Keeping your employees informed
Within six weeks of your duties start date
You need to keep your employees up to date and informed through certain regulatory communications, to make sure they know all about auto enrolment.
Once you’ve assessed your employees, you need to write to them each individually by law. It can be by letter or email, but you’ll need to explain how auto enrolment applies to them and share details about the workplace pension scheme you’ve chosen, including:
- When they can join the workplace pension scheme
- The scheme’s key features
- Who will be auto enrolled and who can choose to join
- How to opt out if they want to.
Just make sure you send it within six weeks of your duties start date, as it's a legal requirement. If your scheme is with us, you need to do this before you send us information about your joiners, because it affects the date the opt-out window starts.
Your payroll software might have communication templates to send to your employees automatically. If you need to create your own employee communications, The Pensions Regulator also has templates you can use.