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        <title><![CDATA[How we're preparing for automatic enrolment]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Automatic enrolment - Checking whether our pension scheme qualifies]]></title>
            <link>http://www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/employers/checking-whether-our-pension-scheme-qualifies.aspx</link>
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            <description><![CDATA[For us this involved a check being made as to whether we had a contracting out certificate and whether our scheme was an average or final salary scheme.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>    
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            <title><![CDATA[Automatic enrolment - Establishing our employer duties]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[After assessing our workforce, we had to establish which employees were active members of our pension scheme and saw that most were.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>    
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            <title><![CDATA[Automatic enrolment - Assessing our workforce - part two]]></title>
            <link>http://www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/employers/assessing-our-workforce---part-two.aspx</link>
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            <description><![CDATA[Assessing earnings can be one of the most complex areas of the assessment process, particularly when assessing those whose earnings fluctuate and risk crossing the qualifying earnings threshold, or the earnings trigger for auto enrolment.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>    
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            <title><![CDATA[Automatic enrolment - Assessing our workforce - part one]]></title>
            <link>http://www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/employers/assessing-our-workforce---the-initial-assessment.aspx</link>
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            <description><![CDATA[We have over 300 employees so we took the group assessment approach, using the flowchart in appendix B of the Assessing the workforce guidance. ]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>    
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            <title><![CDATA[Automatic enrolment - Establishing our position]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[We used the resources available on our website to help in the task of assessing our workforce.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>    
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            <title><![CDATA[Automatic enrolment - The working group's first task]]></title>
            <link>http://www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/employers/the-working-groups-first-task.aspx</link>
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            <description><![CDATA[Following the decision to bring forward our staging date, the first thing we did was check our allocated staging date in the staging date timeline on our website.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>    
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            <title><![CDATA[Automatic enrolment - Planning and preparation]]></title>
            <link>http://www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/employers/planning-and-preparation.aspx</link>
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            <description><![CDATA[With the working group established, we began planning out how we would approach the project]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>    
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            <title><![CDATA[Automatic enrolment - Initial decisions are made]]></title>
            <link>http://www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/employers/initial-decisions-are-made.aspx</link>
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            <description><![CDATA[We knew from the size of our organisation (305 employees) that we wouldn't be among the first to be staged. However, the Board decided to bring our staging date forward to the earliest date possible.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>    
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            <title><![CDATA[Automatic enrolment - An introduction to this blog]]></title>
            <link>http://www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/employers/an-introduction-to-this-blog.aspx</link>
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            <description><![CDATA[As The Pensions Regulator, our organisation is responsible for communicating the coming changes to workplace pensions law to all employers.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>    
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