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Changing employment types via Payroll classic

Available for the following payroll classic plans: Standard, Premium
Available for the following user access levels: Admin

As an organisation, you may have employees that need to change their employment type, due to contract changes or a work allocation or role change within your company. Therefore, you many need to update your payroll platform to accurately reflect the changes to the employees working conditions. The Employment Type Setting feature allows you to do this and update their an employee's work type, between full-time, part-time, labour hire, superannuation income stream or casual.

Important

If you are using Employment Hero, we recommend making employment-type changes in Employment Hero, and then these changes in Employment Hero will sync over to your Employment Hero payroll classic platform.

Getting started

The following premises will walk you through how to change an employee's employment type, and update their employment agreement.

Update employment agreement
  1. Log into your Payroll classic platform.
  2. Click the  Employees menu.
  3. Select the employee who needs their employee agreement updated. 
  4. Click the  Pay Run Defaults button.
  5. Select the appropriate employment agreement from the Employment Agreement drop-down. emptype04.jpg
  6. Scroll down and click the Save button.
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Update employment type
  1. Log into your Payroll classic platform.
  2. Click the   Employees menu.
  3. Select the employee who needs their employee type updated. 
  4. Click the  Tax File Declaration button.
  5. Select the new employment type from the Employment Type drop-down.
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  6. Scroll down and click the Save button.
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Update the employment type for a non-award employee

If the employee is not attached to an Award, you will also need to check that they are on the correct:

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