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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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Our viewpoints provide insights into our knowledge and expertise relating to pay and employment. Learn how to gain full access.

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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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26/10/2021 Boots ‘disappointed’ by PDA Union member’s rejection of pay proposal

26/10/2021 Unite engineering members accept latest Abellio Scotrail pay offer

26/10/2021 Bus driver strikes WILL NOT go ahead as workers vote to accept pay offer

26/10/2021 Arriva bus drivers set to strike over Halloween weekend | ITV News

26/10/2021 Premier Inn owner Whitbread warns of staff shortages as demand recovers

26/10/2021 Will Sunak’s budget really help ease the cost of living squeeze?

26/10/2021 RSA commits to becoming menopause friendly - Employee Benefits %

26/10/2021 Zurich UK sees 300,000 paternity leave hours taken - Employee Benefits

26/10/2021 UK haulage industry tells PM to act on supply chains or face Christmas crisis

26/10/2021 UK ‘national living wage’ to rise to £9.50 an hour from next April

25/10/2021 St Mary’s Publishes Inaugural Ethnicity Pay Gap Report

25/10/2021 Biggest firms won’t record sex of bosses under diversity plans

25/10/2021 Care staff set for pay rise

25/10/2021 Portmeirion introduces range of staff incentives amid national labour shortages

25/10/2021 Police Scotland officers get £700 pay rise plus £250 bonus

25/10/2021 £500 joining fee for new recruits at bed company

25/10/2021 Go North East drivers in County Durham could strike after pay offer is REJECTED again

25/10/2021 6000 Boots Pharmacists Reject Company Offer 2% Pay Increase

25/10/2021 Strikes to continue at Dundee Uni due to DB scheme closure

25/10/2021 Mini delivery drivers to strike over poor pay

25/10/2021 Unite hails trade union recognition agreement at TWI’s Cambridge headquarters

25/10/2021 Frustrated Stagecoach staff vote for 12 days of strike action

25/10/2021 80% of UK employers plan to hire over next 12 months, survey says

25/10/2021 UK inflation could top 5% by early 2022, says Bank’s new chief economist

25/10/2021 Great Britain’s retailers hit by longest spending slump since 1996

25/10/2021 Christmas bin collections in UK at risk as lorry drivers quit

25/10/2021 Fear not: there is little danger of inflation running wild

25/10/2021 South Ribble and Chorley councils launch hybrid work - Employee Benefits

25/10/2021 Cleaners win back furlough wages from Pridegreen - Employee Benefits

25/10/2021 Stagecoach say directors' payrise set two and a half years ago amid dispute with trade union

25/10/2021 RMT ScotRail staff vow to go ahead with planned strike action during COP26 as talks breakdown

22/10/2021 Clipper delivers flexible pay to 9,000 employees

22/10/2021 Strike threat from Central Bedfordshire waste collection workers

22/10/2021 GPs in England threaten industrial action over in-person appointments

22/10/2021 N. Sea oil worker strike set to disrupt Ninian crude stream Nov.5-Dec.4

22/10/2021 Strike action averted after Stagecoach East workers accepted new pay deal

22/10/2021 Billingham scaffold workers at Mitsubishi Chemicals to strike over ‘shocking pay disparity’

22/10/2021 Bus driver shortage due to better HGV pay, claims union

22/10/2021 COP26 Scotrail strikes still set to continue, despite one union's decision to call off industrial action

22/10/2021 Jewish Care to raise salaries of over 500 lower paid staff in £1.5 million commitment

22/10/2021 Marks and Spencer to change staff menopause policy - Employee Benefits

22/10/2021 GPs head for industrial action ballot as BMA backs 'support package' boycott

21/10/2021 Purplebricks faces legal action over pay and pensions - Employee Benefits

21/10/2021 Co-op delivery drivers win 5% pay rise | Motor Transport

21/10/2021 Brighton council workers will get pay rise as bin strike ends

21/10/2021 North Wales power station workers vote to strike

21/10/2021 Sheffield bin crews set to strike over pay and conditions

21/10/2021 Chesterfield bus strikes called off after drivers accept improved pay offer

21/10/2021 Warning of 'serious and immediate' impact on JLR production if strike goes ahead

21/10/2021 Union warns Grangemouth port could be hit by dockers' strike

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