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Regulator publishes names of non-compliant employers

30 May 2017
Issue: 4601 / Categories: News , Admin

Employers that have been taken to court for failing to pay fines for workplace pension non-compliance are being named on a new list in The Pensions Regulator’s Auto-enrolment Compliance and Enforcement Quarterly Bulletin.

In each case the employer had been issued an escalating penalty notice (EPN) for non-compliance but did not pay it.

The regulator has also published the details of employers that continue to ignore their auto-enrolment obligations despite having been issued with a penalty and paid it.

Employers that have been taken to court for failing to pay fines for workplace pension non-compliance are being named on a new list in The Pensions Regulator’s Auto-enrolment Compliance and Enforcement Quarterly Bulletin.

In each case the employer had been issued an escalating penalty notice (EPN) for non-compliance but did not pay it.

The regulator has also published the details of employers that continue to ignore their auto-enrolment obligations despite having been issued with a penalty and paid it.

The bulletin revealed a large increase in inspections of business premises carried out by the regulator. Fully 224 inspections were carried out in the quarter compared with 57 in the whole of 2016.

It issued more than 4 673 fixed penalty notices (FPNs) of £400 for auto-enrolment non-compliance to employers in the first three months of 2017 up from 2 919 the previous quarter. Some 1 043 EPNs were issued...

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