Union demands more auto-enrolment cover for maritime workers

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A maritime union has called on the government to broaden auto-enrolment legislation to include seafarers and offshore workers who are excluded from the law because they are not "ordinarily resident" in the UK.

Nautilus - representing 24,000 maritime professionals - welcomed moves by pensions minister Steve Webb to include sea workers in auto-enrolment requirements but said the Pensions Act 2008 needed fu...

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