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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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10/06/2026 Can common sense replace Equality Act protections, as Kemi Badenoch suggests?

10/06/2026 Courage rewarded: Armed Forces personnel to get above-inflation pay rise of 3.6%

10/06/2026 Armed Forces personnel receive third consecutive above inflation pay rise

10/06/2026 DfE announces £4,500 bonus for early years teachers in 10 most deprived areas - Nursery World

10/06/2026 400 North Wales defence workers to strike in pay row

10/06/2026 Dundee University staff vote in support of more strike action

10/06/2026 Sellafield site pay dispute sparks new week-long strike

10/06/2026 Strike action curtailed as Brighton Pavilion charity staff receive verbal offer

10/06/2026 Plans being made to mitigate delays as NHS staff walk out in holiday pay row

10/06/2026 Great Yarmouth summer stink as refuse workers prepare for poverty pay strikes

10/06/2026 Unions slam 'lack of progress' on support staff pay

10/06/2026 Academisation threatens equal pay, unions warn ministers

10/06/2026 Horticulture industry shifts towards higher-paid roles

10/06/2026 Strikes at cutting-edge Welsh defence optics company

10/06/2026 National Education Union staff to take strike action

10/06/2026 170 jobs lost as historic Gateshead group ceases trading after over 100 years

10/06/2026 Thousands of graduates earning less than living wage after five years

10/06/2026 Strike action at Sellafield likely to start next week – cumbriacrack.com

10/06/2026 The pension system missed Gen X women — what if they are the future?

10/06/2026 Over 100 jobs at risk as Norfolk biomass plant faces closure - Bioenergy Insight Magazine

10/06/2026 UK’s biggest retailers urge government to act on youth unemployment

09/06/2026 Kemi Badenoch to call for scrapping of legal equality duty

09/06/2026 New research suggests a 4-day work week would result in a significant improvement to disabled peoples' inclusion at work - IER

09/06/2026 Driverless taxi rollout raises concerns over future of UK cabbies

09/06/2026 NI health: Hospital doctors to strike in pay dispute

09/06/2026 Offshore Wind Fair Work Charter Backed by Nearly 40 Firms

09/06/2026 Staff at Lancashire hospitals to strike over holiday pay refusal

09/06/2026 Tower Hamlets Be Well leisure centre staff to strike over zero-hour contracts

09/06/2026 Northumberland Amcor strikes end after Unite secures pay deal

09/06/2026 Equity agrees major new television deal in Wales on pay and AI

09/06/2026 GMB calls for reform as Parliamentary staff face ‘systemic inequality’

09/06/2026 Union raises alarm over bullying and harassment

09/06/2026 Council building workers to strike over pay

09/06/2026 Haldane Fisher workers set for strike in Newry after pay offer rejected

09/06/2026 Private sector median pay award holds steady at 3.5%

09/06/2026 Unpaid carers and parents of seriously ill children could get new rights under Government proposals

09/06/2026 Nationwide nearly doubles CEO’s pay packet to £4.7m despite bonus row

08/06/2026 The £8bn legal crusade engulfing Britain’s biggest retailers

08/06/2026 Equal pay talks have not broken down in Coventry, says city council

08/06/2026 BRC warns government not to ‘regulate flexible jobs out of existence’ | Retail Bulletin

08/06/2026 London registers a renewed fall in permanent placements in May - London Post

08/06/2026 UK pay settlements hold at 3.5% for second month, IDR survey shows

08/06/2026 Workers at JLR supplier 'losing £500 per month' to decide on strike action

08/06/2026 Bedfordshire hospital theatre staff vote for strike action in overtime pay dispute - Bedford Independent

08/06/2026 Goldsmiths staff to strike 'indefinitely' over proposed job cuts

08/06/2026 PCS pressure forces U-turn as Met agrees to retain PCSOs

08/06/2026 Council officers wanted to sack striking bin workers, says ex-Birmingham leader | ITV News

08/06/2026 Bilfinger offshore workers strike suspended

08/06/2026 Parcel delivery giant Yodel cuts 60 lorry driver jobs

08/06/2026 Shipyard worker strikes will risk further delays to Clyde warships – union

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