff in London could get key worker access to housing | Housing | The Guardian

19/04/2021 Job centre workers 'feel unsafe returning to work'

19/04/2021 Facebook: Our staff can carry on working from home after Covid

19/04/2021 Awin's four-day working week sees positive impact on employee wellbeing

19/04/2021 ‘Angry and worried’ teachers on strike over pensions

19/04/2021 Union starts Chivas Brothers strike ballot over ‘corporate greed’ pay freeze | ITV News

18/04/2021 Barnsley care home workers to receive wage boost

16/04/2021 Balfour chiefs share £1.8m bonus for 2020 | Construction News

16/04/2021 The Welsh Government promised all NHS workers a £500 bonus but can't say when they will be paid - Wales Online

16/04/2021 A third of marketers anticipate an imminent rise in job opportunities

16/04/2021 Nottingham City Council continuing to close gender pay gap | Hucknall Dispatch

16/04/2021 Leicester University staff vote for industrial action over job cuts | Universities | The Guardian

16/04/2021 Blackburn and Burnley NHS security staff cancel strikes after pay demands are met - LancsLive

16/04/2021 Serco workers vote to strike over the targeting of union activists

16/04/2021 Broxburn pizza oven firm Ooni ups entry salary to 54 higher than UK national minimum wage

16/04/2021 Amazon must ‘do a better job’ for its workers, says Jeff Bezos | Amazon | The Guardian

16/04/2021 Workers in insecure jobs twice as likely to die of Covid, TUC research finds | Zero-hours contracts | The Guardian

15/04/2021 Census staff forced to take unpaid leave after death of Prince Philip | Census | The Guardian

15/04/2021 HR salaries sit below UK average earnings

15/04/2021 How we cut our gender pay gap to just 1.15%

15/04/2021 Coronavirus blamed for loss of almost 100 jobs at Llanelli factory which makes airline cabin interiors - Wales Online

15/04/2021 A further 138 jobs at risk at Manchester Airport as union members vote on deal to take pay cuts instead - Manchester Evening News

15/04/2021 Deliveroo riders ordered to return ‘thank you’ bonus payment after technical glitch

15/04/2021 Almost 40% of UK workers ‘get less than a week’s notice of shift patterns’ | Gig economy | The Guardian

15/04/2021 Recruiters more prone to nepotism during pandemic, UK survey finds | Graduate careers | The Guardian

15/04/2021 Amazon 'to create 1,000 new jobs at Gateshead complex'

15/04/2021 140 jobs under threat at Calder Foods factory in Carlisle | Border | ITV News

15/04/2021 Mandatory vaccines move closer for UK care home staff | Financial Times

15/04/2021 DLA Piper gives staff thank you bonus - Employee Benefits

15/04/2021 Union to launch national consultative ballot over pay

15/04/2021 RMT strike: ScotRail ticket examiners to join conductors' protest over pay from end of April | The Scotsman

15/04/2021 Hospitality workers could see massive financial hit if tipping...

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