With enhanced features and seamless functionality, this new platform is designed to elevate their experience. Plus, our updated support pages ensure they have all the resources needed to navigate with ease.

How to book your place
Click here to use our Microsoft Form to secure your place now: https://forms.office.com/e/Ti7t5JrfHD 
Once we reach capacity, we will create a wait list and offer any spare places to those on the wait list.

If you book on and need to cancel, please email engagement@sypa.org.uk so we can offer your place to someone else.

 
What happens next?
After you book a place using the form, you’ll get an email a few days before the event asking you to confirm your attendance. This email will have the full agenda and timings for the day as well as information such as directions to the venue, parking arrangements and what you need to bring with you to the Employer Forum.

If you have any questions in the meantime, please contact Vickie Burtoft or Elaine Fairley from our Engagement Team on engagement@sypa.org.uk.

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The McCloud judgement will also impact current members of the scheme going forward.

What does this mean for me as an employer?

The principal responsibility for employers (and their payroll providers) is to ensure that SYPA has correct records of all changes in working hours (and unpaid absences) for all members from 1 April 2014 onwards. When the 2014 scheme was introduced we asked employers to continue to provide information on working hours (and unpaid absences) in exactly the same way as they had done under the old final salary scheme. This approach continued when we moved to collecting member information on a monthly basis from April 2018 so theoretically our member records should have continued to be accurately maintained since 2014 However, we have carried out some sample checks on our database and this does suggest not all employers (and their payroll providers) have kept member records up to date in all instances so we do need to ask employers to verify the information we hold on each member.

What will I be asked to do?

We are currently working on a data capture tool that will allow you to check your individual member records and make updates to the records for us to share with the members concerned.

I would like to start work on this now - what can I do?

You can check the data we hold for your active members by logging into Employers Web. Under Membership Search enter the members details in the search criteria. Then select Membership under the Additional Data tab. If the hours are incorrect you can supply the correct hours by selecting Change of Hours under the Actions tab. Remember, Employers Web will only give you access to active members so you will still need to verify the hours for members that have left.
We can also provide a data extract from our records of the membership history for all your members since 1 April 2014 to enable you to then issue any corrections. If you would like to receive this please email Engagement@sypa.org.uk with the name of the employer(s) you wish to receive this information for.

What else should I be doing?

You should ensure that you do not archive or destroy any HR/payroll records which you will need in order to check details back to 1 April 2014 (this includes records for members who have left your employment since that date).

What are scheme members being told?

We are asking scheme members to check their own membership records since 1 April 2014 online via our mypension portal and to advise you if they think their membership records are incorrect.