The BBC spoke to a number of former Morton’s employees who complained of missing pension payments \u2013 money they claim the collapsed company had deducted from their salary but had failed to pass on to Standard Life’s pension scheme.<\/p>\n
One worker sent us emails showing how he had been complaining about the issue as early as 2019.<\/p>\n
Another is Alan Love, 64, a former driver who served 32 years at Morton’s.<\/p>\n
He showed the BBC a statement provided by Standard Life that showed numerous gaps in payments made by Morton’s Rolls Limited. This includes a gap between December 2021 and January 2023.<\/p>\n
When asked where his pension payments had gone, he says. “It gets taken off my wages every week, so you tell me.<\/p>\n
“For the first couple of years we paid into that scheme, there was never any problem.<\/p>\n
“And then, all of a sudden, you’re behind. And then you’re going further behind.<\/p>\n
“And then you’re playing catch-up, and then mega catch-up.<\/p>\n
“Then the place goes bust and you are two years light on your pension… That isn’t right.”<\/p>\n
Alan Love tells the BBC he had contacted the Pensions Regulator (TPR) – a UK body that protects workplace pensions \u2013 about the issue before the company went bust.<\/p>\n
“It’s not about blowing the lid on anything,” he says. “It’s about getting those payments back, how do I get them back?<\/p>\n
“I told them, if this place goes into liquidation, I’ll be playing catch-up.<\/p>\n
“And as God is my judge, the only time I didn’t pay into the pension was the week before we went into liquidation.”<\/p>\n
A TPR spokesperson said: “We do not comment on individual pension schemes or employers unless appropriate to do so.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BBC spoke to a number of former Morton’s employees who complained of missing pension payments \u2013 money…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,111,139,69,244,245],"class_list":{"0":"post-168549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-personal-finance","14":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}