Lean controllers/business logic on services and filtering, sorting, pagination methods on controllers

I'm currently reading about "Lean controllers"/"Business logic on services" and trying to refactor a legacy code. However I am struggling to apply what is taught in the tutorials on real code.

Online examples are simple. But in real code, I have controllers that need to use filtering, sorting, filtering, sorting, pagination (and the fact that some of these elements are part of the Eloquent query makes me even more stuck):

Legacy code

class EmployeeController extends Controller
{
    public function index(Request $request)
    {
        $employeesQuery = Employee::with(['gender', 'birthState', 'documentType', 'maritalStatus', 'addressState', 'user']);

        //filters
        $filters = ModelFilterHelpers::buildFilters($request, Employee::$acceptedFilters);
        $employeesQuery = $employeesQuery->AcceptRequest(Employee::$acceptedFilters)->filter();

        //sort
        $employeesQuery = $employeesQuery->sortable(['updated_at' => 'desc']);

        //get paginate and add querystring on paginate links
        $employees = $employeesQuery->paginate(10);
        $employees->withQueryString();

        return view('employee.index', compact('employees', 'filters'))->with('i', (request()->input('page', 1) - 1) * 10);
    }

Keeping everything together within just one service function feels wrong to me and separating into other functions seems complex to me.

What I have so far is:

App\Http\Controllers\EmployeeController.php

class EmployeeController extends Controller
{
    public function index(Request $request)
    {
        //filters
        $filters = ModelFilterHelpers::buildFilters($request, Employee::$acceptedFilters);
        
        $employees = EmployeeService::getEmployees();

        return view('employee.index', compact('employees', 'filters'))->with('i', (request()->input('page', 1) - 1) * 10);
    }

App\Services\EmployeeService.php

class EmployeeService
{
    public static function getEmployees() : LengthAwarePaginator
    {
        $employeesQuery = Employee::with(['gender', 'birthState', 'documentType', 'maritalStatus', 'addressState', 'user']);

        $employeesQuery = $employeesQuery->AcceptRequest(Employee::$acceptedFilters)->filter();

        //sort
        $employeesQuery = $employeesQuery->sortable(['updated_at' => 'desc']);

        //get paginate and add querystring on paginate links
        $employees = $employeesQuery->paginate(10);

        return $employees->withQueryString();
    }

So I ask:

• Is this separation correct?
• Is it OK have this filtering, sorting, pagination in one service method?