Under pensions auto-enrolment, UK employers are legally required to set up a workplace pension for all qualifying employees.
The government introduced auto-enrolment in 2012 to help more people save for their retirement. Since then around 10 million people have been auto-enrolled and are saving for their retirement with their employer’s help. Employers currently contribute a minimum of 3% and employees a minimum of 5% but there are calls for these amounts to increase.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has released figures suggesting that around 600,000 more people will be putting money...
To try to ensure that the country’s workforce saves adequately for retirement, the Government has introduced pensions auto-enrolment. Larger employers ...
Businesses with fewer than 50 workers will not have to auto-enrol their employees into workplace pension schemes before June 2015,...
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From October 2012, new legislation will require employers to automatically enrol their staff in pension schemes. Kate Upcraft covers some...
Every April a host of changes are made to employment legislation and 2012 is no exception. This year, important amendments...
More than one-sixth (17.5%) of employers in the private and voluntary sectors believe that the cost of pensions auto-enrolment will...
Pensions auto-enrolment will add “another layer of red tape and bureaucracy” for employers, breaking the Government’s promise to reduce the...
March is always one of the busiest months for employers, with the regular round of April employment law changes fast...
Employment lawyer Sarah Ozanne looks at the implications of the new pensions auto-enrolment system.The pensions auto-enrolment regime is scheduled to...
