May Maintenance Pack for 23A

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
28 APR 2023			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 (23A, 23B, 23C, and 23D)
• 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.

Profit Sharing Reporting Enhancements

Review results of the Calculate Mexico Profit Sharing process using the profit sharing excel report and optionally upload the audit information and view it in the Payroll Interface Inbound Records page.

March Maintenance Pack for 23A

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
24 FEB 2023			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 (23A, 23B, 23C, and 23D)
• 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:

• 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 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 Kingdom's business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

Legislative Changes for the Tax Year 2023-24

Stay compliant with legislative changes introduced for the tax year 2023-24. This includes all the prescribed changes to rates, thresholds, and percentages for tax, National Insurance deductions, statutory payments, student and postgraduate loans, pensions enrolment trigger and band, Scottish earnings arrestment bands, and all other changes that apply for UK, Scotland and Wales from 6 April 2023.

Payroll Controlled Availability

Features under this heading are under the Controlled Availability Program. The Controlled Availability Program is a program for early testing and feedback of features, before they are included into the product line. You must request and be accepted into the Controlled Availability Programs to use these features. Please see the What's New for more information on being part of these programs.

NOTE: These features are not generally available to customers, customers must be approved to use these features. When these features are generally available to all customers they will be announced under their product area headings.

Payroll for India

Volunteer to participate in this feature. Oracle Cloud HCM expands its global footprint to support Oracle Fusion Cloud Payroll for India. On top of the strong Global Payroll functionality, Key enhancements are included on top of the strong Global Payroll Functionality beginning with this release, to meet the needs of the local market.

Update 23A

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
31 MAR 2023	Global Payroll	Calculation Entries Additional Fields	Updated document. Revised feature information.
31 MAR 2023	US Payroll	Regional Pay Data Report Enhancement for California	Updated document. Revised feature information.
24 FEB 2023	US Payroll	New Hire State Electronic Report Enhancement	Updated document. Revised feature information.
02 DEC 2022			Created initial document.

Overview

HCM Cloud applications have two types of patches you can receive that are documented in this What’s New:

• Release Updates (23A, 23B, 23C, and 23D)
• 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:

• 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

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.

Effective Date on Professional Payroll Pages

View the effective date on the following professional payroll pages to easily identify the date context for the data you are viewing on the page:

• Payslips
• Person Results
• Third-Party Person Payment Methods
• View Process Information Groups

Adjust Individual Balance Responsive Page

Adjust one or more payroll balances for an employee in the responsive Adjust Individual Balances page. 

RetroPay Late Hire Additions

Calculate retroactive pay for late hires using the enhanced RetroPay Late Hire solution. This feature automates the calculation of retroactive earnings for late hires by removing the need for manual intervention and view the late hire details for an employee using the payroll flow and checklist.

QuickPay - Process Configuration Group Parameter

Use the Process Configuration Group parameter on the QuickPay submission page to select a process configuration group of your choice when submitting a QuickPay. If you don’t make a selection, the process configuration group value defaults to the default group for the QuickPay process or what you have set using the ACTION_PARAMETER_GROUPS profile option.

Values Defined by Criteria: Multiple Values Support in the Payroll Run

Calculate one or more values in the payroll run using a Values Defined by Criteria. For example, your company calculates car allowance and housing allowance rates for an employee based on their job. The job criteria details and the allowance values are captured in a Values Defined by Criteria. You can now indicate which of the values captured on the Values Defined by Criteria should be calculated when processing an element in the payroll run.

Autocomplete Rules for TimeCard Required and Overtime Period within HR Flows

Derive the Timecard Required flag and Overtime Period (in the Payroll Assignment Business Object), based on HR assignment attributes such as job, grade, or department, using Autocomplete Rules.

Values by Criteria: Text Support in Payroll Run

Create a Values Defined by Criteria to capture text values based on a set of criteria such as assignment job and location. You can retrieve the appropriate text value for an employee when processing the payroll run.

Compile Formula Additional Parameters

Optimize performance of the Compile Formula process by using the additional Flow Parameters provided. The additional parameters provide greater flexibility in the selection of the formula you want to compile.

Ability to Record Costing Information as part of a Global Transfer

Record an employee’s costing information as part of the Local and Global Transfer transaction. For example, an employee transfers to a new legal employer and as a result the costing information changes; within the global transfer transaction, you can now record the new costing data for the target assignment.

Calculation Entries Additional Fields

Use the Creator Type field within the Standard Entries collapsed region to identify the creation origin of the entry, for example, Salary Proposal, Element Entry Page, Balance Adjustment, and so on. Within the detail region of Time and Absence, you can see if the entry has been processed or not processed by a QuickPay or Payroll process. 

Include Payroll Details in Change Assignment Approval Notification

Enhance Change Assignment approval notification to include payroll details: if you have enabled the Payroll Details region within the Change Assignment flow, you can now include payroll data within your approval notification template.

Export Payroll Run Results

Export an employee’s payroll run results displayed on the responsive page into a file, such as a Microsoft Excel Workbook File.

Export Payroll Balance Results

Export the payroll balance results displayed for an employee on the responsive page into a file, such as a Microsoft Excel Workbook File.

Enhanced Reports Available and Previous Versions Are No Longer Supported

The following reports have been enhanced to extract the year-to-date (YTD) payroll balances for large volumes of data:

• Payroll Costing Report
• Payroll Activity Report
• Statutory Deduction Register
• Payroll Register Report

The new reports use a much lighter report template with enhanced performance and scalability capabilities to handle high volumes of data. 

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.

CPP and QPP Exemption During Mid-Period Payroll Transfer

Calculate Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and Quebec Pension Plan (QPP) employee and employer contributions according to legislative rules, and respect the exemption amounts in cases where an employee experiences mid-period payroll transfers in the same period. This only affects payroll transfers of the same payroll frequency.

Load ROE Reasons Mappings Using HCM Data Loader

Load the Record of Employment reason mappings in mass using the HCM Data Loader (HDL).

Enhanced Reporting Information Card

Create the employee's reporting information card using the new, responsive Reporting Information page.

Support for HR and Payroll Data Validation Reporting

Report exceptions for missing or invalid HR and payroll data that is required for payroll processing and reporting.

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.

Work Risk Incident Premium Validation

Make use of the additional validation of the Work Risk Incident Premium (WRIP) in the organization calculation card. The validation ensures the WRIP is in the range according to IMSS Law Article 74.

Support for Dynamic Payroll Relationship Groups

Simplify your payroll reporting and processing with formula-based dynamic payroll relationship groups for Mexico reports and processes that have the Payroll Relationship Group parameter. These relationship groups allow you to easily determine whether a payroll relationship is included or not, based on rules evaluated at the time of submitting the flow.

INFONAVIT Involuntary Deduction Enhancement

Calculate Instituto del Fondo Nacional de la Vivienda para los Trabajadores (INFONAVIT) loans accurately as involuntary deductions, using the delivered element template and new element classifications of INFONAVIT Loan and INFONAVIT Loan Insurance. Use the involuntary deductions calculation card to enter the relevant calculation information for loans and the associated loan insurance.

Payroll for Oman

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

Social Insurance for GCC Citizens

Calculate social insurance contributions accurately with the delivered legislative rules and information for citizens of the GCC countries.

Gratuity

Estimate the calculation of gratuity with the delivered rules so that employers can estimate the cost of gratuity for eligible employees. Set the gratuity to be paid indicator to true at legal entity level to activate the monthly gratuity accrual process.

The actual gratuity will be calculated and paid on the termination of an employee when the Employee Gratuity Details calculation card is present.

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 Kingdom's business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

P60 End of Year Statement for Tax Year 2022-23

Use the updated templates provided for eP60, Plain Paper, or Type LE(P) to generate and issue P60 End of Year Statement for the tax year 2022-23 to your employees

Benefits in Kind Proration on Mid-Period End or Termination

Prorate the car, van, and other benefits appropriately using the new attributes introduced for availability dates when your employee terminates part way through a tax period. You can leave the benefit component open ended and enter the new available from and to dates. The application processes the component in payroll, and calculates the taxable amount as a prorated value based on the period the benefit was available.

Court Order Processing Fee Override

Use the enhanced court order feature that supports the override of processing fee for an individual employee court order calculation, including the ability to override to zero.

P45 Flow - Errors and Warnings Report

Make use of the generated errors and warnings report when running the P45 flow, that lists all the anomalies found during the process. You will also notice that some of the exceptions found in the data for employer, organization, and employees that were earlier marked as warnings are now shown as errors. This implies that the process will stop and you need to review and fix the errors. 

P11D Audit Report Includes Person Number

Identify employees reported on the P11D audit report using the two new fields included in the output. Person Number and Payroll Relationship have been added to the output file generated from the P11D process.

LGPS – Calculation of Employer Contributions for Absences with Reduced Payment

When calculating contributions for absences like sickness or maternity, where there are days with normal pay and days with reduced or zero pay in the same pay period, the employer contributions are calculated on prorated values of the Permanent Pensionable Pay and prorated Assumed Pensionable Pay.

Payroll for the United States

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

Regional Pay Data Report Enhancement for California

Augment the Regional Pay Data Report with the addition of a calculation value definition to track pay bands included in the pay data reporting extracts for California.

Regional Pay Data Report Enhancement

Improve the Regional Pay Data Report by making the parameters related to contact information optional rather than mandatory.