TPR begins spot checks in East Midlands to ensure AE compliance

Inspection teams will visit dozens of businesses in Nottingham, Derby and Leicester this month to check employers are meeting their automatic enrolment (AE) duties correctly. The move is part of a nationwide enforcement campaign that began in London last spring and has so far been carried out in Greater Manchester, Sheffield, Birmingham, South Wales, Edinburgh and Glasgow. According to TPR, the checks help the regulator to understand whether employers are facing unnecessary challenges they can be helped with. The campaign also reveals employers who have not taken the required steps to...