Stakeholder pension designation - Pure Employment Law

On 1 October 2012 the requirement for an employer who employs five or more employees to designate and facilitate access to a stakeholder pension scheme was abolished.

This means an employer is no longer obliged to provide access to a pension scheme until the employer becomes subject to the duty to auto-enrol its eligible workforce in a compulsory pension scheme. The auto-enrolment provisions are being phased in over a number of years up to 2018. For more information on auto-enrolment please see our article here. If there is already has a pension scheme in place which an employee is paying into by way of deductions from their salary, those arrangements can continue during the transition phase.

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