RETIREMENT SAVINGS ACCOUNT

RETIREMENT SAVINGS ACCOUNT: OBLIGATION OF AN EMPLOYER TOWARDS AN EMPLOYEE

It might interest you to know that under Nigerian law, if you are an employee that works in an organization that has a minimum of five persons, the employer is under obligation to open a retirement savings account for all the employees.

 

It doesn’t matter that the employee, who is expected to approach a pension fund administrator to open a retirement savings account, actually opens the retirement savings account. Even in the absence of that, it is obligatory on the employer to open a nominal retirement savings account into which the employer’s contribution to the contributory pension scheme would be remitted.
Failure to do the above, would make the employer penalized for failing to remit the employer’s share of the contributory pension funds. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5g59E9rJuS/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

 


A lot of employers actually do deduct the employee’s share of the pension contribution scheme. However, they fail to remit the funds into the appropriate retirement savings account and we’ve had several experiences regarding that.

 

Recently, one of my partner’s friend reached out to her that when she noticed that her employers were not remitting her pension contribution to the account that they should remit it into, she was fired for having the boldness to challenge them, but of course does it mean that the lady is without help? No, she can decide to take it up with her employers, forward that up with the appropriate government agency and then she can even take them to court if they do not mend their ways as expected.

 

 

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