employer not paying into NEST

[levemir]

hi all, I keep getting letters from NEST to say my employer hasnt been paying their portion in.

 

employer just says they will sort it

 

but they close down on the 30th June

 

will NEST sort it?

 

thanks

[mantis shrimp]

Shouldn't you ask NEST that question? 

 

In what way is this employer "closing down"? 

[stu007]

Hi

 

IMO you need to contact NEST since your Employer must be signed up with them and ask explain to them that further to their letter you have been chasing your Employer to pay the outstanding amounts and they have stated they are going to sort this and also inform them that they are closing down on 30th June 2022.

 

Also ask your Employer for a letter confirming the outstanding NEST Payments will be paid by a certain date to NEST.

 

 

[levemir]

company is closing down on the 30th june

 

deductions have come out of my wage slip [and wages] but they havent been paid to nest since August 2021.

 

I have contacted nest, they have just said to pass enquiry onto The Pensions Regulator. And thats as far as I have got.

[mantis shrimp]

This here closing down: do you know why?

[levemir]

hi, the company has been struggling, its a small dairy firm. They have sold up to a bigger dairy firm [most of us have kept our jobs] otherwise it would have gone out of business.

[mantis shrimp]

Do you know whether what has been sold is the company or the business which it operates? Have you been told whether you will have a new employer?

[honeybee13]

The Pensions Regulator can get things done, although it may take time to sort this.

 

Broadly, I would expect a company buying your current employer to take over pension commitments. Mergers and acquisitions are complicated though and I don't know a huge amount about corporate pensions.

 

Has TUPE been mentioned to staff, are you being transferred under that?

 

HB

[mantis shrimp]

I'm thinking of TUPE, hb. but of course if it the company that has been sold, the OP's claim remains against the company under its new owners.  If, however, what has been sold is not the company but its business, then we need to look at TUPE.

 

Hopefully the OP will be able to answer my question, so we can give properly focussed advice.

[honeybee13]

This is from the Pensions Regulator on deductions that haven't been passed to NEST.

 

Report missing payments to your workplace pension

WWW.THEPENSIONSREGULATOR.GOV.UK

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Tell us if you are concerned that your employer has not paid money into your workplace pension scheme or regularly makes late payments.

 

HB