The Department for Work and Pensions has rejected calls for a "compliance window" for age discrimination regulations for pension schemes.
Final regulations on how the new age discrimination rules will affect pension schemes were published on 10 November, leaving employers and scheme trustees just three weeks to meet the 1 December deadline. As a result, although the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) welcomed the amendments to the regulations, it urged the government to give employers more time to implement the rules. As it pointed out the government itself, under the Cabinet Office’s better regulation guidelines, suggests companies should have a minimum of 12 weeks to comply with new regulations. However on Friday...
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