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# How to terminate staff on payroll?


### ${color}[#696969](How to Remove Staff from Payroll)

###### ${color}[#696969](Whether you're ending employment, pausing employment, or restructuring your team, EasyTeam offers several ways to manage staff removal from payroll while preserving important historical data.)

${color}[#696969](When terminating and removing staff members, it's important to remember you must keep a detailed backup of the staff member's payroll history, paid and unpaid work time, and eligibility for tips and commissions.)

#### ${color}[#696969](Terminating Staff on Payroll)

➡️ ${color}[#696969](Go to the )${color}[#696969](**Staff**)${color}[#696969]( page and select the staff member.)

➡️ ${color}[#696969](Scroll to )${color}[#696969](**Payroll Profile**)${color}[#696969]( and click )${color}[#696969](**Edit Payroll Profile**)${color}[#696969](.)

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➡️ ${color}[#696969](Click )${color}[#696969](**Terminate Employee**)${color}[#696969](.)

➡️ ${color}[#696969](Choose a termination date and reason.)

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${color}[#696969](💡 You can continue including this employee in payroll runs until their termination date. Be sure to include any notice period in the termination date.)

| ${color}[#696969](Termination preserves the employee's Easyteam profile and historical data, allowing them to maintain access to other features like time clock or timesheets.)

${color}[#696969](💡 Remember: You're only charged for employees who receive payroll in a specific month. Consider not including this employee in payroll runs instead of termination if you want to keep them active in your payroll account.)

#### ${color}[#696969](Reactivating Terminated Staff)

${color}[#696969](To reactivate a terminated employee, simply invite them to payroll again.)

#### ${color}[#696969](How to remove staff completely from EasyTeam?)

${color}[#696969](For staff members who have been active on EasyTeam Payroll, complete removal requires termination first and a backup of their data.)

|| ${color}[#696969](Important: Please contact our support team to proceed with permanent deletion of staff members that have any payroll history.)

#### ${color}[#696969](Temporarily removing Staff from future payroll runs)

${color}[#696969](To remove staff from future payroll runs while keeping their payroll profile active:)

➡️ ${color}[#696969](Navigate to )${color}[#696969](**Payroll**)${color}[#696969](.)

➡️ ${color}[#696969](Select )${color}[#696969](**Business Payroll Profile**)${color}[#696969]( then )${color}[#696969](**Pay Groups**)${color}[#696969](.)

➡️ ${color}[#696969](Remove the staff member from relevant pay groups.)

${color}[#696969](💡 When you remove a staff member from pay groups, they won't appear in your future payroll runs. We won't charge you a payroll seat for a specific staff member in months when they don't receive any payments. See) [Easyteam Payroll Pricing](/en/article/easyteam-payroll-run-payroll-in-minutes-directly-in-shopify-pos-dhjw5e/). ${color}[#696969](You can easily add the staff members back to pay groups later.)
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| ${color}[#696969](Need help with staff removal or have questions about managing terminated employees? Reach out via the chat bubble in the bottom right corner) ❤️