Need Business Advice

I have been unable to find a quality employee to hire and so to help out my current employees we have been getting day laborers and paying them out of our petty cash fund. My question is can I use this as an expense to write off and if so what do I code it as? What would you list the expense as for accounting purposes? I don't want to be paying in cash and then not be able to list it as a company expense.





Thanks!!