Help with removing an Apple ID

Hello all, I hope you can help
At my place of work, we have a business contract with Vodafone, which means we get discounts on Iphone 4s through them to give out to employee's as work phones
We have had someone who has left the company and handed in their Iphone 4 - however when trying to reset the phone, I'm met at the setup screen with 'this phone was set up with the apple id xxxxx, enter the password to continue'
Now of course, I don't know the persons ID, and we're no longer able to contact them
So is there any way around this?

No, no way around it. You've run into Activation Lock, a security feature designed to prevent activation of lost and stolen iDevices without the original owner's credentials.
Read about it here, and you will see the instructions on what the former employee needs to do to free the device for activation.

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