To make an employee a restarter, you must amend their start and end dates and ensure they have the correct tax code.
Follow these steps:
Employees > Status to All or Past and Update the relevant employee
- Ensure the top Details tab and the lower Main tab are selected
- Clear the End date
- Set a new Start date
- Clear the Original start date (unless TUPE applies)
- Ensure Existing employee is clear
- Switch to the Tax tab
- Clear the Employee statement
- Clear any old P45 entries (if applicable)
- Switch to the Login tab and set the Active tick box to enable the worker to log in
- Switch to the Pay Item Editor tab
- Click Show hidden statutory Pay Items
- Clear any values in the PAYE Previous Pay, Previous Tax, Tax code and Effective date.
- Click Update to save all the changes
On Pay run approval, a new start employment start date will be sent.
Errors #
If you see any errors, you may need to switch to the relevant tab to see the details of the error.
If you see the error “Cannot revise previous start date XXXX-XX-XX (leaving date XXXX-XX-X) for existing employee“, then you have not cleared the Existing employee check box:
