Why this happens

If an employee has values in the Finish Date and Finish Period fields in Employee Details, they’re marked as a leaver. You can’t process pay details for them until you remove these values.

When you remove the Finish Date and Finish Period, the Remove Finish Date and Finish Period window appears. You’ll see three options.

The employee is rejoining the company

Select this if the employee left and rejoined in the same tax year. The window expands and prompts you to confirm the employee’s New Employment ID.

 TIP: For more about Employment IDs and when to change them, check our Employment ID guide. 

You can:

• Use the New Employment ID that Sage 50 Payroll Ireland assigns automatically
• Or enter a different value using:
  • Upper and lower case letters.
  • Digits 0–9.
  • These special characters: \ _

• The New Employment ID needs to be different from the Current Employment ID.
• You can’t use these characters:
  ^ & ' @ * £ € { } [ ] . ? , $ = "! # ( ) % . + ~

When you’re ready, select Save.

The employee was marked as a leaver in error

Select this if:

• You marked the employee as a leaver by mistake and sent a submission to Revenue
• Or you marked them as a leaver but didn’t send a submission

You need to resend a Payroll Submission to ROS to correct the details. 

I want to remove this for another reason

Select this if you’re reinstating a suspended employee.

Next steps

If you marked the employee as a leaver by accident, you need to update their record:

1. Open the employee’s record, then select the ETP tab.
2. Find the Left column.
3. On the last period you paid the employeeaid, change the value from Y to N.
4. Select Save, then Cancel.