AU Payroll - Option to rehire employees using the same employee record
Xero recommends creating a new, duplicate employee record when a terminated employee returns to the organisation. This can also happen when an employee switches from permanent to casual, as they need to be terminated to pay out annual leave.
Due to HR add-ons that make the issue of setting up a new, duplicate employee in Xero extremely complicated and almost unworkable, I would really like to see an additional workflow in Xero to handle this. When unterminating an employee, I'd like to see Xero asking whether we're doing this to fix something or because we're rehiring the same employee, at which point we'd confirm/update all the usual details on a TFN declaration. I'd like to see Xero submit the relevant information to the ATO, based on what they need under STP Phase 2 as far as the TFN declaration is concerned and also have the ability to have multiple employment start and end dates clearly visible in Xero. The issue of multiple employees in Xero over longer periods of time and multiple bookkeepers is that long service leave is calculated based on one employee record because the bookkeeper isn't even aware that the employee once worked for the organisation at at an earlier point in time.
Carmen Morris
shared this idea
It's been a while since we've provided you with an update about this idea, so wanted to touch base
We've reviewed your comments and can see the that this idea has been steadily gaining support.
Whilst this idea isn't currently on our product team's roadmap, we're monitoring the activity and will continue to keep you updated along the way.
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Kelly Holland
commented
Inactive casual employees, so they do not show up all the time on the pay runs, and you do not have to click on the check box each time.
Also adding a 6-month and yearly payment option as quarterly is too often.
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Sonja Tuffin
commented
Payroll
Is there a way that when we end the employment of an employee, and then the employee returns down the track rather than re-enter the details of the employee, is Xero able to automatically create a new file for that employee once we click on the reinstate employee button? -
Emiel Saada
commented
Moving employees from Part-time to causal or visa versa without deleting them!
The Solve: Just have a date range/calendar within their employee info for what classification of employee they are during that date range.
Transitioning employees causes undue messiness of information, which is counter to the point of the software. You have 2 employees that are the same person. Which also counts towards how many employees a business has for xero pricing purposes.