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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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04/09/2026 Major children’s charity drops Living Wage due to ‘affordability pressures’

04/09/2026 Care sector firms feature prominently in Government's minimum wage breach list

04/09/2026 Unions urge Stormont to agree fair budget or face more industrial action

04/09/2026 Wrexham Council strike ballot fell short of turnout threshold but 87% of voters backed action, union says

04/09/2026 NHS lorry drivers supplying hospitals ballot for strikes over pay

04/09/2026 Workers at Leicester aerospace company SPS Technologies Ltd to walk out indefinitely over pay

04/09/2026 The university degree is losing its lustre

04/09/2026 Glasgow council under pressure to deliver new pay structure

04/09/2026 Zero-hours reforms could cost employers up to £2.9bn a year, analysis finds

04/09/2026 HR co-ordinator with ADHD wins £200k after tribunal finds she was deliberately undermined

04/09/2026 John Lewis boss ‘optimistic’ for Christmas despite ‘perma crisis externally’

04/09/2026 Paddy Power to close up to 100 betting shops in another bitter blow to racing's finances as budgets tax rises bite

04/09/2026 More join British Armed Forces than leave for full year

03/09/2026 Gender Pension Gap: retired women effectively go 4 months a year without a pension - IER

03/09/2026 Glasgow council in 'critical condition' with £110m budget gap, homelessness crisis and equal pay row

03/09/2026 Morrisons puts 80 more jobs at risk in latest restructure

03/09/2026 The Boar

03/09/2026 6.3 million workers in insecure jobs with short notice of shifts and cancellations costing some £500 a month

03/09/2026 When is an economist not an economist?

03/09/2026 Southern England hospital and pharmacy supply disruption as warehouse workers strike

03/09/2026 Workers in strike ballot with North Sea operator Apache

03/09/2026 Uber announces 3,000 job cuts as part of major restructure

03/09/2026 The best, worst and strangest ways AI is really being used at work

03/09/2026 London bus strikes postponed after ‘significantly improved offer’

03/09/2026 Transport Scotland to be brought back into Scottish Government control

03/09/2026 Almost half of households do not see benefits of economic growth, report says

03/09/2026 B&Q and Five Guys among firms which paid staff below minimum wage

02/09/2026 Northern Ireland Teachers' unions vote in favour of strike action

02/09/2026 Warrington: Around 230 jobs at risk at cash-strapped council

02/09/2026 Women in the arts feel age affects their career success – report

02/09/2026 Diageo scraps ESG and diversity targets as bosses focus on profits

02/09/2026 South London & Maudsley NHS estates workers strike suspended

02/09/2026 Redundant Lindsey oil refinery workers fight for compensation

02/09/2026 Oxford University Press staff strike over offshoring plans

02/09/2026 John Swinney's plan to slash NHS boards faces fierce union backlash

02/09/2026 Arriva North London - significantly improved offer to workers could signal end of dispute

02/09/2026 ‘Plan 2’ graduates earning less than £45,000 are unlikely to clear debts

02/09/2026 Bristol Myers Squibb receives menopause-friendly accreditation honour

02/09/2026 When is an engineer not an engineer?

02/09/2026 55 jobs at risk as manufacturer files for administration | TheBusinessDesk.com

02/09/2026 20,000 Security Guards Had No Right to Work in Britain: What Happened?

01/09/2026 Glasgow council workers 'walk out in tears' as thousands to be cut from wages over 'equal pay'

01/09/2026 UK households will take £2,400 financial hit from Iran war, analysis shows

01/09/2026 Burnham urged to tackle outsourcing ‘scourge’ as spending on private contracts soars, say unions

01/09/2026 Telford printing firm in administration placing around 160 jobs under threat

01/09/2026 Over 100 workers at major oil and gas firm to strike at Scottish site

01/09/2026 RMT to ballot Chiltern Railway members for strike action over East West Rail

01/09/2026 Striking aerospace workers secure bumper new pay deal

01/09/2026 GAC dock workers in Eastham to strike over pay

01/09/2026 Pilgrims workers begin all-out strike over pay in Enniskillen

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