As an employer, you have duties under the Pensions Act 2008 to enrol some of your workers into a workplace pension scheme and contribute towards it. Under the Pensions Act 2008, every employer in the UK must put certain staff into a workplace pension scheme and additionally, contribute towards it themselves. This is called 'automatic enrolment'. If you employ at least one person in your business, you are an employer, and you therefore have certain legal duties that you must fulfil relating to your workers and workplace pensions.