How do I terminate an employee? | HR & Payroll connected orgs

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For you to terminate an employee correctly on both the HR and payroll platforms, you need to follow a specific process. This ensures your employees receive their correct termination pay and and that their off-boarding is smooth and trouble-free.

What you need to do

Step 1: Terminate an employee on the HR platform

Important

Before off-boarding an employee, create an offboarding checklist of the tasks that need to be completed before the employee's termination date. To learn how to do this, please refer to this article: How do I set up my organisation's offboarding checklists via the HR platform? 

To terminate your employee on the HR platform, please follow these steps:

  1. Log into Employment Hero.
  2. Click the People (people icon) menu on the purple side bar.
  3. Click the Employees List submenu.
  4. Click the Employees tab.
  5. Click the Actions dropdown button next to the employee you need to offboard.
  6. Click Offboard Employee.
    screenshot of the employees screen, highlighting the actions of offboard buttons for an employee
  7. Complete the following fields:
    • Termination date.
    • Termination type.
    • Comment.
    • Employee access.
    • Payroll cut-off date.

      Helpful Hint

      The Payroll Cut Off Date field allows you to choose a different time you like the platform to terminate the employee on your payroll platform if it is integrated with the HR platform. For example, so you can still finish the remaining leave and expense approvals or process your final Pay Run.

  8. Click the Terminate button.
    screenshot of the offboard employee popup, highlighting the terminate button
  9. You can complete the next steps on the payroll platform. Please refer to Step 2 in this article.
Step 2: Process your pay run on the payroll platform

First, run a pay run as usual. Within that pay run, you can mark the relevant employees that need to receive a termination payment. Please follow these steps:

  1. Log into Employment Hero Payroll.
  2. Click the Pay Run (hand icon) menu on the black side bar.
  3. Click the Pay Runs submenu.
  4. Click the New Pay Run button.
    screenshot of the pay runs screen, highlighting the new pay run button
  5. Complete the following fields:
    • Pay Schedule
    • Pay period ending.
    • Date pay run will be paid.
    • Manually add employees to this pay run.
    • Create pay run with empty pay.
    • Import timesheets.
  6. Click the Create button.
    screenshot of the new pay run popup, highlighting the create button

    Important

    For information on how to add an employee to a pay run, refer to the following article.

  7. Click on the employee's name who needs a termination payment.
  8. Click the Actions button.
  9. Click the Terminate Employee button.
    screenshot of the employee earnings, highlighting the actions and terminate employee buttons

    Warning

    If the employee is included in an un-finalised pay run, you cannot use the termination payment feature. You will need to finalise those other pay runs first. Afterwards, you can process their termination payment.

  10. Select the termination date.
  11. Click the Save button.
    screenshot of the terminate employee popup, highlighting the save button

    Important

    Repeat the steps 7 to 11 for each employee that needs a termination payment.

  12. Click the Finalise Pay Run button.
    screenshot of the pay run screen, highlighting the finalise pay run button
  13. Input the correct details if you have Pay Run Approval set up.
  14. Click the Next button.
    screenshot of the pay run approval screen, highlighting the next button
  15. Complete the following fields:
    • Date paid.
    • Create pay event.
    • Create super payment.
    • Publish pay slips.
    • Report packs.
  16. Click the Finalise button.
    screenshot of the finalise pay run modal, highlighting the finalise button

Further information

Delete task reminders for terminated employees
Terminating an employee does not automatically cancel any onboarding tasks that were triggered before an employee was offboarded. Therefore, you could still receive a reminder if a previously triggered task is past its due date.
The best way to delete these pending tasks is by following the process below:
  1. Click the   Dashboard (Home) menu.
  2. Go to your To-do list widget.
  3. Click the elipsis.
    View all tasks.jpg
  4. Click View all tasks.
  5. Click the Other Tasks tab.
  6. Type in the name of the terminated employee to the search function.
  7. Select all the tasks you want to delete.
  8. Click the Actions button on one of the tasks.Actions in tasks.jpg
  9. Click Delete.

Explore similar topics

  • Payroll payment reporting: Unpaid employees This feature allows you to create a report covering the details on the last date your non terminated employees received payment via a pay run within your payroll platform.
  • Payroll pay run reporting: Pay run inclusions This feature allows you to create a report on the inclusions your organisation has processed within your finalised pay runs, with the ability to narrow this data down by employing entity, pay schedule and location. 
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