Just one in three private sector workers in an occupational pension

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Less than half of all full-time workers are now saving into a workplace pension, according to the Office for National Statistics.

In the latest chapters of the organisation's Pension Trends Survey to be updated, analysts estimated just 47% of female workers and 48% of male workers were scheme members in 2011. The membershi...

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