The Pensions Regulator is to prosecute recruitment company Workchain Ltd and seven of its directors and staff for unauthorised access to a computer programme. They are accused of logging into the company pension scheme using employees' details to opt them out of the scheme.
The regulator said it will prosecute the national recruitment firm, its directors and some of its senior staff on the suspicion that they illegally opted employees out of their pension scheme.
The defendants have been summonsed to appear at Derby Magistrates’ Court on June 7.
This is the first time that the regulator has launched prosecutions for unauthorised access to a computer programme. A conviction for computer misuse carries a maximum sentence of six months’ imprisonment and/or an unlimited fine in a magistrates’ court.
