Pensions

New and updated

• Workplace pensions

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include a reference to Hampshire v The Board of the Pension Protection Fund, in which the ECJ considered the legality of the PPF compensation cap.

• Samuel Smith brewery fined over failure to report to Pensions Regulator

  Date:

  31 July 2018

  Type:

  News

  Brewery Samuel Smith and its chairman, 73-year-old Humphrey Smith, have been fined nearly £28,000 after admitting failure to supply information to The Pensions Regulator (TPR).

• Consultation on strengthening Pensions Regulator's powers to protect defined-benefit pensions

  Type:

  Consultations

  The Government consults on proposals to enhance the Pensions Regulator's powers to protect defined-benefit pension scheme members.

• XpertHR benefits and allowances survey 2018: Pension benefits

  Date:

  28 June 2018

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  We examine the types of pension schemes offered by employers, including: contribution rates and membership; the schemes used for pensions auto-enrolment; and systems of matched pension contributions.

• Pensions Regulator sets out plan to beef up operations

  Date:

  11 May 2018

  Type:

  News

  The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has announced plans that it said would enable it to become more effective when dealing organisations avoiding their pension obligations.

• Firms should contribute to self-employed pension auto-enrolment scheme

  Date:

  26 April 2018

  Type:

  News

  Organisations that use self-employed labour should pay a tax that would help fund a pension auto-enrolment scheme for freelance workers, a think tank has suggested.

• CDC pensions: Could going Dutch be the future?

  Date:

  24 April 2018

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Final salary pensions are now a rarity, with most employers opting for defined contribution schemes where the employee takes all the risk of poor stock market performance. But there may be another way. Stephanie Hawthorne investigates.

• Pensions auto-enrolment earnings thresholds rise in Northern Ireland

  Type:

  Legal timetable

  The earnings thresholds for pensions auto-enrolment increase on 6 April 2018.

• State pension

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to reflect the increases in rates for the single-tier pension and basic state pension, from 9 April 2018.

• Pensions auto-enrolment

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to reflect increases in the limits on qualifying earnings, effective from 6 April 2018.