Pensions

New and updated

• Workplace pensions

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to reflect that the Government has published its response to its consultation on collective defined-contribution pension schemes.

• Consultation on collective defined-contribution (CDC) pension schemes

  Type:

  Consultations

  Updated to include a reference to the Government's response to the consultation.

• When does an employer have to re-enrol workers who have opted out after auto-enrolment into a pension scheme?

  Type:

  FAQs

• Increase in minimum contribution level for pensions auto-enrolment takes effect

  Type:

  Legal timetable

  Employer and employee contributions into pensions auto-enrolment schemes increase.

• Rise in auto-enrolment pension deductions will bite take-home pay

  Date:

  19 February 2019

  Type:

  News

  With auto-enrolment pension contributions set to rise from April, millions of UK employees will experience a decrease in their take-home pay.

• Bosses who mishandle workers' pensions could face jail

  Date:

  13 February 2019

  Type:

  News

  Company directors who handle employees' pension funds with a devil-may-care attitude could face up to seven years in prison or hefty fines under plans put forward by the Department for Work and Pensions.

• Age discrimination: Public-sector pension changes discriminated against younger judges and firefighters

  Date:

  15 January 2019

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice and another v McCloud and others; Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Welsh Ministers and others v Sargeant and others, the Court of Appeal held that the Government's view that "it felt right" to protect older workers with transitional provisions when making changes to pensions for judges and firefighters was insufficient to defend direct age discrimination claims.

• Sharp rise in pension auto-enrolment fines

  Date:

  7 January 2019

  Type:

  News

  The last financial year has seen a sharp rise in the number of businesses fined by the Pensions Regulator for pension auto-enrolment errors, a freedom of information request has shown.

• BT loses bid to change pension calculation method

  Date:

  7 December 2018

  Type:

  News

  BT has lost an appeal to change the method it uses to calculate pension increases, which would have affected around 80,000 current and former staff.

• Pensions auto-enrolment

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include the proposed auto-enrolment earnings thresholds for 2019/20.