Employing temporary staff

How to set up temporary staff in Sage 50 Payroll.

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

Sage 50 Payroll makes this easy, as you set the employees up as normal. You can also postpone employees' 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 the add a new employee using the employee wizard article.

 NOTE: If the option to add a new employee isn't available in your software, follow the unable to create a new employee record article. 

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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.

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

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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.

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