WITH the three-year automatic pension re-enrolment deadline looming in 2015, an independent workplace pensions and employee benefits specialist has launched the first in a series of informational guides aimed at reducing risk and ensuring full compliance for employers.

The first guide from Bromsgrove-based Johnson Fleming titled Changing your auto-enrolment support, provides advice on the biggest task facing large employers and HR professionals to date – reviewing and transitioning support options before significant legislation changes come into force.

The firm's consultancy director Iain Chadwick, said: "As we approach the two-year milestone of auto-enrolment, employers are increasingly realising that getting to the staging date was the easy part. With the total removal of commission from pension related products and services and the introduction of the pension charge cap, all coinciding with the three year re-enrolment window, many employers will need to review their support options to ensure they are not in contravention of the new rules.

“It is also an opportune moment for employers to take a retrospective look back over the decisions they made at the start of the auto-enrolment process, to ensure that their system is fit-for-purpose and that auto-enrolment has met their objectives.”

Mr Chadwick added that while much of the industry focuses upon the ongoing auto-enrolment staging, little support has been made available for those entering the secondary market, despite the complex and lengthy processes associated with re-enrolment and the ensuing changes to legislation. Johnson Fleming’s guides to re-enrolment will arm employers with the information they need to review their existing support options, using the experience they have gained over the past two years, in order to determine what support they need to run their schemes day-to-day while remaining compliant. The free guide is available through johnsonfleming.com/guide/reenrolment1 or call 01527 571 300.