Govt suggests auto-enrolment exemption for Euro workers

Employers should not have to auto-enrol workers who are subject to the EEA's labour laws into workplace pension schemes from October 2012, the government said. It would be too difficult for employers to find a scheme which complies with both UK and EEA law in order to be suitable for dual status workers, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said. The cost of auto-enrolling dual status workers would be "disproportionate" compared to the cost of enrolling non-dual status workers, according to the DWP. The DWP's two proposed options for an exemption both require employers to ide...