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  1. OCTOBER MAINTENANCE PACK FOR 22C
  1. Revision History
  2. Overview
  3. Payroll
    1. Payroll for Mexico
        1. Economic Zone Override
  1. Update 22C
  1. Revision History
  2. Overview
  3. Payroll
    1. Global Payroll
        1. Smart Nav Date Support
        2. Support for Time Updates in Payroll
        3. New Messages on the Personal Payment Method Page
        4. Calculation Entries Effective Date Field Updates
        5. Language Translation of Element Objects
        6. Responsive Balance Result - View Balances By Date
        7. Net Pay Amount in Person Results Page
        8. Autocomplete Rules for Assigned Payroll Business Object in Local and Global Transfer
        9. Payroll Flows Outbound API Notifications
        10. HCM Alerts for Payroll Flows
        11. Retention Period for Payroll HCM Extracts Archive Data
        12. Run Balance Exception Report Support for Excel and CSV
    2. Payroll for Bahrain
        1. Bahrain Retro for Social Insurance and Gratuity
    3. Payroll for Canada
        1. Canada Payslip Enhancements
        2. Display National Identifier on Employee Active Payroll Balance Report
        3. Report Vacation Liability Balance in Employer Liabilities Sections of Global Reports
    4. Payroll for China
        1. Use Month-to-Date Balances in Social Security Calculations
    5. Payroll for Mexico
        1. Element CFDI Information Enhancement
    6. Payroll for Saudi Arabia
        1. GOSI Salary Recalculation Update
    7. Payroll for the United Kingdom
        1. LGPS Annual Pensionable Pay Frequencies
        2. Reporting to MyCSP Additional Assignments That Have Ended
        3. Send PAE Notification Letters Through Email
        4. Payroll Validation Archive Report Enhancements

October Maintenance Pack for 22C

Revision History

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

Date Module Feature Notes
22 NOV 2022     Created initial document.

Overview

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

  • Release Updates (22A, 22B, 22C, and 22D)
  • 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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HAVE AN IDEA?

We’re here and we’re listening. If you have a suggestion on how to make our products better, please let us know. To enter an idea go to the Ideas Lab on Oracle Customer Connect. In this document wherever you see the light bulb icon after the feature name it means we delivered one of your ideas.

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Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

  • HCM Common What's New - In this What's New you will find feature that are used across applications.
  • 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.

DISCLAIMER

The information contained in this document may include statements about Oracle’s product development plans. Many factors can materially affect Oracle’s product development plans and the nature and timing of future product releases. Accordingly, this Information is provided to you solely for information only, is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

This information may not be incorporated into any contractual agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or affiliates. Oracle specifically disclaims any liability with respect to this information. Refer to the Legal Notices and Terms of Use for further information.

Payroll

Payroll for Mexico

Payroll for Oracle Human Capital Management for Mexico supports country specific features and functions for Mexico. It enables users to follow Mexico's business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

Economic Zone Override

Use the economic zone override in the Employee Tax Card to specify the economic zone for an individual employee.

Update 22C

Revision History

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

Date Module Feature Notes
03 JUN 2022     Created initial document.

Overview

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

  • Release Updates (22A, 22B, 22C, and 22D)
  • 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.

HAVE AN IDEA?

We’re here and we’re listening. If you have a suggestion on how to make our products better, please let us know. To enter an idea go to the Ideas Lab on Oracle Customer Connect. In this document wherever you see the light bulb icon after the feature name it means we delivered one of your ideas.

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.

DISCLAIMER

The information contained in this document may include statements about Oracle’s product development plans. Many factors can materially affect Oracle’s product development plans and the nature and timing of future product releases. Accordingly, this Information is provided to you solely for information only, is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

Payroll

Global Payroll

Oracle 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.

Smart Nav Date Support

Pass the selected effective date across various pages using the Professional SmartNav.

Support for Time Updates in Payroll

Load time card updates to payroll. Time card information from Oracle Time & Labor or a third-party time product can be loaded into the payroll application for payment. When an employee makes a change to a time card, only the updated time information will now be passed to payroll. This enhancement is currently available for new time elements created as of 22C Update and later. 

New Messages on the Personal Payment Method Page

View additional messages on the personal payment method page, to prevent users from deleting payment methods in error.

Calculation Entries Effective Date Field Updates

Change display of the effective date field depending on the actions you take when updating calculation entries.

Language Translation of Element Objects

View predefined element features such as input values, suffixes in the name of child elements, balances, and formulas in your preferred session language. Please note, this enhancement is not yet available to customers that us the US legislation.

Responsive Balance Result - View Balances By Date

View the payroll balances for an employee as of a specific date. The new responsive Balance by Date page will calculate and display balances for an effective date. For example, view the Year-to-Date (YTD) overtime balance for an employee as of 31st October 2022.

Net Pay Amount in Person Results Page

View Net Pay information on the Person Results page.

Autocomplete Rules for Assigned Payroll Business Object in Local and Global Transfer

Derive HR assignment attributes from Payroll, such as location, using autocomplete rules for the Local and Global Transfer (LGT) flow.

Payroll Flows Outbound API Notifications

Configure an outbound notification with the payroll flows outbound API notifications feature. Once a task in a flow completes it will send a completion message to an external downstream server to notify that the process has completed. The flows outbound API solution will utilize the industry standard client credentials flow, OAuth 2.0. This standard allows for secure communication between servers based on a token authentication approach.

HCM Alerts for Payroll Flows

Enable the HCM Alerts functionality to replace the existing payroll flow notifications. The HCM Alerts feature allows you to configure the format of the alerts to either worklist notifications or emails. You can define your own notification content and send notifications to multiple owners of a flow.

Retention Period for Payroll HCM Extracts Archive Data

Purge payroll reports using the HCM Extracts purge feature. A retention period has now been set for the predefined payroll extracts. The retention period controls the period of time the archive data is retained before it is purged such as 90 days.

Run Balance Exception Report Support for Excel and CSV

Report on balance exceptions using the new CSV and Excel report formats. Use the report category parameter on the Run Balance Exception Report flow to indicate if the report should be generated in a PDF, CSV or Excel format.

Payroll for Bahrain

Payroll for Oracle Human Capital Management for Bahrain supports country specific features and functions for Bahrain. It enables users to follow Bahrain's business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

Bahrain Retro for Social Insurance and Gratuity

Simplify retroactive calculations with retro components and retro elements delivered for all elements associated with social insurance or gratuity processing.

Payroll for Canada

Payroll for Oracle Human Capital Management 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.

Canada Payslip Enhancements

Display the start and end dates of retroactive earnings on the Canada payslip. Also, the link to the employee’s payslip will now include the date to help employees differentiate between the different payslip attachments.

Display National Identifier on Employee Active Payroll Balance Report

Display the person’s national identifier on the Employee Active Payroll Balance Report. This feature provides the ability to enable a new parameter that offers various display options of the employee’s Social Insurance Number.

Report Vacation Liability Balance in Employer Liabilities Sections of Global Reports

View the Vacation Liability balance on the global reports. The balance generated in the payroll run is now displayed in the Employer Liabilities sections of the global reports.

Payroll for China

Payroll for Oracle Human Capital Management 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.

Use Month-to-Date Balances in Social Security Calculations

Use month-to-date balances in social security calculations, to be better compliant with legislative requirement. Period-to-date balances were used in the calculations earlier.

Payroll for Mexico

Payroll for Oracle Human Capital Management for Mexico supports country specific features and functions for Mexico. It enables users to follow Mexico's business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

Element CFDI Information Enhancement

Include more information for the Comprobante Fiscal Digital por Internet (CFDI) reporting when you create or edit payroll elements. While selecting the CFDI code from a list of values, you can now enter the CFDI key and concept related to the payroll element. The CFDI key is limited to 15 characters and displayed in the Clave tag of the CFDI XML. The CFDI concept key is limited to 100 characters and displayed in the Concepto tag of the CFDI XML.

Payroll for Saudi Arabia

Payroll for Oracle Human Capital Management for Saudi Arabia supports country specific features and functions for Saudi Arabia. It enables users to follow Saudi Arabia's business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

GOSI Salary Recalculation Update

Simplify the management of the GOSI reference salary. The component details Recalculate GOSI Salary on the Employer GOSI Details calculation card is open-ended, instead of automatically being end-dated on an entry.

Payroll for the United Kingdom

Payroll for Oracle Human Capital Management for the United Kingdom supports country specific features and functions for the United Kingdom. It enables users to follow the United Kingdoms business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

LGPS Annual Pensionable Pay Frequencies

Enhance the user experience by selecting the appropriate frequency of monthly, quarterly, semi-annually or annually for the calculation of the LGPS rates. Although you must reassess the appropriate band and rate each April, you can now choose to review them periodically or when there is a material change in pay.

Reporting to MyCSP Additional Assignments That Have Ended

Report the end of an assignment to MyCSP when an End Assignment or End Term action has occurred (but the work relationship still exists). All the files corresponding to the assignment are closed as of the end date. This includes Service History, Part-Time History, Pay History, Salary History, Allowance History, and WPS Contribution Rate History File, where applicable.

Send PAE Notification Letters Through Email

Send your employees a pensions automatic enrolment notification letter through email according to the requirements stipulated from the pensions regulator. There must be a valid email address present for them to receive the letter as a PDF document. You can use the email delivery option once you've set up the relevant delivery parameters. 

Payroll Validation Archive Report Enhancements

Make use of new and updated messages provided in the Payroll Validation Archive Report. The updates reflect either new validation introduced or a revision of existing messages. The new messages relate to validations that cover reaching the age of 75 for pensions. Also updated are messages for calculation card association anomalies for Court Orders, Statutory Deduction, and Pensions Automatic Enrolment components. The amended messages relate to the existing validations for address, new starter declaration, and pension automatic enrolment rollback checks.