Auto-enrolment
Pensions are becoming ever more a part of employers’ benefits packages, now that pensions pensions auto-enrolment is being rolled out.
Employers must comply with the auto-enrolment requirements from their “staging date”, depending on their size.
Sharp rise in pension auto-enrolment fines
The last financial year has seen a sharp rise in the number of businesses fined by the Pensions Regulator for...
How to engage employees with pensions
Collectively employers spend billions on employee pensions each year, but how can they ensure staff understand the value of this...
Firms should contribute to self-employed pension auto-enrolment scheme
Organisations that use self-employed labour should pay a tax that would help fund a pension auto-enrolment scheme for freelance workers,...
Younger staff ‘don’t know how pensions work’
Employees, especially younger staff, do not understand their pensions and could be putting their financial wellbeing at risk. Ashleigh Wight...
Pensions Regulator in first auto-enrolment prosecution
The Pensions Regulator is bringing the first pensions auto-enrolment prosecution over allegations that a bus company and its managing director...
10 benefits to include in a flexible benefits scheme
Flexible benefits schemes can help to boost employee recruitment and retention by increasing the range of benefits available to employees....
Tory manifesto: National retraining, NI holidays and more gap reporting
Theresa May launched the Conservative Party’s 2017 election manifesto today, and for HR and employers there are no big surprises....
Gig economy inquiry by Work and Pensions Committee launched
The Work and Pensions Committee has announced an inquiry into the UK welfare system’s ability to adequately support the growing...
Is it time to sweeten up your pensions communications?
With young people prioritising other financial commitments over pensions, employers need to rethink how they communicate the benefits of saving...
Employing students: six tips for the new term
In university towns and cities around the country, students are settling in for the start of the academic year. As...
Pensions auto-enrolment enforcements increase by 300%
Action against companies failing to meet auto-enrolment requirements has increased by 306%, as smaller employers are required to sign their...
Football club fined almost £23,000 for missing pensions auto-enrolment
Swindon Town Football Club (STFC) has been named and shamed by the Pensions Regulator for failing to meet its staging...
Time for small employers to get ready for auto-enrolment
PROMOTED Between now and 2018, every employer in the UK will have to offer their staff a workplace pension scheme. They’ll have to set up a pension scheme that meets certain minimum standards
Eight pensions basics for HR professionals
The pensions auto-enrolment process may be well under way, but there are still a number of reforms due to take...
Pensions auto-enrolment: could an audit service prevent costly mistakes?
Many employers may have passed their pensions auto-enrolment staging date, but that does not mean that they are confident that...
