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More employers fined for failing on automatic enrolment

Open-access content Friday 5th August 2016 — updated 5.50pm, Wednesday 29th April 2020

An increased number of penalties have been issued to employers who do not comply with automatic enrolment, The Pension Regulator has said. It urged small and micro employers to engage early with automatic enrolment to avoid the risk of a fine.

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The latest quarterly compliance and enforcement bulletin includes as examples details of two employers who were fined £400 when they did not comply with their duties after failing to understand how the law affected them.

These cases were a garage owner who failed to complete a declaration of compliance as they thought a staff member had done it, and a travel agent with no staff eligible for automatic enrolment, but who failed to complete their declaration of compliance after wrongly assuming the law did not apply to them.

Executive director for automatic enrolment Charles Counsell said: "While the vast majority of employers are complying with the law, some small employers are still risking fines by failing to understand how it affects them." He urged employers to check the regulator's website and to take time to read correspondence.

However, the report recorded that "compliance rates remain very high", and the regulation had used its powers only 4,489 times during the last quarter, though this was an increase from the 4,161 uses in the previous three months.

"We are very encouraged to see that thousands of small and micro employers are putting their staff into a pension, and that over six million people have now been able to start saving for their retirement, many for the first time," the report stated.

This article appeared in our August 2016 issue of The Actuary.
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