Your Essential Guide to Workplace Pensions

If you’re an employer you should hopefully by now have heard all about workplace pensions (auto enrolment) particularly as you have a legal requirement to provide, manage and contribute to a pension scheme for all eligible staff working within your business.

But don’t panic, it’s not as daunting as it seems as long as you act now and start preparing. 

A few tips:

·         Make sure you know your ‘Staging Date’ – this is the date on which auto enrolment goes live for your business.

·         Determine which employees in your practice are eligible to join the scheme.

·         Communicate early with your staff and start to tell them as much as you can about auto enrolment beforehand.

·         Put in place systems/processes ready for when auto enrolment takes place.

·         Get the right advice – a crucial factor in getting it right!

·         Put in place your plans as early as possible and benefit from cost savings.

If you want to find out more you can have a read of our FREE Workplace Pensions FAQs click here.

And it’s worth noting - auto enrolment is a legal requirement and the Pension Regulator is quick to issue £400 wake-up call fines for non-compliance – this is before big daily fines kick in for any employer who hasn’t got their scheme up and running by the required deadline (staging date).

Finally, getting good advice from the outset is critical.  We’ve already spoken to many business owners who have ended up short of time to enrol due to either attempting the DIY route or being under the impression their accountant or payroll provider was dealing with it.  Don’t make that mistake!

For a limited time you can reserve your enrolment place for FREE.  To be eligible for this limited time offer your Staging Date must be after October 2015. Space for 100 businesses only. Registration deadline is 30 June 2015 - register today

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