{"id":1660,"date":"2026-04-21T13:32:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2026-04-21T13:32:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:32:58","slug":"pension-auto-enrolment-employer-obligations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/pension-auto-enrolment-employer-obligations\/","title":{"rendered":"Pension Auto-Enrolment: Employer Obligations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The UK operates an automatic enrolment pension system, requiring employers to enrol eligible employees into a workplace pension scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both the employee and employer must contribute. The minimum total contribution is 8% of qualifying earnings, including at least 3% from the employer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a legal obligation regulated by The Pensions Regulator. Employees can opt out, but they must be enrolled first. Failure to comply may result in penalties for the employer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ll help you stay compliant and set everything up correctly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK operates an automatic enrolment pension system, requiring employers to enrol eligible employees into a workplace pension scheme. Both the employee and employer must contribute. The minimum total contribution is 8% of qualifying earnings, including at least 3% from the employer. This is a legal obligation regulated by The Pensions Regulator. Employees can opt&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/pension-auto-enrolment-employer-obligations\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1664,"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions\/1664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}