ACS Assessor Guide - Security Industry Authority

Requirements change for 2013Good practice change for 2013ACS Assessor GuideSection 4 – Criterion Specific Guidelines: Criteria 6Criteria 6 – People6.3.2 A pensions policy exists which is implemented and communicated.Required Achievement LevelThere is no workplace pensionscheme in place and theorganisation is unaware of itsresponsibilities under autoenrolment.The organisation offers aworkplace pension scheme(stakeholder or companypension) AND/OR is aware ofand preparing for autoenrolment.Employees are encouraged toseek advice relating to howmembership of the schemeand/or auto-enrolmentcorrelates with the level ofstate pension.All aspects of the previouscolumn plus:Where not currently requiredto auto-enrol, the organisationis continuing to provide aworkplace pension scheme(company or stakeholder) inadvance of their staging datefor auto-enrolment.The organisation facilitates theavailability of expert advice relatingto pension arrangements.All aspects of the previouscolumn plus:There is a workplace pensionscheme in place to which theemployer contributes, at leastmatching employee contributions. Itis open to all employees.All aspects of theprevious column plus:The employer provides a definedbenefit occupational pensionscheme open to all employees.152The contents of this publication are copyright ©2013 Security Industry Authority, all rights reserved. No part of the contents may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, by any means without prior written permission of the copyright owner.