Darren Ryder
Five stories you may have missed this week
This week’s top stories include Punter Southall Aspire exiting the master trust market and Deloitte launching a consultation in plans to slash employer contributions for up to 12 months.
TPR carries out spot checks on large employers
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) is carrying out spot checks on the UK’s largest employers to protect savers and ensure staff continue to receive the pensions they are due.
Former accountant fined for misleading TPR over workplace pension duties
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has fined a former accountant £4,987 after he failed to enrol staff into a workplace pension scheme.
Recruitment agency and managing director fined £10,890 for avoiding workplace pension
A Hertfordshire-based recruitment agency and its managing director have been ordered to pay £10,890 after misleading The Pensions Regulator (TPR) over its workplace pension arrangements.
Children's nursery director fined over misleading TPR on AE failures
A Merseyside pre-school nursery and its director have been ordered to pay £8,200 after admitting failing to enrol members of staff into a workplace pension scheme.
Children's nursery director admits to misleading TPR
The director of a Merseyside nursery has admitted to failing to comply with automatic enrolment (AE) responsibilities after setting up a pension scheme that was left empty.
Recruitment agency admits misleading TPR and avoiding AE duties
A recruitment agency and its managing director have pleaded guilty to misleading The Pensions Regulator (TPR) by falsely claiming staff had been put into a workplace pension.
Auto-enrolment closing the pensions gender gap, TPR reveals
Automatic enrolment (AE) has helped level the number of women saving into a workplace pension with the number of men, The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has said.
TPR launches probe into 'shape-shifting employers' dodging AE duties
Companies which have tried to dodge their pension duties by changing their identities are being "hunted" by The Pensions Regulator (TPR) in a crackdown on non-compliance with auto-enrolment (AE).
TPR takes action against employer prioritising dividends and reveals 15% increase in use of AE powers
The Pensions Regulator has set how it has used its powers over the first three months of the year in a bid to better protect scheme members.
Recruitment agency ordered to pay £280,000: largest fine and first custodial sentences following TPR prosecution
Recruitment agency Workchain has been hit with a £280,000 fine after posing as temporary staff and illegally opting them out of their workplace pension scheme.
TPR and PLSA reveal AE contribution hike has had minimal impact on opt-outs
The increase in minimum auto-enrolment (AE) contributions has had little impact on opt-out rates - with cessations after April increasing by less than two percentage points, data from The Pensions Regulator (TPR) shows.
Accountant pleads guilty to lying to TPR about meeting AE duties
Accountant Hashmukh Shah has pleaded guilty to deliberately providing false information to The Pensions Regulator (TPR) when stating a pension scheme had been set up for staff of a London-based restaurant.
Recruitment agency pleads guilty to illegally opting staff out of pensions
Senior staff at national recruitment agency Workchain have pleaded guilty to illegally opting temporary staff out of their workplace pension scheme, leading to The Pensions Regulator's (TPR) first criminal conviction under this offence.
Healthcare company fined £20,000 after misleading TPR about pensions
Crest Healthcare and its managing director Sheila Aluko have admitted to misleading The Pensions Regulator (TPR) about providing staff with a workplace pension.
TPR seeks forced entry powers to seize business assets for unpaid fines
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has warned it will seize assets from employers who fail to pay fines relating to their schemes in a further strengthening of its enforcement activity.
Healthcare company 'misled TPR' about complying with AE duties
Crest Healthcare and its managing director have pleaded guilty to misleading The Pensions Regulator (TPR) about enrolling employees into a workplace pension.
TPR fines bus company and its managing director £60,000 for failing to meet AE requirements
A bus company and its managing director have been fined more than £60,000 after they admitted trying to avoid providing its employees with a workplace pension.
TPR begins spot checks in East Midlands to ensure AE compliance
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has begun carrying out spot checks across the East Midlands to make sure employers are complying with their pension duties.
TPR fines 2020 Trustees £4,000 for chair statement failures
Professional trustee firm 2020 Trustees was fined £4,000 for failing to produce two chair's statements between July and September 2017, The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has revealed.
TPR interventions soar 468% in AE compliance cases
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) used its formal powers 50,068 times in just 12 months to ensure high levels of compliance with the auto-enrolment regime.
TPR warns over fake AE exemption certificates
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has warned employers to avoid becoming victim to fake auto-enrolment (AE) certificates after it revealed it had launched an investigation.
TPR names Darren Ryder as acting director of AE
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has appointed Darren Ryder to temporarily take over as director of auto-enrolment (AE) when the current director Charles Counsell leaves next month.
