Pensions - Gowling Wlg

Key Points Anyone who employs workers in the UK will have to comply with new employer duties with effect from their 'staging date'; An employer's 'staging date' is set out in legislation and falls between 1 October 2012 and 1 February 2018 depending on how many people work for the employer; Employer duties are to: assess and categorise their workers; automatically enrol any workers who meet the criteria to be 'eligible jobholders'; and are not members of a 'qualifying scheme'           into an 'automatic enrolment scheme'; issue communications to all workers including certain prescribed information; process opt-in and opt-out requests; pay contributions for jobholders in pension savings in line with statutory minima; and provide The Pensions Regulator with a confirmation of how they have complied with their duties.