CWPS News

Construction company directors convicted and fined in prosecutions taken by The Pensions Board

240 hours community service sentence imposed on construction company director in a prosecution taken by The Pensions Board

CWPS Trustees Pay the 2011 Government Pension Levy from Scheme Reserves

Court orders firm to pay contributions due to CWPS

How to register

Who needs to register in the Scheme?

By law, all employers in the construction and electrical industries who the Registered Employment Agreement (REA) applies to must provide pension benefits, death-in-service benefits and sick pay for all manual workers aged 20 to 65.

For a copy of the Construction Industry REA please click here or contact The Labour Court, Tom Johnson House, Haddington Rd. Dublin 4 www.labourcourt.ie

For a copy of the Electrical Industry REA please click here or contact The Labour Court, Tom Johnson House, Haddington Rd. Dublin 4 www.labourcourt.ie

There are three steps to registering as an employer with the Construction Workers' Pension Scheme:

complete an employer registration form
complete a Deed of Adherence
complete a new member registration form for each new member

For instructions on how to complete these forms please Click on our form below - How to register for CWPS.

Click on the image to download a copy of the form

Step 1

fill in a ‘deed of adherence"

This is the legal document that employers must fill in to register for the scheme.

Step 3

fill in ‘new member registration form’

This form gives us your employees details.

Step 2

fill in an "employer registration form"

This form to be completed by a Limited Company

This form to be completed by a Sole Trader/Partnership

You must make sure that your new employees are registered in the scheme within two weeks of starting to work for you, and you must fill in a separate form for each employee that you are registering.