Businesses hiring seasonal summer staff should check their workplace pension automatic enrolment duties.
If you employ seasonal or temporary staff, you must assess them individually every time you pay them. This includes staff who work for you for a few days, a few weeks or several months.
Your assessment of who to put into a pension scheme may take more time and effort, as you will need to take into account:
- that they may only work for you for short periods of time
- that they may join and leave your employment in the middle of pay periods
- that their earnings and hours vary
Use the Pensions Regulator’s seasonal and temporary staff tool, to work out what legal duties will apply to you and what you'll need to do.
For further information please select the following link: Employing seasonal or temporary staff.