Right, today I'm putting on my
schoolmaster's hat and sending you to detention, your punishment is to write
out a hundred times "I will start to plan my auto-enrolment early enough".
We're now entering the busiest part
of 2014 – for me & my team there won't be much free time between now and
August. The workload is planned and we know what we have to do to look after
our existing clients, but it's the new clients who present us with a problem.
So many employers have simply not
left enough time to prepare – two weeks before the February 1st
staging date and I was sitting with employers who haven't even started their
planning – you might need to implement a new pension scheme, review employee
contracts, change your payroll process. Two weeks isn't enough to make any of
those changes.
Please do yourself (and your
auto-enrolment consultant) a favour – start your planning at least three months
before your staging date.
Rob Barksfield
Auto-enrolment Consultant
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