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HR Directors are leading one of the most significant changes in UK pension history. These unprecedented reforms will result in lifechanging circumstances for almost every person in employment by the end of 2014. Auto-enrolment, as the name implies, is the automatic enrolment of workers in a pension scheme approved by the Pensions Regulator. 
 
The implementation of auto-enrolment is happening in stages based on company size. Companies employing 120,000 staff or mor

Building New Boards - How Moon Consulting Recruits Executive Teams
 
It is a sophisticated task to source the right new senior director for a company, but the difficulty increases many fold when a client needs to find multiple executives for the same board. Vanessa Moon of Moon Consulting has been involved in 3 high profile team builds for major clients in the UK in the past 18 months, two in the South West and one in London.
 
In all of these cases, Vanessa was tasked with hir

Our friends at TLT Solicitors have provided some advice on contractual restrictions post employment:
Some suggest that employment figures held up better than feared during the recession of 2008/09.  Many will know this was achieved by reducing salaries, cutting other benefits and taking steps to reduce the cost of employment even where jobs were maintained.  At the time a relief to those who might otherwise have been redundant, but with further nil rate salary reviews memories fade.&n

Our friends at TLT Solicitors have provided a useful overview of the Institute of Directors paper entitled "Corporate Governance Guidance and Principles for Unlisted Companies" (The Guidance). It is intended as an easy to follow set of principles that can be applied by directors of private companies to improve corporate governance.
 
The Guidance largely tracks the UK Corporate Governance Code which most listed companies appearing in the FTSE indices are required to apply. However it h