Pensions regulator launches 89 AE non-compliance investigations

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The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has launched 89 investigations into possible non-compliance with auto-enrolment (AE) duties by large employers.

The investigations focused on employer readiness and "helping employers to become compliant", but did not require TPR to use its statutory powers to "compel" organisations to meet requirements. TPR executive director for AE Charles Counsell said that the report showed compliance was "near universal" among large employers. TPR's most recent monthly figures for AE show more than a million eligible jobholders have been auto-enrolled in the 12 months to June 2013, from 1,153 registered organisations. As many as 3.7 million workers in these companies were already members of a qualifying sc...

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