Multinational companies are synchronising their retirement provision across the globe and centralising their benefit structures, a Punter Southall International survey reveals.
Just over half of workers are unaware that their employer would soon auto-enrol them in a pension scheme, according to Hymans Robertson research.
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Mercer Employee Benefits is to defend itself at the High Court later this year after a hotel group filed a £250,000 claim for breach of contract.
A recent ruling classing early retirement benefits as the responsibility of the acquiring company in an asset deal will add "cost and uncertainty" to mergers and acquisitions, Mercer says.
Unions have reached an agreement with ministers over the reform of the local government pension scheme.
One in four schemes offered by employers are either definitely not auto-enrolment compliant or have not yet been tested for compliance, Capita Hartshead says.
The Rail Maritime and Train union will ballot its members for industrial action over the continuing dispute concerning the East Midlands Trains section of the Railways Pension Scheme.
Civil servant scheme members of Prospect have voted by four to one to accept the government's reform package for the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme after a year of negotiations.