Does your church practice fair employment? This may seem like a strange question, but have you ever thought about how your lay employees are treated? Does your church comply with state and federal labor law, with national canons, and diocesan policy?

The first step in enrolling your lay employees in a pension plan is contacting the Church Pension Group (CPG) to set up a Lay Pension Plan. Each church or diocesan institution has the option of two plan types: the Defined Contribution Plan, or the Defined Benefit Plan (explained below). Once you have a plan in place, enrolling new employees is easy, you simply send in the employee application for new employees to the Church Pension Group.