AE commentary 2014-2015

Forthcoming trends and challenges
Our focus over the next 12 months
In the coming year, we will be focusing our attention on educating and
enabling small and micro employers to comply with their automatic
enrolment duties, as well as overseeing the first group of large
employers through the re-enrolment process. We will do this by:
continuing to refine our communications for micro employers,
ensuring all our information tools are as simple as possible, are easy
to use and accessible for this audience. We will adapt our website,
send direct communications, engage with them via a variety of
social media tools and promote our messages via a national
advertising campaign
providing a simple steps process which will allow small and micro
employers to quickly and easily identify their specific duties
according to their circumstances. They will then be presented with a
tailored online and offline journey, based upon their duties
engaging with the advisers that employers will be relying on for
support in complying with their duties. We will also be working
closely with the professional bodies who represent employers and
intermediaries, to help us disseminate information and guidance
adapting our materials for groups of employers with particular
information and communication requirements. (In early 2015
we published an essential guide to automatic enrolment for
individuals who employ their own care and support, and we will
produce tailored communications for other specific audiences
where required)
targeting specific industry sectors that we’ve identified are
at greatest risk of non-compliance, such as the construction,
hospitality and retail sectors
helping to ensure that the DC trust-based schemes that an
increasing number of workers will be automatically enrolled into are
well governed and administered
communicating with large employers about their re-enrolment duties In 2015-16 we
will be focusing
our attention
on educating
and enabling
small and micro
employers.
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