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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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02/06/2026 BBC News: 'More sign up' after union open Coventry council equal pay claims - BBC News

02/06/2026 ILO moves to set binding global standards for gig economy workers

02/06/2026 Fresh equal pay headache for Coventry council

02/06/2026 Major Welsh employer quietly drops living wage commitment

02/06/2026 RFA officers to strike for 24 hours in pay dispute escalation

02/06/2026 46% of employers do not publish their ethnicity pay gap data

02/06/2026 More than half of GPNs report working while feeling mentally unwell, finds survey

02/06/2026 Neo Next offshore workers to be balloted on strike action

02/06/2026 Law Society of Scotland increases pay for trainee solicitors for 2026/27

02/06/2026 Student loan inquiry begins as a third of people say university degree not worth it

02/06/2026 'Confused' AI strategy hurts firms and baffles staff

01/06/2026 Cramlington medicine packaging workers extend strike action

01/06/2026 Government welcomes Royal Mail pay deal

01/06/2026 UCU in ‘difficult position’ over 2 per cent pay offer response

01/06/2026 UK government divided over minimum wage increase in face of youth jobs crisis

01/06/2026 Reform bosses attempted ‘work from home crackdown’ in 'secret meetings'

01/06/2026 One in three parents has left a job due to ‘outdated’ lack of flexible working

01/06/2026 All unions 'firmly reject' pay offer

01/06/2026 Mutual retailer triples boss’s pay to £2.2m despite fall in profits

01/06/2026 Practice nurses call for Agenda for Change terms and conditions to ‘feel safer’

01/06/2026 Welsh accountants prioritise purpose over pay, new survey reveals

01/06/2026 Aberdeen airport faces disruption as workers vote on summer strikes

01/06/2026 Indefinite strike action to begin Monday 8 June over Goldsmiths lockout - IER

01/06/2026 Calls to prevent ‘two-tier workforce’ as Britain’s biggest railway operator nationalised

01/06/2026 London Tube strike threat returns as RMT digs in over 'four-day week' row - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

01/06/2026 Two in five UK employers have cut workplace benefits

01/06/2026 Rise in Neets is a ‘retirement crisis in slow motion’, pension experts warn

01/06/2026 Up to 111 jobs could be lost at University of Aberdeen in £10m savings plan

01/06/2026 More than 100 jobs at risk as Prestwick firm of 50 years enters administration

29/05/2026 Armed Forces pay award delayed but will be backdated

29/05/2026 Union demands Scottish Government to intervene in closure of Glasgow coffin factory

29/05/2026 Burberry boss could earn up to £12.2m under new bonus scheme as company rolls back climate goals

29/05/2026 Civil Service People Survey 2025 - Results Highlights

29/05/2026 First South Yorkshire Doncaster bus strikes over as drivers win pay parity with Sheffield

29/05/2026 Strikes to escalate at Cramlington-based medicine packaging firm Amcor

29/05/2026 Union membership rose by 192,000 to 6.6 million in 2025, TUC reveals

29/05/2026 Platform Housing Group reports -0.77% mean gender pay gap

29/05/2026 Somerset housing workers lobby council over outsourcing fears

29/05/2026 Union rejects local government pay offer

29/05/2026 Retailers' increased costs restricts hiring, says BRC in response to 'Young people and work’ report

29/05/2026 School strikes 'could spread across London', union warns

29/05/2026 Sheffield Hallam University staff strike over "savage" job cuts

29/05/2026 More than 100 jobs at risk as Scottish firm of 50 years enters administration

29/05/2026 Selfridges jobs at risk in head office restructure

28/05/2026 Jeld-Wen UK reports

28/05/2026 Progress made on pay equity

28/05/2026 Node view

28/05/2026 UK Gender Pay Gap Hits Self-Employed Women

28/05/2026 Flexible learning is an education in expanding career prospects in Scotland

28/05/2026 ‘Standing up for our children’: parents divided over London teachers’ strikes

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