Employers, employment and pensions
When a good employee goes bad… is their pension at risk?
15 May 2017 - Helen Powell
The Pensions Ombudsman has recently had to consider the case of a convicted fraudster, Mr A, who had embezzled around £500,000 from his former employer, but had been made redundant in a separate exercise before his fraud was discovered. Mr A had been made bankrupt on the employer’s petition, but this did not give the › Read More
Financial Support Directions: issues for banks and lenders
25 January 2017 - Jason Shaw
With the high profile collapse of BHS and two subsequent Parliamentary inquiries, the role and powers of the Pensions Regulator have come under close scrutiny since the second half of 2016. This spring, the government is planning to issue a discussion paper on various issues related to defined benefit pension schemes; it is perhaps no › Read More
Intra-group secondments and pension liabilities
06 July 2016 - Däna Burstow
Intra-group secondment arrangements could give rise to a liability to contribute to a deficit in a defined benefit pension scheme – that’s the (possibly surprising) conclusion of a recent Court of Appeal ruling. › Read More