This article explains how Global Payroll clients can initiate terminations for multiple direct employees at the same time.

If the client only wants to offboard an individual employee, please see: How To Terminate A Global Payroll Direct Employee

Before you begin:

The process of termination is commonly referred to as "offboarding". An employee cannot be set for termination if a termination request is already in process.

Please review Mutual Termination Agreements, which is a common practice that enables an employer to terminate an employee while minimizing the risk of litigation.

Because Deel is not the employer of record with the Global Payroll hiring model, the client is personally are responsible for communicating terminations to the direct employees.

If a different HRIS is integrated with the client's Deel account, they will first terminate the worker in the third party HRIS system and then follow our email link to request the termination on Deel.

✅ Step 1 - Terminate workers

Select the (1) People icon on the home page, then click (2) More Actions and select Terminate Workers

✅ Step 2 - Download Template

Select all of the workers will be terminated. Then click Download Template to receive an XLS file.

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✅ Step 3 - Edit XLS file

Fill out the XLS file with the required termination details, such as:

Last day of work: This is the last day that the employee will be performing their job. Usually, their access is removed on this day.
Desired contract end date: The last legal day of employment. The employee will be paid until this date even if they are no longer performing their job.
Note: The end date of GP contracts can be backdated.
Reason for termination: The client will state if the termination is voluntary (like a resignation) or involuntary, and include additional details.
Offboarding payments: We will calculate how many unused PTO days need to be paid out to the employee; and also the amount of mandatory severance to be paid.

Deel may adjust the requested contract end date due after an internal review of local labor laws.

The client is personally responsible for communicating the termination to the direct employee.

✅ Step 4 - Upload XLS file of workers to terminate

After the client has entered the termination details in the document, select Upload Termination Details and then upload the XLS file.

Deel will first validate the uploaded data. Clients can also review the fields before officially requesting the terminations.

It will take a few minutes to validate the file. If errors are discovered, we will explain where in the file the errors are located that should be corrected.

✅ Step 5 - Submit mass termination request

Please carefully review the list of names that will soon be terminated.

Our payroll group will review the details of the request, the notice period as stated on the employee contracts, and local labor laws.

Click the box to confirm that the client has reviewed the data, and click Submit.