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.
Many changes are planned for this year. John Charlton explores how they might influence employment practices.Employment law fans must be...
The Government today issued amendments to the timetable against which employers must enrol their staff in workplace pension schemes.The Government...
After a tough year of economic uncertainty, when keeping staff engaged while keeping an eye on budgets was at the...
Every year brings with it some important new employment legislation for the employer to negotiate. Whether related to unfair dismissal,...
Solicitor Sarah Henderson looks at the implications for employers of the imminent introduction of pension auto-enrolment.Q What are the plans...
Businesses with fewer than 50 employees will not have to auto-enrol staff into pension schemes until 2015, the Government has...
Reservations have commenced for delegate places at Jelf Employee Benefits’ November seminar, hosted at The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)....
Around one employee in three intends to opt out of the Government’s plans to automatically enrol them into company pension schemes...
Pensions provider Axa has written to retired members of its own final-salary pension scheme offering them higher immediate payouts in...
The introduction of the Agency Workers Regulations next month could threaten up to 500,000 temporary employment contracts, a report has found.One-third...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has defended its pensions auto-enrolment plans following a report that suggests firms will cut...
More than half (53%) of workers are “totally unaware” that they will be auto-enrolled into a pension plan as part...
Following the findings published by the Workplace Retirement Income Commission, chaired by Lord McFall, Steve Herbert, head of benefits strategy...
The Government’s consultation on state pension reforms has received broad support for the introduction of a single-tier system but groups...
Exempting new businesses from the upcoming pension reforms would remove “one of the biggest barriers” to job creation, the British...
