News: Firms not obliged to enroll all eligible overseas staff

• Published in: Pensions week
• Main Author: Thomas, Charlie
• Format: Magazine Article
• Language: English
• Published: London The Financial Times Limited 17.10.2011
• Subjects: Bills; Employee benefits; Enrollments; Foreign labor; Pension plans; Pensions; United Kingdom > UK

Employers can breathe a sigh of relief following a clause in the pensions bill allowing them to exclude some overseas workers from auto-enrollment. Interested stakeholders have issued concerns over whether employers would be forced to auto-enroll staff who lived overseas but worked in the UK.