12 July 2024
If you are taking on extra staff over the summer, you must make sure you’re complying with your automatic enrolment pension duties.
The warning comes from The Pensions Regulator (TPR) in an online campaign aimed at employers most likely to hire summer temporary workers.
Even if your additional staff work for you for a few days or weeks, you must assess whether they are eligible to be enrolled into a pension scheme each time you pay them. If they are eligible, you must put them into a qualifying scheme and pay contributions. As your temporary workers may have variable hours and pay, your assessment of who to put into a pension scheme may take more time and effort. TPR has guidance that will help you ensure you are meeting your duties correctly.
Remember, if you have staff who will be working for you for less than three months, you can use postponement to delay assessing those employees. This pauses the employer duty to assess staff until the end of the three-month postponement period.
Check the steps you need to take to assess and enrol seasonal or temporary staff. Additional information is available if you are employing staff whose hours and pay will vary.
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