"What penalties are there if my employer doesn’t comply?"

If your employer doesn’t meet its duties, The Pensions Regulator will initially tell them to put things right.

The Pensions Regulator is responsible for ensuring compliance with the automatic enrolment legislation; where there’s a breach it’ll initially focus on education rather than imposing fines for non-compliance.

If your employer doesn’t meet its duties, The Pensions Regulator will initially just tell them to put things right. Any further failure may lead to the government fining your employer a lot of money. In the event of persistent and deliberate non-compliance, The Pensions Regulator can issue increasing penalty notices of up to £10,000 a day. Ultimately your employer could face criminal prosecution and even imprisonment.