Employing temporary staff

How to set up temporary staff in Sage 50 Payroll.

Many businesses take on temporary employees during the festive period to deal with the rush.

Sage 50 Payroll makes this easy, as you set the employees up as you normal. You can also postpone employee's automatic enrolment where required.

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Add the new employee

Create an employee record as normal for your temporary employees. For help with creating their employee record, follow our add a new employee using the employee wizard guide.

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Temporary staff and automatic enrolment

If you're using the Pensions Module, leave the pension scheme details blank when you set up the employee's record.

You can use the postponement option if you need to postpone the automatic enrolment of new employees for up to three months. Find out more in our postpone employee enrolment guide.

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Process as a leaver

When the employment is over, you need to process and update the employee's final pay period as normal. You can then process them as a leaver. For help with doing this, visit our make an employee a leaver and produce their P45 guide.

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