THOUSANDS of low-paid workers are being denied tax relief on their pensions because of a loophole in regulations, the TUC Congress will hear this weekend.
Employers are now obliged to auto-enrol their employees in a workplace pension scheme, with their contributions “topped up” by the government, usually through the reimbursement of tax.
But this reimbursement is only made available to workers earning under the income tax threshold if their company operates a “relief at source” pension plan.
A sharp rise in public-sector investment is required to kick-start the economy, argues MICHAEL BURKE
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP