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Contractors

Schedule a contractor rehire

Purpose

Schedules a contractor rehire for a given date. Creates a new employment record for the contractor.

Prerequisites

Before calling this endpoint:

  1. The contractor must be inactive (previously dismissed)
  2. The contractor must not already have an upcoming employment

Related webhooks

  • contractor.reactivated: Fires when the contractor becomes active again (on or after start_date)

scope: contractors:write

post/v1/contractors/{contractor_uuid}/rehire

Path parameters

contractor_uuidstring required

The UUID of the contractor

Headers

X-Gusto-API-Version'2026-06-15'

Determines the date-based API version associated with your API call. If none is provided, your application's minimum API version is used.

Request body

start_datestring date required

The rehire date

Example request

{
  "start_date": "2025-07-01"
}

Response

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