To change an employee's status from full time or part time to casual, follow the steps below.
Change the employment status
To change the employment status from Full Time to Casual:
Go to Payroll, Masterfiles, Employee Details, Maintain.
Page Down to Pay Details.
Press F2 in Employment Status.
Change it from Full Time to Casual.
Accept (F9) to save the changes.
Pay out unused Annual Leave
The employee is entitled to have annual leave accrued paid out at this point. The ATO states that leave should be paid as leave cashout in this instance. See:
📌 Note: Long service leave should continue to accrue for the employee.
Remove the Leave accruals from the leave table
Once the employee's leave has been paid out, set the Sick and Annual Leave Accrual codes in the Employee Masterfile to NIL. This will stop further leave accruing.
Go to Payroll, Masterfiles, Employee Details, Maintain.
Page Down to Leave.
View the Annual and Sick leave lines on the Leave Table.
Make sure Entitlement Owing, Pro-Rata Owing, Contingent Owing is set to 0.
Change the Leave Table Codes to NIL.
Accept (F9) to save the changes.