It’s crucial that the way that automatic enrolment interacts with existing employment contracts is fully understood. The key difference is that contractual enrolment requires a worker’s consent to be enrolled into a pension scheme, whereas automatic enrolment does not.
Join Neil Esslemont and Andy Nicholls from the regulator’s industry liaison team as they outline the different processes for contractual and automatic enrolment.
This free webinar, on Friday 22 March at 11.00am, will include the relevance of opting out and postponement to these processes, communicating membership to workers, and identifying whether an existing scheme qualifies for automatic enrolment. There will also be an opportunity to ask questions.
You can find more information about this webinar on TPR’s website .
PREPARING FOR AUTO ENROLMENT - USE PAYSLIPS TO GET THE MESSAGE ACROSS
6 March 2013
Following the publication of research which showed that 86% of all employees check their payslips, Edinburgh University used this vessel as one its methods of publicising news of Auto Enrolment.
As reported in Pensions Week Edinburgh University, who began Auto Enrolment this month adopted Twitter-esque brevity to help get the message across.
“ We didn’t have many characters to work with, it was only about two or three sentences ,” the university’s assistant director of finance, Terry Fox, told PW.
The employer used this to get across the basic message: if you meet the criteria and you’re not in a scheme already, there will be deductions in your pay – if you need further information, go here. For those of us that report on the complexities of workplace reform and the innovation that drives its communication, it is refreshing to consider the demands of fitting such an important financial event into a plain, unformatted box. And to think of all those hours spent crafting that introductory video, now sitting on your intranet awaiting its audience. “ No matter how much you do verbally, or by email or sending letters to people, there will be some who don’t read it because it says pensions at the top ,” Fox warns. There are proponents for bite size communication. In November, charity Age UK called for a “drip-drip” approach to communication, arguing there was a limit to how much financial planning information people could take in. “ The best communications material is simple and concise,” according to the Pension Quality Mark’s communication guide, issued last week, which cautioned the more technologically minded communication teams not to confuse the medium with the message. It is quite possible the benefits of workplace saving could be lost in the edit. Edinburgh University is certainly bracing itself for the impact of this month’s payslip surprise. Early indications suggest, though, that beyond the initial shock, there might be something positive to tweet about.
CIPP Policy News Journal
12/04/2013, Page 257 of 362
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