Recover Former Employee, as the name suggests, means you can recover the details of a former employee. This function can be used in the following way :-
1) A recruitment agency can recover a former employee's personal details without having to re-key in all the employee's personal details again.
2) If a former employee re-joins your company, you can use this function to recover all his/her personal details Recover employee only allows you to recover the personal details of an employee. All the pay data cannot be recovered. Please also note that you need to enter the P45 or the Starter Checklist details as appropriate for the recovered former employee.

To recover a former employee, Click on Former Employee Recover from the Employee drop down menu. Please go through the instructions before continuing with the Recover and click on continu. Now click on Recover link. Please note you can only recover the personal details of the employee you wish to Recover, However you have to key-in all other payrun related details of that employee. Please note that the old Works No / Payroll ID of the employee will not be recovered. You need to enter new Works No / Payroll ID for the employee. Enter rest of the details and select the option “Recover employee without a form P45(3) and requires a Starter Checklist ” to enter his Starter Checklist details. Enter the employee Starter Checklist details and click on the Recover button to recover the employee.