Private sector firms which buy Remploy factories from the government will not have to honour the Fair Deal Policy, unions claim.
Over a third of employers said that they were unclear about their staging date for auto-enrolment, according to HR consultants Aon Hewitt.
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.