Amendments & offboarding
Amendments & offboarding
This guide covers employer-initiated changes to active EOR employment, including contract amendments, expense adjustments, draft contract management, termination, and employer-side resignation handling.
All endpoints require an admin-scoped API token. See Getting started for authentication and environment setup. For creating contracts, see Hiring & contracts. For worker-initiated amendment signing and resignation submission, see Worker self-service.
All amendment and termination operations are legally binding. Test every flow in the Deel sandbox environment before connecting to production data.
Contract amendments
Amendments change the terms of an active EOR contract, covering salary, job title, seniority, working hours, employment type, or other fields. After creation, an amendment enters a review and signing flow involving both the employer and the employee.
Check amendable fields
Before rendering an amendment form, retrieve the validation settings for the contract to understand which fields can be changed and what constraints apply.
Use this response to determine which fields to expose in the UI and what validation to apply client-side before submission.
Create an amendment
Include only the fields you want to change; all amendment fields are optional. Always include effective_date. Amendable fields include: salary, job_title, seniority_id, employment_type, work_hours_per_week, end_date, scope, fixed_adjustments, and variable_compensation.
After creation, the amendment enters review and signing. Both you and the worker must sign before it activates.
To cancel a pending amendment, use DELETE /eor/contracts/{contract_id}/amendments/{amendment_id}. Cancellation is only possible before all parties have signed; once fully signed, the amendment cannot be reversed through this endpoint.
Expense adjustments
Use adjustments to submit expense reimbursements on behalf of employees. Each adjustment is applied to the employee’s next payroll cycle.
Adjustments cover employer-initiated expense submissions. Worker-initiated expense requests are handled separately through the worker-side API surface.
Draft contract management
Before a contract is signed, it remains in draft state and can be updated or delayed. These operations are only available before the signing phase begins.
Use the delay endpoint to push back a start date after the contract is created but before it enters the signing phase.
Offboarding
Terminations require country-specific validation before submission. Retrieve required fields and check for restricted dates before presenting the offboarding form; an incomplete or date-restricted submission returns a 422 that blocks the flow.
Get required information
Use this response to render the correct form fields for the employment country before submitting the termination request.
Check restricted dates
Restricted dates include payroll cutoff dates and statutory restricted periods. Validate the proposed end date against these before allowing submission.
Employee-initiated resignation
When the worker submits a resignation via Worker self-service, review the employee’s accrued paid time off before offboarding can proceed.
This step is required before the worker can sign their resignation letter and before offboarding progresses.
Key webhook events
See the Webhooks guide for event payload structure and signature verification.
