TPR is prosecuting national recruitment firm Workchain Ltd, as well as its directors and some of its senior staff on the suspicion that they illegally opted employees out of their pension scheme.
Workchain Ltd, formerly known as Smart Recruitment UK Ltd, is accused of logging into its workplace pension scheme’s online system using employees’ personal details, to terminate their membership of the scheme. TPR says this is contrary to the terms of use of the system, which requires employees to opt out themselves.
Senior managers and directors have been charged with unauthorised access to a computer programme, contrary to section 1(1) of the Computer Misuse Act 1990.
Directors Phil Tong, 40 and Adam Hinkley, 39, both from Derbyshire are both being prosecuted, along with five other senior staff aged between 31 and 38 years.
This is the first time that TPR has launched prosecutions for this offence.
The defendants have been summoned to appear at Derby Magistrates’ Court on 7 June 2018.