UK. Pensions regulator seeks first criminal charges for dodging auto-enrolment
The Pensions Regulator has for the first time charged an employer for deliberately failing to provide a workplace pension to its staff.
Bus company Stotts Tours and its managing director Alan Stott pleaded guilty to 16 offences of failing to comply with the law on workplace pensions, TPR says.
The regulator found 36 staff were not provided with a workplace pension and didn’t get paid contributions from June 2015 onwards. TPR director of automatic enrolment Darren Ryder says: “Dozens of staff at the company were entitled to workplace pensions but were denied them because their employer deliberately failed to set them up.
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