October 18, 2016
There are several reasons why auto enrolment duties might not apply to you. 1) Your company is made up of only directors who don’t want to join a workplace pension scheme. 2) Your employees are under 22-years of age or … Continue reading
October 11, 2016
Auto enrolment is becoming a reality for small business owners, but there’s still a lot of confusion around which companies need to have a pension in place. This is especially true among employers where the staff is made up of … Continue reading
October 6, 2016
Employees taking parental leave – that’s maternity leave, paternity leave, adoption leave or shared parental leave, continue to build up pension benefits while on leave. Any sort of parental leave will form part of qualifying earnings for workplace pension contributions. … Continue reading
August 3, 2016
You don’t need to enrol every employee into your workplace pension scheme. Only eligible employees have to be enrolled. But as part of your duties you’ll have to write to the staff who aren’t eligible for automatic enrolment and tell … Continue reading
August 3, 2016
Employees who’ve been automatically enrolled or have opted in to your workplace pension scheme have the right to opt out. The decision to opt out must be freely taken by employees – ie you cannot ask them to opt out. … Continue reading
August 2, 2016
The responsibility of choosing a suitable workplace pension is one that weighs heavily on the minds of many a small business owner. After all, most employers running their own business are experts in their field of business and not in … Continue reading
August 2, 2016
Every employer has to comply with workplace pension duties and there are costs involved. Even if you don’t have to enrol any eligible staff you’ll need to spend time, if not money, on making sure you stay within the law. … Continue reading
August 2, 2016
When an employee contributes to a pension scheme they get a contribution from the Government in the form of tax relief. There are two ways that tax relief is applied; at source or through net pay. Net pay arrangement With … Continue reading
July 19, 2016
Because we spend a lot of time reading The Pensions Regulator (TPR) guidance on auto enrolment and answering our client’s queries and know how tricky it can be to find the right bit of information when you need it, we’ve … Continue reading
July 18, 2016
Every employer has to comply with workplace pension duties and there are costs involved. Even if you don’t have to enrol any eligible staff you’ll need to spend time, if not money, on making sure you stay within the law. … Continue reading
