Currently if you turn on your Tv or radio, pick up a paper, look at any of your social media feeds (especially if we’re connected in some way) or catch a passing random signal you would have noticed something….

This saturday is the showing of the 50th anniversary episode of Doctor Who.

I’m not sure if you’re a fan…but in the Daems house we’re lovers of the Doctors escapades. However sometimes I get really jealous…

You see the doctor sees time as “wibbly wobbly timey wimey”….

….and in my professional life I see time as quickly moving towards a point in time where companies are leaving preparing for their employer duties and automatic enrolment obligations way too late!

This week we’ve unfortunately had to say no to a firm looking to comply in January as we didn’t feel we could help them based on the time they had left and the quality of the data they had on their workforce (I’d rather make promises I can keep and I couldn’t guarantee that they would comply in time) and I’ve got a feeling we’re going to see more of this as more employers need to comply.

Our experience is that employers are leaving it as late as possible before they prepare and then realise that if they had the ability to rewind they’d probably go back and give themselves more time to prepare.

However as a business we needed to make a decision.  To make sure we can continue to deliver the high standards of service our clients expect we’ve aiming to set clear guidelines on the work we can accept.

This is based on the amount of time companies of a specific size have in order to comply with the automatic enrolment regulations and our understanding (and experience) of working with existing employers.

We wanted to share these cut off deadlines with you…

Firstly to ensure that you were aware of our ‘cut off points’ so that if you wanted us to help with your clients over the coming months you have the ability (now you know the dates) to manage the expectations of your clients over the next few months as their staging date approaches.

Secondly, we have also found that sharing the timescales and staging dates also provides employers and their professional introducers with an understanding that for many medium sized companies the amount of time they have to prepare for auto enrolment is very quickly running out.

Even if you decide that you can help these firms without our help it’s important to ensure that you’re aware of the potential timescales associated with ensuring that you can help employers with the process of compliance in a professional manner.

Staging Date / Cut off Dates Timeline for automatic enrolment

If you’ve read this and know a little more about when you or your clients employer duties (including automatic enrolment) kick in we’ve done our job!

However If you feel we can help and want to talk about how we might be able to add value to what you do on behalf of your clients please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Before we run out of that wibbly wobbly stuff we call time