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Is her payroll department an external company? If so then the payroll company is correct and will have permitted contacts. In that case her first contact should be her line manager or human resources if the company have on.
Assuming it's a company pension scheme it's not strictly covered by freedom of information etc as she is perfectly entitled to ask her line manager or HR for any information she needs.. Once she asks her manager he has no right to refuse and is obliged to find the information. It should be no big deal really and ultimately if she has any problems in gaining access it would be addressed as a work placed grievance rather than a complaint to the payroll - again this is more applicable if like 99.9% of pension scheme it's outsourced.
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Regarding maternity pay - She wouldn't have to let her manager know as this would be laid out in her contract of employment which legally she should have a copy of. If not you would just ask for a copy without giving any more details than you wished to.
On the pension side, her manager or HR would just be acting as a middle-man like a postman delivering a letter so to speak.
If a woman knows she's pregnant then why wouldn't she want to tell their employer? She actually have more rights under employment law legislation. For example, if an employer was thinking about making some redundancies they'd be reluctant to fire a pregnant woman as she'll take them to a tribunal claiming unfair dismissal. Employers can’t change a pregnant employee’s contract terms and conditions without agreement - if they do they are in breach of contract.
Pregnant employees have four key rights: paid time off for antenatal care, maternity leave, maternity pay and protection against unfair treatment, discrimination or dismissal.
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