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The country's largest supermarket chains will become the first employers to auto-enrol their workforces this autumn.

The wider significance of the Danks v Qinetiq case

Sponsoring employers could be given unilateral powers to amend defined benefit scheme rules without trustee consent to offset a £4.2bn spike in National Insurance costs.

Universities Superannuation Scheme employer costs will stay fixed at current levels to help meet a £2.9bn shortfall in the scheme following its latest triennial valuation.

QinetiQ has agreed a funding plan with trustees to tackle its £75m pension deficit after a High Court ruling cleared the way for it to switch to Consumer Prices Index-linking.

British Airways pensioners have triggered a second members' meeting after confirmation the scheme would again pay CPI increases this year.

Every little helps. Or so goes the advertising slogan of Britain's largest supermarket, Tesco.

CPI annual inflation fell to 3.4% in February, down from 3.6% in January, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Unions have lost their appeal against the judicial review that backed the government's decision to use the Consumer Prices Index for uprating public sector pensions.

Jim Singer launched the highly popular e-petition urging the government to reverse its switch to CPI for pension and benefits indexation. It attracted 110,000 supporters and triggered a parliamentary debate, which he watched at the House of Commons. He...