Can I undo terminating an employee?

What to do if you need to reverse the termination of an employee.

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Written by Oliver Cook
Updated over a week ago

When an employee leaves your company, to process them as a leaver you terminate them in Sage HR. This removes the employee as an active employee in your company, and they no longer appear in your company directory.

If you need to undo this, either because the employee is no longer leaving or you terminated them by accident, we explain below what to do.


Sage HR - No Sage payroll integration

If you use Sage HR without any integration with Sage payroll software, you can un-terminate an employee using the Re-hire option.


Sage HR integrated with Sage 50 Payroll

If you use Sage HR integrated with Sage 50 Payroll, you can't undo a termination yourself. If this has been done by accident, an admin user can contact Sage HR support and we can undo this for you.

📎NOTE: Sage HR support can only undo a termination if done in error, or if an employee no longer needs to be terminated. If the terminated employee is a returning historical leaver, you must follow our guidance in, Re-add a returning leaver.


Queries this guide answers

  • I terminated an employee by accident

  • I want to undo a termination

  • Can you un-terminate?

  • Terminated employee need to be un-terminated

  • How do I reverse termination?

  • Terminated employee is no longer leaving

  • Undo terminated employee

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