If you employ seasonal or temporary staff you must assess them individually every time you pay them. This includes staff who work for you for a few days, a few weeks or several months.
You can either put staff who meet the age and earnings criteria into a pension scheme. Alternatively, you can delay working out who to put into a scheme for up to three months. This is known as postponement. You will still have specific duties.
Find out how to use postponement
If they are still working for you after the three month postponement period you must: work out who to put into a scheme.
From your duties start date you must assess your staff each time you pay them to work out who to put into a pension scheme.
You can also consider using postponement.
From your duties start date you must assess your staff each time you pay them to work out who to put into a pension scheme.
If you have staff who won't be working for you for longer than three months you may decide to postpone assessing whether you need to put them into a scheme.
You might choose to do this for all of your staff to save you time and effort.
At the end of the postponement period, you must assess and automatically enrol any staff who are still working for you if they meet the age and earnings thresholds.
Find out how to use postponement.
From your duties start date you must assess your staff each time you pay them to work out who to put into a pension scheme.