If you employ seasonal or temporary staff, you must assess them individually based on their ages and how much they earn every time you pay them.
Any staff that are aged between 22 to State Pension Age and earn over £192 a week, or £833 a month, must be put into a pension scheme which you must pay into. This includes staff who only 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
If you know that any of your staff will be working for you for less than three months, you can choose to delay working out who to put into a pension scheme. This is known as postponement. Within six weeks from the date after postponement starts, you must write to staff individually to tell them what you are doing and how automatic enrolment applies to them.
During any staff member’s period of postponement, you won’t need to put them into a pension scheme unless they expressly ask to be put into one.
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