Waitlist request for : Understanding Auto Enrolment and other Employer Duties Training

At the Understanding workshops, delegates have the benefit of an experienced tutor and a detailed workbook they can take away for future reference.  Auto enrolment is a relatively new requirement, as prescribed by the Pensions Act 2008. Phased in over the coming years, eligible employees will be automatically enrolled into a qualifying pension scheme without any active involvement from the employee. There are several duties that an employer has including registration, identifying types of employee, communication and auto-enrolment itself.

The Workshops cover:

Auto-Enrolment

• Automatic enrolment rules for Defined Benefit Schemes and how these interact with the LGPS
• The automatic enrolment timetable (i.e. the staging dates for employers)
• How to determine an employer?s staging date
• Employer?s option to bring forward their staging date
• Employer?s option to use the transitional period to delay automatic enrolment for existing employees
• Use of a 3 month ?waiting period? for those with contracts of employment of less than 3 months
• Information to be given by the employer to eligible jobholders, non-eligible jobholders and workers and the associated timescales for providing the information
• Information to be given by the employer to the administering authority
• Contribution payover procedures
• Opt out forms and procedures 
• Records to be kept by employers and by the administering authority
• Re-enrolment procedures
• Compliance processes
• Employer registration with the Pensions Regulator

Other Employer Duties 

• Disclosure of information, scheme literature and forms
• Determining pensionable pay and contribution band attribution
• Information for leavers and retirees
• First instance decisions
• End of year returns (including new Finance Act 2011 requirements)
• Keeping records
• Policy requirements and exercise of discretions 
•  Internal Dispute Resolution Procedure (IDRP)

 For further details please refer to our Circular 259