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Dear Colleagues,<br>
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The message below regarding pensions enrolment may be important to
members of Research staff. Cc'ed to academic staff for info.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Rob<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear colleagues<o:p></o:p></p>
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You may have seen some of the publicity recently around
pensions auto-enrolment. The University’s staging date is 1
May 2013. Given that each of you have significant numbers of
research staff in your areas, where there is a high
concentration of current non membership of pension scheme, I
thought it would be helpful to flag that the University will
be holding information sessions during the month of March to
highlight the issue of pensions auto enrolment which some
staff may wish to attend. The dates, times and venues are
below. These sessions are aimed at people who are <b>not</b>
currently enrolled in the pension scheme; there will be no
impact on those who are already enrolled in USS, LGS or TSS.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The implications of auto enrolment are
greatest for those who regularly earning above the auto
enrolment threshold (more than £787 per month) where there is
an obligation for the University to auto enrol into a pension
scheme, for most this will be USS. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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18 March 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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19 March 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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20 March 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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28 March 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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noon – 1 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Webpages providing information about
auto-enrolment have been launched and can be found on <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.strath.ac.uk/finance/financialservices/payrollpensions/pensionautoenrolment/#d.en.698160">the
Finance website</a>. In addition posters will be placed on
noticeboards across the campus highlighting the impending
changes. These posters give the relevant web address and
contact details for the Pensions Team. We will also be
attaching an information factsheet to payslips in March to
draw attention to the changes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please let me know if you have any queries
on the above. General queries on auto enrolment should be
sent to the Pensions Team within Finance and a dedicated
e-mail address has been set up for this (<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:autoenrolment@strath.ac.uk"><span
style="color:windowtext">autoenrolment@strath.ac.uk</span></a>).
In the meantime if you feel it would be appropriate to share
the above information through PIs please do so. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lauren<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Lauren
Perrie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Senior
HR Adviser<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University
of Strathclyde<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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