Terminate an employee in Sage Payroll and HR (ZA)

How to terminate an employee in Sage Payroll (South Africa only).

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Written by Thandiwe Khoza
Updated over a week ago

If an employee leaves your company, you can remove them from your list of active employees. This means they'll be processed as a leaver in their next pay run. They'll then stop appearing in any future pay runs.

To do this:

From the Employee tab, find the employee you want to terminate, then select the additional options from the right-hand side and Terminate Employee.

Enter the date for the termination as well as the termination reason and select save.

To undo the termination, follow the same steps and select Reinstate Employee.

Note: If there was a break in service you should not Reinstate the employee as this will impact the employee's PAYE calculation.


Delete an employee

You can only delete an employee that hasn't been included in a finalized pay run.

To do this:

From the Employee tab, find the employee you want to delete, then select the additional options from the right-hand side (the three full stops) and Delete Employee.

If you want to stop an employee from appearing on your pay runs because they've left your company, you need to follow the employee termination steps above.

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