Within six weeks from your staging date you must carry out a formal assessment of your staff to work out your duties to each of them. Once all eligible workers have been identified, their details will need to be sent to your pension provider in order to make them active members of the pension scheme.

If an employee has given notice to leave employment before you have completed auto-enrolment for them you can choose whether to automatically enrol them or not.

For more information:
http://www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/employers/assess-and-enrol-your-staff.aspx

As part of the payroll process, the pension contributions for both employer and employee will be calculated and details of how much is being deducted will need to be forwarded to your Pension Provider. You will also need to send payment in respect of these contributions to the Pension Provider no later than the 22nd day (19th if you pay by cheque) of the next month.

For more information:
http://www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/employers/making-contributions.aspx

After the staging date, you must write to your staff to tell them about your pension scheme, how auto-enrolment applies to them and to explain their rights. The Pensions Regulator has provided templates of each letter you need to notify:

• Entitled workers that they can request to join the pension scheme.
• Non-eligible jobholders that they can opt into the pension scheme.
• Eligible jobholders that they will be auto-enrolled and they have the right to opt out of auto-enrolment.

It is important to use the templates provided to ensure the contents of the letter are compliant.

If you have chosen to postpone auto-enrolment, you will need to write to each member of staff to let them know that postponement has taken place and the new date auto-enrolment will apply.

For more information:
http://www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/employers/write-to-your-staff.aspx
http://www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/employers/postponement.aspx

After the staging date, you will need to register online to confirm how you have met your auto-enrolment duties.  This declaration needs to be completed even if you did not need to enrol any members of staff on your staging date.

You have five months to complete the declaration.  This is a legal duty and if you fail to complete it by the due date you may be fined.

For more information:

http://www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/employers/complete-your-declaration-of-compliance.aspx