Auto-enrolment

Only one in ten employers understands how to discharge their duties under auto-enrolment, Department for Work and Pensions research shows.

LCP has teamed up with Staffcare to take its auto-enrolment and flexible benefits propositions online.

The Trades Union Congress has called on the government to ban employers from passing on scheme consultancy charges to auto-enrolled staff.

Millions of savers will be vulnerable to conflicts of interest and a lack of oversight as they are auto-enrolled into contract-based pension schemes, FairPensions has warned.

The number of people saving through a workplace pension scheme has dropped 15% since 2007, with just a quarter of workers actively saving for retirement.

ISS UK has appointed Now:Pensions to provide an auto-enrolment scheme for its workforce from its staging date of January 2013.

The Royal Bank of Scotland has become the first UK company to auto-enrol its workforce under the government's requirements, with 40% of newly enrolled members choosing to opt out.

The number of people contacting The Pensions Advisory Service helpline has increased 8% this year as the organisation begins taking calls on auto-enrolment.

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Automatic enrolment will become the most expensive regulatory change imposed on businesses under the coalition government.