Auto Enrolment – Entitled Workers

To see whether your staff falls into this category review our blog “Auto Enrolment – Worker Categories”

• An Entitled Worker has the right to join a pension scheme based on their level of earnings with you as an employer.
• They are not Automatically Enrolled into the scheme, and they are not legally entitled to be part of your Automatic Enrolment qualifying Pension Scheme.

Once you have categorised your member of staff as an Entitled Worker you need to notify them of this by letter, if they wish to join a pension scheme you must enrol them into a scheme of your choice. The employee would then have to make contributions but as an employer you have no legal obligation to contribute too.

If you have any questions relating to whether your staff are Entitled Workers and what implication this has to your business please feel free to contact us here at Cheadles. We can advise what correspondence needs sending to your staff and what to do if they decide they want to contribute to a pension fund.