Many businesses take on temporary employees in busy periods, such as the festive season or summer holidays, to deal with the rush.

Sage Payroll makes this easy, as you set the employees up as normal. You can also postpone employees' automatic enrolment where required.

Add the new employee

Create an employee record as normal for your temporary employees.

For help with creating their employee record, follow the add a new employee article.

Temporary staff and automatic enrolment

You can use the postponement option if you need to postpone the automatic enrolment of new employees for up to three months.

To find out more, visit our postpone employee enrolment article.

Process as a leaver

When the employment is over, process and update the employee's final pay period as normal, then process them as a leaver.

For help with doing this, follow the make an employee a leaver and produce their P45 article.