With pension reform for larger employers due to start on 1 October 2012, Ceridian UK, one of the UK’s leading HR and payroll providers, is launching new solutions that will help companies with the biggest change for decades.

The Department for Work and Pensions has estimated that administration costs in the first year for all 8,000 employers with 250 or more staff will be about £77 million, with ongoing administration costs of £11 million a year. Ceridian has developed solutions that will not only help companies stay compliant, but also manage this cost in the most effective way with minimal risk.

This includes software that will automatically identify and enrol relevant employees into the chosen pension scheme and ease communication and administration while taking care of all the required activities necessary to keep companies compliant and ease pressure on the organisation’s resource. In addition, the solutions can help companies explore salary sacrifice to gain National Insurance...