What is a Termination Reason?

When an employee ceases employment they need to be terminated within the People and Payroll solution. A Termination Reason is the Reason their employment ended, for example resigned – relocation or dismissed – Performance.
This document outlines how to set up the different Reasons that will then be available for selection when an employee is terminated.

How to set up Termination Reasons

Fig.1 ‘Termination Reasons’ within administration

Click ‘Create Termination Reason’ in the top right corner of the screen and the set up box will appear. Enter in the description of the Reason, for example ‘Resigned – Relocation’, as seen in Fig.2.

Fig.2 Termination Reason set up screen

Reemploy states whether or not the employee can be rehired in the portal at a later stage. The reemploy option in the termination reason set up automatically feeds through to an employee’s termination details page.
So for example if Re-employ in the termination reason is set to ‘no’ the termination details will automatically show Re-employ ‘No’ as seen in Fig.3.
An example of a termination reason that would potentially be set to ‘no’ might be ‘dismissed – theft’.
Please Note If users should be given the option when terminating an employee, set the Reemploy in the reason to ‘none specified’, as seen in Fig.2.

Fig.3 Termination Screen automatically showing Re-employ ‘no’

The setting ‘exclude from turnover report’ states whether or not a Termination recorded under this Reason should be excluded from the figures when reporting on turnover.
An example of a termination reason that would potentially not be included in turnover might be ‘Duplicate employee’.

Fig.4 Turnover report which Termination Reasons can be excluded from

The setting called ‘Pay £1 holiday on Termination’, as seen in Fig.2 will pay an employee £1 holiday in their last payslip.
As long as this is written into an employee’s contract, £1 holiday can be paid in certain circumstances such as an employee is dismissed through gross misconduct. But this would have to be an internal business decision.