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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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17/07/2026 'Absolute scandal' - Union claims thousands of Durham women are underpaid by council

17/07/2026 Mandatory staff rules could expand to GP practices

17/07/2026 Asda shakes up store staff working hours in bid to improve ...

17/07/2026 From presenteeism to fatherhood

17/07/2026 The new EU Pay Transparency Directive may reshape wages and the gender pay gap

17/07/2026 Criminal barristers to get pay rise under new government plans - Legal Cheek

17/07/2026 NHS pay rise: on-time award possible as 2027-28 process triggered

17/07/2026 Police Federation: Policing plunged in to further crisis as Government ignores recommendations of its own pay review body

17/07/2026 Workers face renewed cost of living squeeze as just 22% of employers plan inflation-beating pay rises - Lancaster University

17/07/2026 'Vital roles, vital recognition': Leeds NHS theatre staff to strike in pay dispute

17/07/2026 NEU teachers' union to launch formal strike ballot | Tes

17/07/2026 Oxalis tanker drivers secure landmark pay award after threat of strike action

17/07/2026 Neo Next offshore workers secure pay rise after strike threat

17/07/2026 AI isn’t destroying entry-level jobs. It’s changing them

17/07/2026 Government confirms care workers' negotiating body

17/07/2026 Police pay rise offer branded 'empty gesture' that will 'put public at risk'

17/07/2026 Dundee University staff to strike over five weeks amid job cut dispute

17/07/2026 Anglian Water hands chief £1.3mn in retention pay despite bonus curbs

16/07/2026 Staffordshire Commissioner backs offer to support PCSOs set to lose pay over shift changes - Lichfield Live®

16/07/2026 Thames Water increases bonus payments to £4m despite uncertainty over future

16/07/2026 Historic victory as Radisson Blu housekeepers win trade union recognition at two UK hotels - IER

16/07/2026 Merseyrail trains will only run to The Open during strikes

16/07/2026 PCS members secure improved Pay Offer following dispute with Capita

16/07/2026 Coastguards must have union voice

16/07/2026 Royal Fleet Auxiliary seafarers accept pay offer

16/07/2026 Care workers to get annual NHS-style pay rises

16/07/2026 “One of the most successful social movements of the century” - new report marks 25 years of the Living Wage campaign | Living Wage Foundation

16/07/2026 ‘Pharmacists should not have to pick between a career and a family’

16/07/2026 Most E&S consulting early careers plan to stay, but salary still drives attrition

16/07/2026 Burberry investors question CEO pay increase

16/07/2026 Parents face £1,100 bill for summer holiday childcare

16/07/2026 Urgent tipping clarity needed from Government - UKHospitality

16/07/2026 Unite members to demonstrate against outsourcing by Royal United Hospitals Bath, Great Western Hospitals and Salisbury NHS Foundation Trusts

16/07/2026 Strikes suspended at MoD

16/07/2026 Number of higher and additional UK taxpayers rises 35% in 3 years

16/07/2026 SEND teams hit disproportionately hard by NHS job cuts

16/07/2026 Police officers to get 3.5% pay rise in England and Wales, Home Office says

16/07/2026 Private medical insurance ranked as UK’s most-desired employee benefit

16/07/2026 82% who returned to work early after pregnancy could not afford full statutory maternity leave entitlement

16/07/2026 Salary information to be shown on job ads under new laws

16/07/2026 Black doctors in England four times less likely to get training places than white counterparts

15/07/2026 Evidence highlights potential of flexible working to close the

15/07/2026 Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities

15/07/2026 Teaching unions announce formal dispute over pay and funding | ITV News

15/07/2026 Nursing unions take pay demands to health secretary James Murray

15/07/2026 Pension U-turn after big ballot win at National Library of Wales

15/07/2026 Understanding the gender pay gap in the UK: Drivers and barriers, evidence from UKLHS 2009 to 2023

15/07/2026 STEM promotion bias helping drive academic gender gap

15/07/2026 CNC narrows gender pay gap to record low

15/07/2026 Equal pay system to be improved as government launches consultation process

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