How do I offboard and/or terminate an employee via the HR platform?

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Available for the following user access levels: Admin    

When an agreement between an employee and your organisation has expired, the employee offboarding feature provides a convenient platform for you to terminate them. You can choose the termination type, date, and the reason for the termination. The employee removal feature also allows you to quickly and easily delete the employee and their information from your HR platform.

Warning

If you delete an employee from your platform, their data will be removed and no record kept for auditing purposes. For this reason, we only recommend this if there is a duplicate employee file and/or their details show as pending, meaning the employee has not yet signed into the HR platform.

When terminating an employee, you may also need to process a termination payment within the payroll platform. If this is the case, then there is a specific process that needs following. To read more about how to terminate an employee in the correct order, refer to the following guide.

If your organisation has an active connection to the learning platform, then terminating an employee of the HR platform will also deactivate the employee's learning account. However, if you delete an employee record on the HR platform, it will not delete that employee from your learning platform.

Also, you can only set a payroll cut-off date if you are using our Employment Hero Payroll product. Plus, the termination date must be future-dated for the termination time, date, and payroll cut-off options to appear on your HR platform.

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  Select the payroll platform you integrated with for the relevant instructions. If you do not have an integrated payroll product, click the HR Only tab.

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Cancel an employee offboarding

Important

You can only cancel an employee's offboarding if the termination date has yet to occur.

  1. Click the  Personnel menu.
  2. Click the Employees submenu.
  3. Click the Action  button.
  4. Click the   Cancel offboarding button
  5. Choose whether to maintain or close the remaining employee offboarding tasks.
  6. Click the Confirm button.
    screenshot of a pop up message asking if you want to cancel offboarding
Offboard and terminate an employee

Important

Before off-boarding an employee, make sure that you have created an off-boarding checklist. This generates a list of tasks that need completing before their termination date. To read further details on how to create an off-boarding checklist, refer to the following article.

  1. Click the   Personnel menu.
  2. Click the Employees submenu.
  3. Click the Action   button.
  4. Click the   Off-Board Employee button.
    screenshot of the employees page, with a highlight on the actions dropdown and offboard employee buttons
  5. Complete the following fields:
    • Termination date.
    • Termination type.
      • Resignation:
        • Relocation.
        • Further education.
        • Better rewards.
        • Health.
        • Career advancement.
        • Career change.
        • Travelling.
        • Family.
        • Other
      • Abandonment.
      • Termination:
        • Serious misconduct.
        • Poor performance.
        • Redundancy.
        • Incomplete probation.
        • Work eligibility.
        • Other.
      • Retirement.
      • Other.
    • Comment.
    • Would you consider this personnel for rehire?
    • Employee access:
      • Allow access until a specified date and time:
        • Give access until x date at x time.
      • Remove access immediately
      • Allow access until the termination date.
    • Payroll cut-off date:
      • Same as termination date.
      • Custom 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. For example, so you can still finish the remaining leave and claim approvals or process your final pay run.

      In addition to cut-off dates and times, if a date but not a time is entered into the "Give access until" field, the employee will have access until 11:59pm of the date specified, after which they will retain access but with a restricted view.

  6. Click the Terminate button.
    Offboard employee with terminate highlighted
  7. If you want to create a backfill role advert for the terminated employee, click the Yes button.

     

    Helpful Hint

    We will send a reminder to create a backfill role a week before their termination date.

    Screenshot of where to click on yes to create a backfill role when terminating an employee

  8. If you chose to create an advert, this will open the Create a role screen, where you will need to enter the required details. Screenshot of the create a role screen to create a backfill role when terminating an employee
  9. If you choose not to create a backfill role advert when you are offboarding the employee, you can do this retroactively:

    1. Open the Employee page.
    2. Click on the Actions button.
    3. Click the Create Backfill Role button.

    Helpful Hint

    If the offboarding of the employee is cancelled, we will then automatically close the related backfill role you created on your HR platform.

    Screenshot of the how to retroactively create a backfill role after you have already terminated the employee in the employment hero hr platform

Deleting data

Remove an employee from the HR platform

Warning

Removing an employee from your platform will remove their data, which means there is no record kept for auditing purposes. If you want to remove your employees but keep their data, then refer to the Off-Boarding section of this article. An admin can not delete an employee once they have:

  • Have an asset assigned.
  • Onboarded an employee.
  • Submitted or approved leave.
  • Submitted or approved timesheets.
  • Signed an HR document and/or contract.
  1. Click the  Personnel menu.
  2. Click the Employees submenu.
  3. Click the Action  button.
  4. Click the  Delete button screenshot of the employees screen, with a highlight on the actions and delete buttons for one employee
  5. On the confirmation screen, type in the employee's name and click the Delete button.

     

    Important

    The HR platform shows the employee's name in bold within the two brackets. The employee's name, however, does not include the two outer brackets. To delete an employee, you need to type in the employee's name, including any dates, times, and/or punctuation marks displayed in the name.

    screenshot of the delete employee file pop-up, highlighting the textbox for the name and the delete buttons

Further information

Why can I not see the employee access and payroll cut-off date?
An employee's access and cut-off dates will only appear if they are occurring on a future date. These dates will not appear if the cut-off dates occurred in the past or on the current date.

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