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.
Pensions Regulator hunts ‘shape-shifting’ businesses
An unspecified number of businesses have attempted to evade their pension duties to employees by altering their identities, The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has found.
Why auto-enrolment should always be on HR’s to do list
Pensions auto-enrolment might not be the most exciting HR topic but, as Angela Sharma explains, it should never be far from the top of any HR list of things to do.
Pensions auto-enrolment: we’re at the end of the beginning
Why employers' role in helping staff to save for their retirement through the auto-enrolment scheme is far from over
April 2019 employment law changes: Seven things for HR to do
Every April, HR professionals are faced with a raft of amended employment laws and deadlines for their organisation to meet....
Rise in auto-enrolment pension deductions will bite take-home pay
With auto-enrolment pension contributions set to rise from April, millions of UK employees will experience a decrease in their take-home...
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...
