Under the Pensions Act 2008, every employer in the UK must put certain staff into a workplace pension scheme and contribute towards it. This is called 'automatic enrolment'. If you employ at least one person you are an employer and you have certain legal duties.
It's important that you understand what to do and by when, so you can meet your automatic enrolment duties on time.
Your legal duties begin on the day your first member of staff starts work. Even if you think you won't need to put your staff into a scheme, you'll still have duties.
Automatic enrolment is a continuous responsibility, each time you pay your staff you must monitor changes in their age and earnings to see if they need to be put into your scheme.
Every three years you must carry out re-enrolment to put back in any staff who have left your scheme.
You will also need to continue paying into your pension scheme, manage requests to join or leave the scheme and keep records.
For further information visit https://www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/en/employers