Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates are logged below, with the most recent updates at the top.

The new functionality referenced in this document may not be immediately available to you if your organization has chosen not to receive optional monthly updates.  Rest assured you will receive the new functionality in the next quarterly update which is required and cumulative. Quarterly updates are applied in February, May, August, and November. As a one-off exception the February 2017 Quarterly update will be applied in March 2017.

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Date	Feature	Notes
The following features are included in the May Quarterly update.
27 APR 2018	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United Kingdom: P11D- Employee Benefits and Expenses Reporting	Delivered new feature in update 17, the May quarterly update.
27 APR 2018	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United States: Tax Withholding Card Enhancement for Guam	Delivered new feature in update 17, the May quarterly update.
27 APR 2018	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United States: e-IWO Inbound Process Enhancement	Delivered new feature in update 17, the May quarterly update.
30 MAR 2018	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United Kingdom: Gender Pay Gap Reporting	Delivered new feature in update 16 (April), which will also be included in the May quarterly update.
30 MAR 2018	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United Kingdom: Scottish Income Tax Rates and Bands	Delivered new feature in update 16 (April), which will also be included in the May quarterly update.
02 MAR 2018	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United States: e-IWO Audit Report Enhancement	Delivered new feature in update 15 (March), which will also be included in the May quarterly update.
02 MAR 2018	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United Kingdom: Legislative Updates	Delivered new feature in update 15 (March), which will also be included in the May quarterly update.
02 MAR 2018	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United Kingdom: Support for XML Format Submission for all RTI Outgoing Files	Delivered new feature in update 15 (March), which will also be included in the May quarterly update.
02 MAR 2018	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United Kingdom: Full Payment Submission (FPS) Breakdown to Smaller Files	Delivered new feature in update 15 (March), which will also be included in the May quarterly update.
The following features are included in the February Quarterly update.
02 FEB 2018	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United States: e-IWO Enhanced Search Capabilities	Delivered new feature in the February quarterly update.
02 FEB 2018	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United States: Third-Party Periodic Tax Filing Extract Inclusion of Payroll Frequency	Delivered new feature in the February quarterly update.
02 FEB 2018	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United States: Involuntary Deduction Fee Priority	Delivered new feature in the February quarterly update.
02 FEB 2018	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United Kingdom: Legislative Updates for Tax Year 2018-19	Delivered new feature in the February quarterly update.
02 FEB 2018	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United Kingdom: XML format for RTI Outgoing Files	Delivered new feature in the February quarterly update.
02 FEB 2018	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United Kingdom: Benefits in Kind – Car and Car Fuel Rates for Tax Year 2018-19	Delivered new feature in the February quarterly update.
02 FEB 2018	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for Canada: Reporting Mode: Draft and Final Mode for End-of-Year Reports Process	Delivered new feature in update 13 (January), which will also be included in the February quarterly update.
02 FEB 2018	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United States: Involuntary Deduction Disposable Income Recalculation	Delivered new feature in update 10 (October), which was in the November quarterly update.
05 JAN 2018	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United Kingdom: XML Message Retrieval Support from HMRC Data Provisioning System	Delivered new feature in update 13 (January), which will also be included in the February quarterly update.
05 JAN 2018	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United Kingdom: Processing Benefits in Kind Through Payroll	Delivered new feature in update 13 (January), which will also be included in the February quarterly update.
05 JAN 2018	Oracle Fusion Global Payroll: New Configuration Options for Personal Payment Method Page	Delivered new feature in update 13 (January), which will also be included in the February quarterly update.
05 JAN 2018	Oracle Fusion Benefits for the United States: Affordable Care Act Override Upload (United States Customers only)	Delivered new feature in update 1 (February 2017).
08 DEC 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United States: New York Family Leave Insurance Support	Delivered new feature in the Statutory Update 12.2 (December), which will also be included in the February quarterly update.
08 DEC 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United States: Guam Support	Delivered new feature in the Statutory Update 12.2 (December), which will also be included in the February quarterly update.
08 DEC 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United States: Run US Tax Balance Adjustment Process	Delivered new feature in the Statutory Update 12.2 (December), which will also be included in the February quarterly update.
08 DEC 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United States: Enhanced Year-Begin Process	Delivered new feature in the Statutory Update 12.2 (December), which will also be included in the February quarterly update.
08 DEC 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United States: Enhanced Ohio School District Tax Calculation	Delivered new feature in the Statutory Update 12.2 (December), which will also be included in the February quarterly update.
08 DEC 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United States: Puerto Rico Young Entrepreneurs Act	Delivered new feature in the Statutory Update 12.2 (December), which will also be included in the February quarterly update.
08 DEC 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for Canada: Employee Active Payroll Balance Report	Delivered new feature in the Statutory Update 12.2 (December), which will also be included in the February quarterly update.
01 DEC 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United States: Third-Party Periodic Tax Filing Audit Report Detail Enhancements	Delivered new feature in update 12 (December), which will also be included in the February quarterly update.
01 DEC 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United States: Third-Party Quarterly Tax Filing Extract Enhancement for Amended Quarter Filings	Delivered new feature in update 12 (December), which will also be included in the February quarterly update.
01 DEC 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United States: Third-Party Quarterly Tax Filing Extract Vendor Enhancements for Fourth Quarter	Delivered new feature in update 12 (December), which will also be included in the February quarterly update.
01 DEC 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United States: Employee Active Balance Report Enhancements to Include New Balances	Delivered new feature in update 12 (December), which will also be included in the February quarterly update.
01 DEC 2017	Oracle Fusion Global Payroll Interface: Deleted Data Report	Delivered new feature in update 12 (December), which will also be included in the February quarterly update.
The following features are included in the November Quarterly update.
03 NOV 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United States: New Ninety day Balance Dimension	Delivered new feature in update 11, the November quarterly update.
03 NOV 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United States: Electronic Income Withholding Orders Reference Code Enhancement	Delivered new feature in update 11, the November quarterly update.
03 NOV 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United States: Involuntary Deductions Processing Fee Enhancement	Delivered new feature in update 11, the November quarterly update.
06 OCT 2017	Oracle HCM Cloud Global Payroll: Enable Reports to Process Following an Errored Task	Delivered new feature in update 10 (October), which will also be included in the November quarterly update.
06 OCT 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United States: Electronic Income Withholding Orders Inbound Process Enhancements	Delivered new feature in update 10 (October), which will also be included in the November quarterly update.
01 SEP 2017	Oracle Fusion Compensation Management: View Salary Components	Updated document. Revised feature description.
The following features are included in the August Quarterly update.
04 AUG 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for Canada: Absence Elements: Discretionary and Final Disbursement Absence Payments	Delivered new feature in the August quarterly update.
04 AUG 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United Kingdom: Court Orders – DEO Reference Number Output on BACS File	Delivered new feature in update 7 (July), which will also be included in the August quarterly update.
04 AUG 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United Kingdom: Payroll Validation Report – Change to Excel Output	Delivered new feature in update 7 (July), which will also be included in the August quarterly update.
04 AUG 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for Qatar: Payroll Base Data	Delivered new feature in update 7 (July), which will also be included in the August quarterly update.
04 AUG 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for Qatar: Payroll Data Capture	Delivered new feature in update 7 (July), which will also be included in the August quarterly update.
04 AUG 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for Qatar: Automatic Calculation Card Creation	Delivered new feature in update 7 (July), which will also be included in the August quarterly update.
04 AUG 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for Qatar: Social Insurance Calculations	Delivered new feature in update 7 (July), which will also be included in the August quarterly update.
04 AUG 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for Qatar: Gratuity Calculations	Delivered new feature in update 7 (July), which will also be included in the August quarterly update.
04 AUG 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for Qatar: Involuntary Deduction Element Template	Delivered new feature in update 7 (July), which will also be included in the August quarterly update.
04 AUG 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for Qatar: Statement of Earnings	Delivered new feature in update 7 (July), which will also be included in the August quarterly update.
07 JUL 2017	Oracle Fusion Compensation Management: Salary Range Differentials	Delivered new feature in update 7 (July), which will also be included in the August quarterly update.
07 JUL 2017	Oracle Fusion Global Payroll Interface: Integration with ADP Global Payroll	Delivered new feature in update 7 (July), which will also be included in the August quarterly update.
07 JUL 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United States: Involuntary Deductions Subprocessing Order Defaults	Delivered new feature in update 7 (July), which will also be included in the August quarterly update.
07 JUL 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United Kingdom: Test Mode for Start of Year and Tax Code Uplift Processes	Updated document. Added new feature to update 6 (June), which will also be included in the August quarterly update.
07 JUL 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United Kingdom: Interchange Reference Control Number for Incoming Messages	Updated document. Added new feature to update 6 (June), which will also be included in the August quarterly update.
07 JUL 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United Kingdom: Unique Reporting Reference for New Court Orders	Updated document. Added new feature to update 6 (June), which will also be included in the August quarterly update.
07 JUL 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United Kingdom: Statutory Sick Pay for Employees Working Overnight Shifts	Updated document. Added new feature to update 6 (June), which will also be included in the August quarterly update.
07 JUL 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United Kingdom: Configure Average Weekly Earnings	Updated document. Added new feature to update 6 (June), which will also be included in the August quarterly update.
02 JUN 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United States: Enhanced Deductions At Time of Writ Support	Updated document. Added new feature to update 6 (June), which will also be included in the August quarterly update.
02 JUN 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United States: Enhanced Form 1494 Exemption Amount Derivation	Updated document. Added new feature to update 6 (June), which will also be included in the August quarterly update.
02 JUN 2017	Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence: Compensation Manager List	Updated document. Added new feature to update 6 (June), which will also be included in the August quarterly update.
02 JUN 2017	Oracle Fusion Compensation Management: Manage Progression Grade Ladder Formula Selection Filter	Updated document. Added new feature to update 6 (June), which will also be included in the August quarterly update.
The following features are included in the May Quarterly update.
02 JUN 2017	Oracle Fusion Global Payroll: Payroll Costing Report by Element Classification	Delivered new feature in the May quarterly update.
The following features are included in the March Quarterly update.
02 JUN 2017	Oracle Fusion Compensation Management: New Attributes and Performance Enhancements for Compensation OTBI	Delivered new feature the March quarterly update.
17 MAR 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for Canada: Involuntary Deductions: Enhanced Protected Pay Rules	Delivered new feature the March quarterly update.
17 MAR 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for Canada: Reporting Information Card	Delivered new feature the March quarterly update.
The following features were delivered via monthly updates.
17 MAR 2017	Oracle Fusion Global Payroll: Manage BackFeed Data	Document updated. Added feature which was delivered in the base release.
14 FEB 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United States: Electronic Income Withholding Orders (e-IWO) Inbound Process	Delivered new feature in update 1 (February), which will also be included in the March quarterly update.
14 FEB 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United Kingdom: Statutory Sick Pay	Delivered new feature in update 1 (February), which will also be included in the March quarterly update.
14 FEB 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United Kingdom: Statutory Adoption Pay	Delivered new feature in update 1 (February), which will also be included in the March quarterly update.
14 FEB 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United Kingdom: Statutory Paternity Pay	Delivered new feature in update 1 (February), which will also be included in the March quarterly update.
14 FEB 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United Kingdom: Statutory Maternity Pay	Delivered new feature in update 1 (February), which will also be included in the March quarterly update.
14 FEB 2017	Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United Kingdom: Shared Parental Leave	Delivered new feature in update 1 (February), which will also be included in the March quarterly update.
14 FEB 2017	Oracle Fusion Global Payroll: Manage BackFeed Data	Delivered new feature in update 1 (February), which will also be included in the March quarterly update.
16 JAN 2017	Oracle Fusion Benefits: Benefits Billing	Document updated. Added feature which was delivered in the base release.
05 DEC 2016		Created initial document.

Overview

Oracle HCM Cloud release documents are delivered in five functional groupings:

Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

• HCM Cloud Common Features (This document pertains to all HCM applications. It is the base human resource information for all products and HCM Tools).
• Global Human Resources Cloud (Global Human Resources contains the base application in which other application use for common data such as workforce structures and person information. Regardless of what products you have implemented you may want to see the new features for Global Human Resources that could impact your products).

NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for the base Talent and Compensation standalone applications.

Optional Reading for HCM Products (Depending on what products are in your cloud service):

• Talent Management Cloud (All Talent applications)
• Workforce Rewards Cloud (Compensation, Benefits, Payroll and Global Payroll Interface)
• Workforce Management Cloud (Absence Management and Time and Labor)

Additional Optional Reading:

• Common Technologies and User Experience (This documents the common features across all Cloud applications and is not specific to HCM)

NOTE: All of these documents can be found on the Oracle Help Center at: https://cloud.oracle.com/saasreadiness/hcm under Human Capital Management Release Readiness.

Compensation

Compensation and Total Compensation Statement

Oracle Fusion Compensation enables your organization to plan, allocate, and communicate compensation using the most complete solution in the market. Make better business decisions using embedded analytics and a total compensation view of workers, regardless of geographic location or pay package components.

View Salary Components

View salary components from compensation history, when a worker’s salary basis is configured to use components to itemize the salary adjustment. Previously, it did not display components when a worker’s salary basis used components.

Route Individual Compensation Approvals Based on Salary

Route approvals for individual compensation awards using the attributes of the worker’s salary record in the approval rule.

Workforce Compensation Notification Personalization

Personalize workforce compensation notifications. Administrators can now using the Oracle page Composer, selectively show and hide various components of the notification, including fields, labels, and regions. They can also edit labels, colors, and the page layout and add custom text and external links to the page.

Manage Progression Grade Ladder Formula Selection Filter

Streamline the setup process when using formulas within progression grade ladders. The list of values associated with formula fields is now filtered by formula type in the Manage Progression Grade Ladders page. The date formula fields show all formulas defined as type Salary Progression Date Determination Rule. The salary calculation rule field shows all formulas defined as type Salary Progression Rate Determination Rule.

Salary Range Differentials

Create salary rate differentials in the compensation work area. Configure the salary range differential profile by location and vary it over time using date effectivity.

Benefits

Benefits

Oracle Fusion Benefits is a complete, configurable and flexible global solution that enables organizations to successfully evolve and adapt to the unique needs of their workforce. The solution enables setup of traditional 'one-size fits all' plans to highly complex plans that selectively target different workforce segments with different benefit packages. Self-service capabilities present the user with an out of the box intuitive guided enrollment process with contextual information and embedded analytics.

Benefits Billing

Enable your benefits administrators to bill retirees, dependents or employees on unpaid leave of absence directly for benefit plan costs instead of charging through the payroll deduction process. Prepare and generate charges in bulk or individually, depending on the numbers involved. This flexibility enables administrators to generate the first charges for an individual. They can then ensure that the details are correct before handling all subsequent charges via the bulk processes.

Once payment is received you can record payments, including exact payments, under or over payments, and even several payments against the same bill. The application handles these different scenarios by subtracting or adding the under or overpaid amounts to the next charges and bill generated. The application settles the oldest bills first, and the highest cost option, which is most likely Medical, until it has allocated the payment made fully. You can even record payment without a bill being previously generated, and make manual adjustments.

Improved Self Service Benefits Pages

Help participants through the enrollments process more easily. Filters can be configured on train stops to enable participants to quickly see which plans and options are appropriate to them and hide the ones that aren't. Information icons are now available in each train stop to enable participants to make more in-depth enrollment decisions. Participants can also click the Select buttons or the triangular expansion widgets alongside the plan names to display any additional rates configured to help make selections. Participants can now more easily designate dependents and beneficiaries when making selections by making it a clear part of the selection process.

Benefits for the United States

Affordable Care Act Override Upload (United States Customers only)

Override or add missing values in the 1095-C report, in the United States, using the new ACA spreadsheet. You generate your 1095-C report for employees once a year, at the end of the year, but if you implemented Benefits midyear, a proportion of the data required for reporting might not be available. That’s because some of it may still exist in the legacy application. Using the new spreadsheet to override or add any values enables you to generate an up-to-date 1095-C report.

Payroll

Global Payroll

Oracle Fusion Global Payroll is a high-performance, graphical, rules-based payroll management application. It’s designed to keep pace with the changing needs of your enterprise and workforce in order to reduce setup costs, administration, and processing time. It operates globally and consistently in every country supported by Oracle. It uses a highly scalable processing engine that takes advantage of the features of the Oracle database for parallel processing, resulting in optimal performance. In countries with payroll extensions delivered and supported by Oracle, the application delivers the calculations, tax reporting, and regulatory rules required to accurately process payroll and remain in compliance.

Calculate Accrual Balances in a Payroll Flow

Streamline your end-to-end payroll flow by running the accrual process used by Absence Management as part of your payroll cycle. Add the Calculate Accruals and Balances task to your existing payroll flow. This automatic task will begin when the preceding task completes.

Manage BackFeed Data

On the Manage Payroll Interface Inbound Records page, you can:

• Add, view, edit, and delete information about payroll, payment, leave, and messages received from third-party payroll providers.
• Filter imported data.
• View the payslip data that includes third-party payslips.

Payroll Costing Report by Element Classification

Use primary element classification now included in the detail scope of the Payroll Costing Report output to verify costing by element classification.

Enable Reports to Process Following an Errored Task

Allow reports within a flow allow to process even if the proceeding task has errored.

New Configuration Options for Personal Payment Method Page

Use the Payroll User Interface Configuration formula type to display the Organization Payment Method list of values on the Personal Payment Method page and if required, limit the values available to employees when Personal Payment Methods are being created.

Payroll for Canada

Payroll for Canada supports country specific features and functions for Canada. It enables users to follow Canada’s business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

Involuntary Deductions: Enhanced Protected Pay Rules

Provide additional Protected Pay functionality to specify how the employee’s protected pay is calculated. The Protected Pay rules are configured on the involuntary deduction card for the employee. Protected Pay functionality for involuntary deductions was initially introduced in release 10, bundle 17. It was also previously enhanced in release 11, bundle 8. Several new rules are introduced with this release.

Reporting Information Card

Capture values required for the Record of Employment (ROE) on the reporting information card.

Global Absence Element Uptake

There is integration between the absence management system and payroll. The information passed from absences to payroll is used to calculate the absence payment in payroll.

Absence Elements: Discretionary and Final Disbursement Absence Payments

Select different options for taxation, EI allocation, and EI hours for discretionary and final disbursement payments.

Employee Active Payroll Balance Report 

• Run the Employee Active Payroll Balance report to reconcile your balances prior to periodic or year-end reporting. The Employee Active Payroll Balance Report displays current and year-to-date values for employee balances without the need to process the payroll archive. This report assists in determining if any tax balances are over the statutory limits and if any of the tax liability balances are improperly calculated. To assist with year-end reconciliation and balancing of your year-end box balance data, run this report throughout the year to make year-end balancing easier.

Reporting Mode: Draft and Final Mode for End-of-Year Reports Process

Use the Format parameter to run the year-end slips in draft or final mode. The mode applies to all year-end report types of T4, T4A, RL-1, and RL-2 and is available for the Original, Amended, and Cancelled Report Type options.

Payroll for China

Payroll for China supports country specific features and functions for China. It enables users to follow China’s business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

Nontaxable Employee and Employer Contribution Threshhold Amounts

Comply with the regulation on taxable social security contribution calculation in Shenzhen and Shanghai by capturing nontaxable employee and employer contribution threshold amounts and using them in the monthly individual income tax calculation.

Payroll for Kuwait

Payroll for Kuwait supports country specific features and functions for Kuwait. It enables users to follow Kuwait’s business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

Social Insurance 2015 Enhancement

Comply with legislative requirements. A new component for gratuity contributions has been added to the Social Insurance calculation. The additional employee contribution is applicable to all Kuwaiti workers employed in the private sector and, depending on hire date, some government sector workers. Employers can record whether or not to pay the gratuity amount due to an employee on termination. In addition, they can record whether an employee has received a gratuity payment in the past and the date that payment was received.

The payroll process uses this information to determine whether or not gratuity contributions are to be deducted as part of the Social Insurance calculation.

Electronic Fund Transfer Template Update

Comply with legislative requirements. The Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT) template now includes MOSAL ID and IBAN Number in compliance with banking regulations.

Payroll Cycle Flow Update

Ensure payroll processes are run in the correct order. Payroll Cycle is a global seeded payroll flow which enables you to run predefined payroll tasks in a predefined sequence for each payroll period, in a best practice flow. The payroll cycle flow has been amended so that the payroll archive is run prior to payment tasks.

Report 56 Enhancement

Comply with legislative requirements. The payroll archive and Report 56 have been enhanced to manage multiple payroll runs in the same period and report each employee only once.

Payroll for Qatar

Oracle Fusion HRMS (Qatar) supports country specific features and functions for Qatar. It enables users to follow US business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

Payroll Base Data

Create elements, appropriate for Qatar. The delivery of base payroll data specific to a Qatari payroll, that includes element classifications, balance categories, context usages, and dimension usage enables the use of the element template and associated objects.

Payroll Data Capture

Comply with legislative requirements. Calculation cards have been provided to capture the appropriate data for both social insurance and gratuity, at organization level, payroll statutory unit, and person level, payroll relationship.

Automatic Calculation Card Creation

Comply with legislative requirements. If your payroll product usage is set to Payroll or Payroll Interface, the Employee Social Insurance Details calculation card is created automatically as part of the new hire process or when you rehire an employee, and the Employee Gratuity Details calculation card is created automatically as part of the termination process.

Social Insurance Calculations

Comply with legislative requirements for the insurance protection extension to the citizens of the GCC countries.

Gratuity Calculations

Comply with legislative requirements for gratuity payments as described in Qatar Labour Law.

Involuntary Deduction Element Template

Comply with legislative requirements. Enable employers to create appropriate court order elements using the element template so court orders can be deducted from an employee, if required, and paid to the appropriate third party organization.

Statement of Earnings

Verify the payroll process with the online Statement of Earnings (SOE). Within payroll allow end-users to view all the relevant information for an individual employee payroll run or a prepayment in a single place. With the SOE, results can be easily viewed and verified.

Payroll for the United Kingdom

Oracle Fusion HRMS (UK) supports country specific features and functions for the UK. It enables users to follow US business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

Statutory Sick Pay

Manage the statutory entitlement, that is, the number of days of the absence, which are paid or unpaid. The predefined formulas provided are attached to an absence plan and absence type to calculate eligibility and entitlement to statutory absences and payment, if appropriate.

Statutory Adoption Pay

Manage the statutory entitlement, that is, the number of days of the absence which are paid or unpaid. The predefined formulas provided are attached to an absence plan and absence type to calculate eligibility and entitlement to statutory absences and payment if appropriate.

Statutory Paternity Pay

Manage the statutory entitlement, that is, the number of days of the absence which are paid or unpaid. The predefined formulas provided are attached to an absence plan and absence type to calculate eligibility and entitlement to statutory absences and payment, if appropriate.

Statutory Maternity Pay

Manage the statutory entitlement, that is, the number of days of the absence which are paid or unpaid. The predefined formulas provided are attached to an absence plan and absence type to calculate eligibility and entitlement to statutory absences and payment if appropriate.

Shared Parental Leave

Manage the statutory entitlement, that is, the number of days of the absence which are paid or unpaid. The predefined formulas provided are attached to an absence plan and absence type to calculate eligibility and entitlement to statutory absences and payment if appropriate.

Test Mode for Start of Year and Tax Code Uplift Processes

Run the Start of Year and Tax Code Uplift Process in Test mode. This enables you to view the updates to the employees’ tax code prior to running the processes in Live mode.

Interchange Reference Control Number for Incoming Messages

Validate the Interchange Control Reference (ICR) numbers during file upload for incoming HMRC messages such as P6 P6B EDI Upload Process, NINO verification Reply and Student Loan EDI Upload process.

This ensures that incoming messages are uploaded in the sequence in which they are issued by HMRC.

The Upload File task is no longer available from the flow. You must now upload them directly to the UCM server, and pass the Content ID as the parameter to the flow. You can also automatically initiate this from a service flow.

Unique Reporting Reference for New Court Orders

Use the Reference field to provide a unique reference and the Reporting Reference field to provide the reference provided by the court, if the court order reference provided by the court is the employee’s NI number. You cannot use the NI number as the Reference as it must be unique.

Statutory Sick Pay for Employees Working Overnight Shifts

Extend Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) to work with qualifying patterns that include overnight shifts. When a shift starts and ends on a different day, the day that counts for SSP payment is the day the shift started.

Configure Average Weekly Earnings

Create your own average weekly earnings formula to calculate average weekly earnings. Eligibility to statutory payments is based on the employee’s Average Weekly Earnings calculated over a certain period known as the relevant period. The definition of the relevant period varies depending on the type of absence. It is automatically calculated based on payroll balances. However, there are certain circumstances where this calculation cannot be performed, for example if do not have the required license for payroll application, or for new joiners who have not been processed in payroll during the relevant period. In such scenarios, you can create and plug-in your own user-defined formula to calculate the average weekly earnings.

Court Orders – DEO Reference Number Output on BACS File

Identify and allocate reference numbers for Deduction of Earnings Order (DEO) Court Orders third-party payments to enable payments to be appropriately allocated. The reference numbers appear in the appropriate field of the BACS payment file. When multiple DEO’s are present for one employee, the third party payee should be set up for each DEO.

Payroll Validation Report – Change to Excel Output

Enhanced Payroll Validation report that enables you to download report results as an Excel spreadsheet.

XML Message Retrieval Support from HMRC Data Provisioning System

Retrieve employee data from HMRC’s Data Provisioning Service (DPS) in XML format. You can retrieve all employee updates for P6, P6B, P9, and student loans SL1, SL2 notifications to update the employee records using this feature. You can also retrieve the NVREP messages generated as a result of either NINO verification requests or Full Payment Submission sent with missing or incorrect NI details. The process retrieves the XML messages, validates, and reports the inbound data. Once retrieved, you can upload the data to the calculation cards and employee records.

Processing Benefits in Kind Through Payroll

Capture data and process the benefits in kind through the payroll application as prescribed by the legislation.

The payroll process calculates the tax liability of a benefit for the tax period, instead of reporting it at the end of the tax year. You must confirm the benefits that you want to process through payroll in the tax year with the HMRC, and set up the benefits data for your employees.

A new Taxable Benefits calculation card is provided that includes calculation components related to each benefit. Use the appropriate calculation component and calculation component details to capture the benefits information required to calculate the tax liability.

Legislative Updates for Tax Year 2018-19

Comply with required legislative updates for the tax year 2018-19 including statutory thresholds for tax, national insurance, and student Loans.

XML format for RTI Outgoing Files

Generate and send your NINO Verification Request (NVREQ) file in XML format to HMRC.

Benefits in Kind – Car and Car Fuel Rates for Tax Year 2018-19

Process car and car fuel benefits calculations through payroll with the new rates effective from 6th April 2018.

Legislative Updates

Comply with legislative requirements for the tax year 2018-2019. The updates include: 

• Budget changes for Scottish Income Tax (SRIT) and statutory payment rates
• New threshold values for Pensions Automatic Enrolment
• New Real Time Information (RTI) processes for Full Payment Submission (FPS) and Employer Payment Summary (EPS) 
• New process for Earlier Year Updates (EYU) for tax year 2017-2018

Support for XML Format Submission for all RTI Outgoing Files

Submit all Real time Information (RTI) outgoing files in XML formal. You can use the new process to transmit files for Full Payment Submission (FPS), Employer Payment Summary (EPS), and Earlier Year Updates (EYU).

Full Payment Submission (FPS) Breakdown to Smaller Files

Create smaller files from Full Payment Submission (FPS) to aid the reconciliation of FPS submissions. You can use this to create FPS for a specific set of employees. It reduces the effort to review long audit reports produced for a large set of employees.

Gender Pay Gap Reporting

Extract data into a comma-separated values (CSV) file to enable calculation and reporting of Gender Pay Gap figures.

Scottish Income Tax Rates and Bands

Comply with legislative changes by the Scottish Government for the tax year 2018-2019 to calculate employee taxation accurately according to the latest changes recently announced for the tax bands.

P11D- Employee Benefits and Expenses Reporting

Generate and report P11D employee benefits and expenses statements as well as P11D(b) employer declaration information to submit to HMRC.

Payroll for the United States

Oracle Fusion HRMS (US) supports country specific features and functions for the US. It enables users to follow US business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

Electronic Income Withholding Orders Inbound Process

Automate the processing of involuntary support orders through the receipt and uptake of inbound electronic income withholding order (e-IWO) data files. You can now import the files received from the state authorities into a storage table. The new Run e-IWO Process validates the support orders, transfers the valid orders to the employees’ Involuntary Deductions cards and card components, and generates a report. This report consists of four Microsoft Excel worksheets: an overall summary, import details, audit listing of valid and transferred orders, and an exception listing of failed orders. An email notification notifies parties when the inbound process is completed.

Enhanced Deductions At Time of Writ Support

Enhance your federal tax levy configuration through new deductions at time of writ overrides. You can now specify additional overrides to more precisely calculate these deductions.

Enhanced Form 1494 Exemption Amount Derivation

Augment your federal tax levy processing through the calculation of your Form 1494 exemption amounts. The payroll process now uses the year you specify on the “Statement of Exemption Received Date” to determine these amounts.

Involuntary Deductions Subprocessing Order Defaults

Automate the assignment of an involuntary deduction’s sub processing order. When you define an involuntary deduction and create the card component, the sub processing order of the deduction is automatically determined by its involuntary deduction type.

Electronic Income Withholding Orders Inbound Process Enhancements

Fine-tune the processing of your electronic income withholding orders (e-IWOs) through the new “e-IWO Processing Overrides Formula”. This fast formula enables you to enforce advanced calculation rules, such as personalized deduction sub processing rules, deduction start date overrides, and total withholding amount override. Use this sample formula as a template, and customize it to suit your needs.

Third-Party Periodic Tax Filing Audit Report Detail Enhancements

Enhance your third-party periodic tax filing reconciliation with the ability to run the periodic audit report detail through a new process. From the Checklist or Regulatory and Tax Reporting work areas, select Run Third-Party Tax Filing Audit Report Detail. This new process allows you to run the audit report detail standalone from the Third-Party Periodic Tax Filing Extract. Run this process by a date range, by a specific periodic tax filing extract flow name, by a specific TRU, or by a specific employee.

Third-Party Quarterly Tax Filing Extract Enhancement for Amended Quarter Filings

Facilitate your third-party quarterly tax filing with the addition of new parameters on your amended quarter filings. When you run the Run Third-Party Quarterly Tax Filing Extract task, you can now specify a submission type, issue identification date, reason codes 1 through 10, and any special instructions. You can also select the appropriate submission type to identify the type of quarterly file being sent: Original, Amendment File, Exception Late Original File, or W-2 Management File.

Third-Party Quarterly Tax Filing Extract Supplier Enhancements for Fourth Quarter

Extend your third-party quarterly tax filing with support for 4th quarter changes mandated by your supplier. This includes passing new W-2 box records for US Box 12 Code FF and Puerto Rico Box 16 Code F. In addition to these supplier changes, the third-party quarterly tax filing audit report has been enhanced to include the work PSD code for PA Act 32 jurisdictions.

Employee Active Balance Report Enhancements to Include New Balances

Augment your balance reconciliation with the addition of new balances on the Employee Active Payroll Balance report. Resident and nonresident balances at the city and county balance levels are now included. A new balance level “Pennsylvania Locals” is available. This balance level includes information specific to the PA Act 32 local balances such as the tax collection district code, the work and resident PSD codes. The state balance level now includes seven W-2 Territory balances for easier reconciliation of Puerto Rico data.

Involuntary Deductions Processing Fee Enhancement

With this enhancement, the payroll process no longer automatically deducts the processing fee when an involuntary deduction isn’t processed during the run.

New 90-Day Balance Dimension

Utilize the new 90-day balance dimension to calculate sick pay for your California commissioned or piece-rate employees. When defining Absence elements, use the new “Relationship 90 Earned Days to Date” balance dimension to pay the proper sick rate to affected employees. This dimension looks at balances based on date earned that include full pay periods within the specified 90-day window.

Electronic Income Withholding Order Reference Code Enhancement

Enhance the generation of the Involuntary Deductions card component Reference Code through the inclusion of the electronic income withholding order (e-IWO) remittance identifier. This further qualifies the Reference Code to prevent duplicate values. When you load a new inbound e-IWO into the card component, the Reference Code now consists of a concatenation of the following fields: Case Identifier, State Abbreviation, and Remittance Identifier.

New York Family Leave Insurance Support

Automate New York Family Leave Insurance deductions through the new NY State Disability calculation component. You can enable this deduction on the payroll statutory unit and tax reporting unit calculation cards. All employees associated with those organizations would become eligible.

Guam Support

Leverage the new Guam territory functionality to support your payroll processing.

Run US Tax Balance Adjustment Process

Simplify performing FUTA-related tax balance adjustments through the new Run US Tax Balance Adjustment process. When you receive new credit reduction rates for the current calendar year, the payroll process does not self-adjust the taxes for employees that have already reached the FUTA wage limit or for employees that have terminated prior to the rate change. This process performs the tax adjustments on those impacted employees.

Enhanced Year-Begin Process

Simplify your year-begin preparations through the updated Run Start of Year Process. This process now provides processing modes to identify 401 (k) limit overrides and exemption details at the federal and state levels.

Enhanced Ohio School District Tax Calculation

Process Ohio school districts that don’t use the flat rate tax method. The payroll process now determines their taxation based on the allowances you set on the Ohio state component of the employee’s tax card.

Puerto Rico Young Entrepreneurs Act

Enhance payroll processing for your Puerto Rican employees with support for the Puerto Rico Young Entrepreneurs Act. For all employees meeting the age criteria, this exemption starts immediately for any payroll runs after application of this statutory patch.

With this enhancement, the payroll process automatically exempts the first 40,000 USD in wages for eligible employees. It accumulates the exempt wages in a new PR Youth Exempt Wages balance. Once the limit is reached, the state income tax balances begin accumulations.

e-IWO Enhanced Search Capabilities

Simplify locating electronic income withholding orders (e-IWOs) information in the storage table through enhanced search criteria. These new fields include Case Identifier, Employee SSN, FIPS Code, and Order Identifier.

Third-Party Periodic Tax FIling Extract Inclusion of Payroll Frequency

Include payroll frequency in the periodic tax information you submit to your third-party provider. The Third-Party Periodic Tax Filing Extract now includes payroll frequency in the output file. If the payroll run includes multiple payroll frequencies for a given periodic date range, the file reports the tax data in separate batches by payroll frequency. The Periodic Tax Filing Audit Reports now include the payroll frequency.

Involuntary Deduction Fee Priority

Improve involuntary deductions processing through enhanced fee calculation. You can now specify whether the payroll process calculates the processing fees before or after the involuntary deduction. This feature is available for Garnishment and Creditor Debt secondary classifications.

Involuntary Deduction Disposable Income Recalculation

Improve the accuracy of involuntary deductions calculation by electing to recalculate disposable income for select deduction types. When deductions of Educational Loan, Debt Collection Improvement Act (DCIA), and Bankruptcy are combined with other involuntary deductions, you can direct the payroll process to recalculate the disposable income for those classifications.

e-IWO Audit Report Enhancement

Validate the uptake of inbound electronic income withholding orders (e-IWOs) through an enhanced audit report. This report now includes a check for cases when the issuing state on the order is different from the employee’s work state. You should review the card component details for this scenario and make any needed modifications.

Tax Withholding Card Enhancement for Guam

Updated the Guam regional component of employee Tax Withholding card. You can now make your updates directly on the Guam component rather than on the Federal component.

e-IWO Inbound Process Enhancement

• Enhance the processing of electronic income withholding orders (e-IWO) inbound process through new handling of the employee work state. If the issuing state on the incoming order is not the employee’s work state, the inbound process now uses the employee’s work state to create or update the Involuntary Deductions card component. For employees working in multiple states, the process uses the issuing state.

Global Payroll Interface

Oracle Fusion Global Payroll Interface supports features to send personal payroll information to third-party payroll providers and then to import processed payroll data into Oracle Fusion Global HR. You can copy and modify predefined extract definitions to meet the requirements of your third-party payroll provider. Before extracting data, payroll coordinators can optionally run the Calculate Gross Earnings process to calculate periodic values to validate gross earnings calculations. If you import processed payroll data or payslips from your third-party payroll provider, the data is available for further reporting and analysis.

Manage BackFeed Data

Manage your payroll interface, on the Payroll Interface Inbound Records page, you can:

• Add, view, edit, and delete information about payroll, payment, leave, and messages received from third-party payroll providers.
• Filter imported data.
• View the payslip data that includes third-party payslips.

Integration with ADP Global Payroll

Extract data from Oracle Fusion Global Human Resources easily to integrate with ADP Global Payroll. You can use the new predefined extract definition and flow pattern to extract data in a format compliant with ADP standards.

Deleted Data Report

Use the Deleted Data Report to view details of purged data of business objects, such as element entries and personal payment methods.

Country Support for Payroll Interface

France

New Calculation Card: Hardship Factor

Capture the following information related to Hardship:

• Year Concerned
• Hardship Factor: Hyperbaric activities, Night time work, Alternative cycle, and Repetitive work

Statutory Deduction Calculation Card Enhancement

Capture the following additional information in the Statutory Deduction calculation card:

• Resident Abroad: Social Security and Tax status
• Pensioner: Employee Pension status upon hire

Pension and Welfare Calculation Card Enhancement

Capture the following additional information in the Pension and Welfare calculation card:

• Number of adult legal beneficiaries
• Number of dependent children
• Number of child legal beneficiaries
• Number of beneficiaries

Workforce Rewards Transactional Business Intelligence

Oracle Fusion Transactional Business Intelligence is a real time, self-service reporting solution offered to all Oracle Cloud application users to create ad hoc reports and analyze them for daily decision-making. Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence provides human resources managers and specialists, business executives, and line managers the critical workforce information to analyze workforce costs, staffing, compensation, performance management, talent management, succession planning, and employee benefits.

Enhancements for Benefits

New Dimension: Open Enrollments and Benefit Legal Disclaimer

Enhance your benefits reporting by using these two new dimensions, Open Enrollments and Benefit Legal Disclaimer, to report on enrollments that were recorded with or without disclaimers, and also to report on default and pending enrollments.

New Dimension: Benefit Person Habits

Use the Person Habits dimension to report on eligibility and rate calculation determinations for benefits processing.

Enhancements for Compensation

New Attributes and Performance Enhancements for Compensation OTBI

Enhance your compensation reporting by using the 12 new attributes related to Manager Status, Due Dates by Hierarchy Level, and Overall Budget. Improve reporting performance with changes to the compensation manager hierarchy.

Compensation Manager List

Improve the performance of your prompts using the Compensation Manager hierarchy with the addition of a new dimension used exclusively for building the dashboard prompt. The new dimension named ‘Compensation Manager List’ is added to the Workforce Compensation Real Time and Workforce Compensation Budgets Real Time subject areas.

New Sample Compensation Analyses

Streamline building analysis by using the following new sample Compensation analyses now available:

• High Performers Salary Adjustment: Compa-ratio bands of workers by the length of service in the organization.
• Compa-Ratio by Worker Count: Calculated compa-ratio bands and the percentage of workers in those bands.
• Salary Adjustment Trend: Trend of salary adjustment by job, grade, country, and business unit for the years selected.
• Compa-Ratio by Length of Service: Compa-ratio bands of workers by the length of service in the organization.

For access to the library of sample reports and analytic that can be used and/or modified for use please access Apps Connect and the Report Sharing Center.

Enhancements for Payroll

New Subject Area: Payroll Balances Real Time

Enhance your payroll reporting capabilities with the new subject area related to payroll balances. Use the Payroll Balances subject area to report on worker payroll run balances at all levels such as assignment, employment term, and payroll relationship. Payroll balance categories, balance types, names, and balance values that are available.