Nearly one million hospitality staff face retirement poverty as study reveals AE blackspots

Kim Kaveh
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Six in ten hospitality workers are slipping through the net of automatic enrolment (AE), a Trades Union Congress (TUC) analysis has found.

This amounted to 908,000 of the sector's workforce not saving into a workplace pension, based on Office for National Statistics (ONS) data. The TUC also found 93,000 of agriculture employees wer...

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