Cease a Foreign Employee and reinstate as a Working Holiday Maker (WHM)

!If pay runs have already been processed for this employee, you will need to seek advice from your Accountant or Bookkeeper regarding their tax liability, and discuss with your employee as it may mean they require additional tax to be deducted to ensure a tax bill is not received. There is no way to ‘fix’ the previously posted pay runs, however, you can change the employee so they are correctly set moving forward.

1. Ensure you have registered with the ATO here before your first payment to a working holiday maker.
2. Check your worker has a visa subclass 417, 457 or 462 using the Visa Entitlement Verification Online (VEVO) service here
3. Set that you are Registered as an employer of Working Holiday Makers in your Company Details, read here
4. Read here to manually cease (terminate) the required Employee/s.
5. Read here to reinstate the required Employee/s.
6. Read here to change the Employees Payee Type.