Shoe company left footing £42,000 AE bill from TPR

The shoe firm was initially issued with a £400 fixed penalty notice from The Pensions Regulator (TPR) after it failed to comply with the law on the automatic enrolment of its staff into a workplace pension scheme. This required checking whether its staff qualified to be put into a workplace pension scheme and confirming to TPR that it had done so. Johnsons paid the £400 fine but still did not become compliant, TPR said in statement, adding: "Despite repeated reminders - and being warned it would face a new fine that would increase by £2,500 per day if it did not meet its responsibilit...