Recruitment agency pleads guilty to illegally opting staff out of pensions

Owners and directors Phil Tong and Adam Hinkley encouraged five other senior staff members to impersonate temporary workers in order to avoid making employee contributions. Financial controller Hannah Armson, HR and compliance officer Lisa Neal, and branch managers Martin West, Robert Tomlinson and Andrew Thorpe worked together to use NEST's online system to opt workers out of the auto-enrolment (AE) scheme. The 67 workers who were opted out of the scheme against their will or without their knowledge have since been opted back into NEST by the company. Workchain, which was previous...