Sometimes things change when it comes to employee contracts. So whether it is promoting someone to a new role and salary band, increasing their holiday days, or more, you can do this entirely via the Deel API.

Clients can make amendments to	Clients can not make amendments to
✅ Job title	✘ Country of tax residence
✅ Payment details (rate, invoice cycle, payment due date)	✘ Start date (original start date must remain but an amendment may be added)
✅ Contract currency	✘ Contract type
✅ Work schedule	✘ Client entity information
✅ Scope of work
✅ End of contract (end date and notice period)
✅ Special clauses
✅ Employee personal details (full legal name, passport number, etc.)

Amend a contract

Step 1: Amend contract

You can amend payment, job, or personal information.

Please see below an example of changing the seniority level of an existing contract:

curl --request POST \
     --url 'https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/v2/contracts/37nex2x/amendments' \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'authorization: Bearer {token}' \
     --header 'content-type: application/json' \
     --data '
{
     "data": {
         "effective_date": "2023-01-01",
         "seniority_id": 2
     }
}
'

Below you can find another example of changing the payment information of an existing contract:

curl --location -g --request POST 'https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/v2/contracts/{{contractId}}/amendments' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer {token}' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
  "data": {
    "amount": 123,
    "scale": "daily",
    "effective_date": "2023-01-01",
    "frequency": "monthly",
    "cycle_end": 21,
    "cycle_end_type": "DAY_OF_MONTH",
    "payment_due_type": "REGULAR",
    "payment_due_days": 0,
    "pay_before_weekends": true
  }
}'

Step 2: Sign contract amendment

After you have amended the contract, you can sign the contract using the sign contract endpoint.

Step 3: Send the amended contract to the worker

When you have signed the amended contract, you will need to send a counterpart document to sign to your employee.

curl --location -g --request POST 'https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/v2/contracts/{{contractId}}/invitations' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer {token}' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
  "data": {
    "email": "{contractor_email}",
    "message": "Please review and sign the amended contract."
  }
}'

Finally, Deel will countersign both documents and the amendment will be active on the designated date.

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Please note that some changes may require an increase in deposit such as increasing the employee's salary or increasing the number of holiday days they will receive. In these situations, a member of the Deel team will reach out to explain the required next steps.