Two directors at recruitment agency Workchain have been given suspended jail sentences over a scam that saw them impersonating their temporary workers to opt them out of their workplace pension program, reports BBC News. In June 2018, it was reported that Workchain, along with its owners and director Phil Tong and Adam Hinkley and a further five staff members pleaded guilty at the Derby Magistrates’ Court of logging in to the company’s online pension system and using employees’ personal details and then terminating temporary employees’ workplace pension membership so they can save money on employer pension contributions. Derby Crown Court heard that while £3,000 was not paid, the potential was for £35,000 to £50,000 to have been dodged. Tong and Hinkley received four month prison terms suspended for two years. They were also ordered to compete 200 hours community service and must pay costs of £11,250 each. Workchain was also fined £200,000. At an earlier hearing, five further staff members of Workchain were sentenced and ordered to pay costs.