Update 21D

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Overview

HCM Cloud applications have two types of patches you can receive that are documented in this New Feature Summary:

• Release Updates (21A, 21B, 21C, and 21D)
• Optional Monthly Maintenance Packs to each update

It is important for you to know what Release Update your environment is on. You can find this in your Cloud Portal.

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Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

• Human Resources What’s New – In the Global Human Resources section you will find features on the base application in which other application are built upon. 

NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for Talent and Compensation products.

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Absence Management

Absence Management

Oracle Absence Management is a configurable and flexible global solution that enables organizations to manage absences of their workforce. The framework provides ability to define both complex and diverse absence plans. It integrates with the Oracle Cloud Global Payroll and Time and Labor products and provides dedicated work areas for the roles of Administrator and Employees. Simplified user interface is provided for employees’ absence data entry.

Multiple Assignment Support for Qualification Plans

Take advantage of the improvements made to the plan consumption calculation for absences that consume from a qualification plan entitlement. This applies to absences of those entitlements where the qualification plan is configured to use a plan term type of Rolling Backwards, Rolling Forwards, or Calendar Year. When processing such an absence for an employee with multiple assignments, the calculation of remaining entitlement happens independently for each assignment of the employee. Here's how the application calculates the available entitlement for an assignment. The entitlement that's used by way of earlier absences within the plan-term period is subtracted from the overall entitlement.

Enter Repeating Absences

Use the new repeat option to schedule recurring absences. You can enter an absence in basic or advanced mode and configure it to repeat daily, weekly, or for a specific number of days or weeks. Options for ending the repeating pattern include ending on a specific date or after a certain number of occurrences.  Single day absences can be repeated either daily or weekly, while you can configure multiple day absences to repeat only weekly, for example, to cover weekly doctor appointments.

Multiple Plan Support for Leave Agreements

See now that if an organization has an occupational shared parental leave and pay plan that integrates with the statutory shared parental leave and pay plan, you can now manage both of them in a single agreement.