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It was bound to happen sooner or later…a well known company getting into hot water for failings around automatic enrolment. The Pension Regulator has had to wrap the knuckles of a big firm to get it to comply. Smaller firms should note that although they prefer the carrot, the

Less than 250 employees More than 250 empoyees The date that an employer will be required to comply with the workplace pension reform is called the “Staging Date”.  This date is determined by the size of the employer’s PAYE scheme.  The staging date is the latest that

If you would like to understand in more detail how the pension reforms will affect you as an employer, the register to attend our informative breakfast seminar on Thursday 18th October 2012. Click here for more details or to register… The staging date is the

The timetable of staging dates is shown below. You will need the last two digits of the employers’ PAYE code Employer by PAYE scheme size or other description Staging date 160-249   1 April 2014 90-159 1

This week the Government have launched a £3.5million advertising campaign in attempt to get the auto-enrolment message across to businesses. Earlier campaigns seem to have failed to reach the intended audience of around 1.3 million employers, with a large proportion of business owners still failing to find out about or

Even if you only employ one other person, then the huge changes to the workplace pension landscape that start rolling out this year will have an effect on your business over the next few years. A range of new responsibilities will fall on employers and will have significant

The long awaited workplace pension reform law came into effect on 1st July 2012. Did you notice a difference? This new legislation marks the start of the new duties for employers which will (eventually) see them automatically enrol every single one of their eligible jobholders into a work place

In October 2018 all business will be automatically contributing 3% of their eligible jobholders qualifying earnings into a workplace pension. In addition eligible employees will be paying 5% of their own salary into a workplace pension. Non-eligible jobholders can elect to opt in to auto-enrolment, whilst entitled workers can

State pensions are under pressure and they are creaking under the strain. The new coalition government has begun to address the problem but is it too little, too late? In 1948, when the state pension was introduced, the average life expectancy of a man was a little over 66