Fast food giant McDonalds will use the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) for 35,000 hourly-paid workers as part of a two-tier auto-enrolment solution.

Major household names like McDonalds, Travelodge, the BBC and BT will use the National Employment Savings Trust for auto-enrolment.

A potential gap looms between employee and employer expectations of when workers will retire, an Aegon report has warned.

BT will use a combination of its existing Standard Life defined contribution (DC) scheme and the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) for auto-enrolment.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has given an impassioned defence of the government's preferred pot follows member approach to eradicating small pots.

Pension providers who auto-enrol workers into "dodgy old" schemes will be named and shamed by the pensions minister.

The coalition needs the support of more than "two of its closest pals" to divert the impact of Solvency II, Lord Mandelson has warned.

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Sainsbury's will use its existing Legal & General (L&G) schemes for auto-enrolment, as it becomes one of the first companies to undertake the reform this Monday.

Two-thirds of employers are unaware members pay any charges in their defined contribution schemes, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) research reveals.