Have you become an Employer for the first time?

Taking on your first member of staff is a big moment for any employer

If you have recently become an employer for the first time, you will have workplace pension responsibilities from the moment your new staff started working for you.

You can use The Pension Regulator's simple online tool to understand what you have to do. By answering a few short questions about you and your staff, it will quickly determine what you need to do and when.

The online tool will take you through the process of setting up a workplace pension, and will point you towards everything you need to know. It’s an easy way of helping you get to grips with your workplace pension responsibilities.

Are you only employing staff for a short time?

If your staff are seasonal or temporary workers, you can use postponement to delay assessing them for a workplace pension.

Staff currently serving a probationary period still need to be put into a pension – you can apply postponement to delay assessing them, but otherwise, if they’re eligible, they need to be enrolled.

Postponement doesn’t change the date your workplace pension duties start from, it only delays when you have to check whether your staff need to be put into a pension. It can be used for a maximum period of three months, and you must write to your staff to tell them what’s happening.

Remember – if you employ at least one member of staff, your legal responsibilities begin the day they start working for you.

This advice was provided by The Pensions Regulator - read more about automatic enrolment and your workplace pension responsibilities at https://www.thepensionsregulat...

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The Pensions Regulator (TPR) is the public body that protects workplace pensions in the UK. They work with employers and those running pensions so that people can save safely for their retirement. They aim to be a strong, visible regulator so that they build people's confidence in pensions.

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