Leaver wizard - gardening leave - mark as leaver immediately should be an option (i.e. mark as a leaver on their final working day)

We have a leaver whose last working day was the same day they resigned. The decision was made to place them on immediate gardening leave from that date until the end of their three-month notice period.

In the Leavers Wizard, we entered:

• Final Working Date: 11/08/2026

• Final Employment Date: 11/11/2026

This correctly calculated the remaining holiday entitlement due to be paid with the employee's final salary.

However, we also needed to mark the employee as a leaver immediately in order to trigger the offboarding process and associated tasks for other departments. When attempting to do so, the system displayed an error stating that the Final Employment Date is in the future. There is currently no option for an administrator to override this validation or provide a justification.

As a result:

• The employee was not included on the leavers report.

• Incorrect leaver information was sent to payroll (this would also affect customers using PayCircle payroll).

• A supplemental notification had to be sent manually after HR identified the omission.

This also creates a significant information security risk. We need offboarding tasks to be triggered on the employee's final working day, not their final employment date, to ensure:

• System and software access is removed immediately.

• Company equipment is returned promptly.

• Security and compliance obligations, including ISO 27001 requirements, are met.

Requested enhancement:

1. Allow offboarding workflows to be triggered from the Final Working Date.

2. Continue to calculate holiday entitlement using the Final Employment Date.

3. Provide visibility of leavers in reports from their Final Working Date, even where employment continues for notice pay or gardening leave.

This would support organisations that place employees on gardening leave while ensuring accurate payroll calculations, timely offboarding, and compliance with information security requirements.

Impact is medium as we are a mid size company and don't have that may leavers this affects but as we grow the issue will grow and it will become a significant data security issue if not addressed.