Monthly Archives: January 2014

Charges Consultation: The JEB official position

Following The Minister for Pensions recent statement regarding the response to the DWP Charges Consultation, and my posts on

Group Risk: The start of something new?

I was invited to a rather interesting meeting at the Association of British Insurers (ABI) last week.

The topic was one that may ultimately

Charges cap delay: Only 27,400 employers need be concerned…

As predicted, we had a statement on the DWP Charges Cap Consultation outcome yesterday.

As predicted, it did not provide the detail

The Politics of Pensions

Workplace pensions are becoming an increasingly high-profile media topic in the UK, and this new-found fame is starting to register

A delay but no certainty: The worst possible outcome?

I spent a large chunk of the weekend researching last week’s Financial Times story regarding the Auto-Enrolment (AE) pension scheme

Still in limbo then…

Many followers of this blog will have seen today’s media coverage of a suggested delay (of up to a year) by the Department

Managing sickness absence: 2014 and beyond…

Some of the key recommendations of the Sickness Absence Review commence in 2014. These changes may well herald a significant

Childcare costs and your employees: The facts…

Following on from my recent posts regarding the proposed changes to Childcare Vouchers, I thought the attached link to the Guardian’s

How did it get this confused?

I often wonder how Auto-Enrolment (AE) has become so confusing.

Only last week I printed a hard copy of the The Pensions Regulator’s

A happy new year (and some easy starters to 2014)…

A happy new year to all our followers. I hope you had a good break (despite the weather!).

I will start 2014’s blog-posts with