A recruitment agency and its managing director are to be prosecuted by The Pensions Regulator (TPR) on suspicion of trying to avoid providing staff with a workplace pension.
Hertfordshire-based SKL Professional Recruitment Agency and managing director Linus Kadzere are accused by the watchdog of wilfully failing to comply with their auto-enrolment (AE) duties under sections 45 and 46 of the Pensions Act 2008. Both defendants are also accused of falsely claiming they had enrolled 22 members of staff into a workplace pension scheme. Knowingly providing false information to TPR is an offence under section 80 of the Pensions Act 2004. The agency - which provides workers in the care sector - and Kadzere have been summonsed to appear in Brighton Magistrates' C...
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