2.  Transaction Reason - select the reason for the separation: terminated, resigned, retired, abandoned the job.

3.  Effective Date - this is the date on which the separation becomes effective - for monthly-paid employee, it is used to calculate the pay for the employee’s last month e.g. if an employee was separated with an effective date 5 days before the end of the pay cycle, the system will pro-rate the employee's salary and automatically  send this amount to the Cycle Changes for processing.  For weekly-paid employees, the amount of hours/days to be paid would have to be entered.

4.  Pay To -  this date is simply for record keeping purposes and does not affect the employee’s salary.

5.  Termination Type -  the options are terminated, resigned, retired, abandoned the job.

6.  Stop Benefits -  only selected if the Benefit Plans are in use.

7.   Rehire - used for record-keeping purposes to indicate whether the employee can be rehired..