Wales Business Stephen Farrell

Newport County have been named among a series of companies fined for failure to adhere to pension rules.

The club has been fined £4,500 by The Pensions Regulator (TPR) after it found they had failed to meet their automatic enrolment responsibilities.

They were issued with an escalating penalty notice (EPN) by TPR for non-compliance. This has since been paid, however the regulator said County, together with other across the UK, "continue to be non-compliant with their workplace pension duties".

Charles Counsell, TPR's executive director of automatic enrolment, said: "Automatic enrolment is not an option, it is the law. Allowing some employers to get away with non-compliance is not fair on the employees who are denied the workplace pensions they are entitled to and is not fair on the vast majority of businesses who have taken the time to meet their responsibilities.

"To date we have only had to bring court proceedings against a tiny proportion of employers, but every court case is one too many – and one that employers can easily avoid by becoming compliant."

The regulator published its list of companies across the UK that were failing to meet their automatic enrolment responsibilities yesterday (11 May 2017).