Due to the expected high volume of employers who reached their staging date last autumn, the number of times TPR used its powers in the quarter for January to March 2018, makes up 20% of all the powers used since the start of automatic enrolment.
The enforcement action included issuing:
• nearly 20,000 Compliance Notices (CNs); • over 11,000 £400 Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs); and • over 2,500 Escalating Penalty Notices (EPNs).
This high number was due to a bulge of employer staging dates in autumn 2017, with their declaration of compliance due date falling five months later. Further details can be found in TPR’s latest quarterly compliance and enforcement bulletin.
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Blowing the whistle on the secret pension offenders 31 May 2018
Employers who deliberately put incorrect information on their declaration of compliance risk being found out in a number of ways, including from spot checks or whistleblowers.
Darren Ryder, the director of automatic enrolment at the Pensions Regulator, wrote recently in an article for Pensions Expert:
“They hide in plain sight, looking respectable to the outside world but denying their workers their legal rights.
The managers who tell staff that they will have their pay cut if they join a pension scheme.
The businesses that lie to their employees by falsely claiming that they have been automatically enrolled.
The companies that keep quiet about their duties in the hope that their workers will not notice that they have not been given the pensions they are entitled to.
It may only take a moment of bravery from one person to enable us to shine a light into the murky practices of an employer.
“But we can tackle this tiny group’s behaviour with the help of those closest to them – whistleblowers among their victims.”
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Chief Executive to move on from The Pensions Regulator 4 June 2018
The Board of The Pensions Regulator has confirmed that Chief Executive, Lesley Titcomb has decided to leave at the end of her four year contract in February 2019.
Ahead of her departure Ms Titcomb and the Executive team will continue to drive forward the significant programme of change she has been leading to make The Pensions Regulator clearer, quicker and tougher.
Mark Boyle, Chairman of the Board of The Pensions Regulator, said:
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