P45 - Terminating Employment

The P45 drop down menu is located on the menu Bar as shown below:


Terminating Employment: P45 Drop Down Menu

Terminate Employment

This option allows the user to terminate the employment of an employee who is no longer working with your company. You can access this option through the P45 drop down menu or by clicking on the Terminate Employment option in the middle of the blue panel on the left of the Employee screen as shown below:


Terminating Employment: Select Terminating Employment Option

When you click on the Terminate employment option you are presented with the following screen:


Terminating Employment: Select Employee to Terminate

Here you can select which employee you wish to issue a P45 to. Simple highlight the employee and click next. You will then be presented with the next screen in the terminate employment process as shown below:


Terminating Employment: Finalise Employee's Details

In this step you must confirm that all wages have been entered into the payroll for the employee you are terminating, including any taxable lump sums to be paid on termination. You will not be allowed to continue with the termination of this employee unless you have paid all the wages for this employee and selected Yes for this option shown on the screen above.

You also must enter the amount of any taxable lump sum paid to this employee upon the termination of his employment.

Finally you must enter the Date that the employee leaves your employment and is issued with his P45. You will not be allowed to continue with the termination of this employee unless you enter a valid date in this field.

When you have these details entered, click next and you will be present with the final screen in the terminate employment process as shown below:


Terminating Employment: Click Finish to Complete Termination

Finally you must click the Finish button to complete the termination of this employee. You can use the back button to return to the previous screens if you need to change any details entered. You can also click close to cancel the termination of this employees employment.

Once you click finish the employees employment will be terminate and the above screen will close. You will notice also that the employees name will no longer be listed in the "Current" list of employees. But if you click on the Previous Tab you will see his name listed there as shown below:


Terminating Employment: Previous Employees