A Birmingham-based healthcare company and its managing director have pleaded guilty to misleading the Pensions Regulator about enrolling staff into a workplace pension, after a whistleblower raised the alarm.
Crest Healthcare and managing director Sheila Aluko admitted recklessly providing false or misleading information to the regulator, and wilfully failing to comply with auto-enrolment duties, the regulator has said.
Aluko had told the regulator that employees had been informed about the pension scheme and that 25 of them had been enrolled, even though this was not the case and no contributions had been paid.
The employer later started to deduct pension contributions from the wages of some workers but did not pay them into a pension scheme for more than eight months.
