Under the leadership of Deputy Kristina Moore, the previous Council of Ministers had been developing policies to force businesses to offer workplace pensions to their staff.
However, the current social security minister, Deputy Lyndsay Feltham, changed course, saying her priority was to “support employers and workers in the transition to a living wage”.
Speaking in August last year, she said: “Planning for retirement and planning for pensions into the future is a very good thing.
“We know that not all employers are currently offering pension schemes, and I would encourage employers to do that.
“But I think it’s a very difficult thing for me… to have said to people that they need to put money aside for the future when they can’t afford to put bread on the table now.”
The minister said work to introduce a workplace pension scheme had been paused and her hope was it would restart within the next 12 months.
