Employee Re-Starts Work

If an employee comes back to work for you, but was previously terminated (ie had completely finished up, been paid out for holiday pay etc), we suggest setting them up under a new record with a new employee number.

This means you can keep the old record with the old start and finish date, and the previous pay history. The new record will be easy to set up as leave balances will start at zero, and no history needs to be entered.

You can use the same name and IRD number for the employee in the new record, and all other details can be the same.

The employee will however have a different number for the new record, and the alpha key will need to be different. For example, if the employees name is John Smith, the alpha key in the old record might have been SMITHJOHN. You can either go back to the old record and change the old alpha key - eg to SMITHOLD - or use something else for the new alpha key - eg SMITHJOHN2, or SMITHJ2 etc.