Auto-enrolment
From 1 October 2012 (subject to the employer's own staging date), all 'workers' must be auto-enrolled into a qualifying pension scheme without any active decision on their part to join the qualifying pension scheme.
The Berkshire Pension Fund has produced an Auto-enrolment guide for employers which can be downloaded below:
Auto-enrolment and the LGPS |
A document summarising the employer's role in auto-enrolment in relation to the Local Governemnt Pension Scheme |
Further guidance has also been produced by Barnett Waddingham and The Pensions Advisory Service and these are presented below:
Barnett Waddingham Information Sheets |
| Auto-Enrolment and Workplace Pension Reform - Information Sheet 1
(702.08 KB, .pdf) |
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Auto-Enrolment and Workplace Pension Reform - Information Sheet 3 (239.63 KB, .pdf) |
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Introduction to Workplace Pension Changes |
Workplace Pensions Law is changing - A brief overview about the new duties for employers |
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Auto-enrolment staging date - interactive tool - Find out your staging date via the Pensions Regulator interactive tool.
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Staging Dates
Each employer will be given a date from when they will have to provide their employees with a qualifying pension scheme. This is known as the staging date
• The first staging dates will be in October 2012 and will continue through to 2016;
• Each employers staging date will be broadly based on the number of people they employ in their PAYE scheme;
• Employers with the largest number of employees will have the earliest staging dates. Employers with fewer workers will have later staging dates from 2014;
• All employers will be contacted by The Pensions Regulator between 6 and 12 months before their staging date.
The full list of staging dates can be downloaded here.
