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  1. MAY MAINTENANCE PACK FOR 21A
  1. Revision History
  2. Overview
  3. Payroll
    1. Global Payroll
        1. Data Security Support for Calculation Card in HSDL
  1. FEBRUARY MAINTENANCE PACK FOR 21A
  1. Revision History
  2. Overview
  3. Payroll
    1. Payroll for the United Kingdom
        1. P11D Expenses and Benefits Statement for the Tax Year 2020-21
        2. Payrolling Benefits-in-Kind 2021-22
        3. P60 - End of Year Statement for the Tax Year 2020-21
        4. P46 (Car) Annual Updates
        5. Real Time Information - Updates for Tax Year 2021-22
        6. New Starter Declaration Change for Student Loans
        7. New Student Loan- Plan 4 added
  1. Update 21A
  1. Revision History
  2. Overview
  3. Benefits
    1. Benefits
        1. Dependent and Beneficiary Designation
        2. Benefits Person Electable Choices Diagnostic Test Report
        3. Prevent Accidental Back Out of Life Events
        4. Close Life Events After Making Elections
        5. Additional Values on Benefits
        6. Enrollment Flow as Quick Action and Deep Link
        7. Report on Notes
  4. Compensation and Total Compensation Statement
    1. Compensation
        1. Responsive Pages Access from Compensation Work Area
        2. Salary Basis Type Renamed
        3. Grade Rate Overrides Using Location and Business Unit Based Salary Range Differentials Introduction
        4. Individual Compensation Plan Integrity Checker Introduction
      1. Salary Standard Components
        1. Standard Components Salary Basis Type Introduction
        2. Salary Allocation with Standard Components Introduction
        3. Salary Population from Grade Ladder Rates: Standard Components
        4. Standard Salary Components Introduction in View Compensation History
      2. Workforce Compensation
        1. Audit Assignment Segment Changes
        2. Post Compensation Amounts to Salary Rates
        3. Reprocess or Add New Plan Moved to Batch Process
        4. Test Eligibility Profiles in Workforce Compensation Plan Setup
        5. Use Assignment Segments in Compensation Change Statements
        6. View Manager Assignment Number When Searching in Start Process Manager Hierarchy Search Filter
        7. View Person And Assignment Number in Audit Export Report
        8. View Person and Assignment Number in the Manager Status Report
      3. Total Compensation and External Data
        1. External Data - Update Assignments
        2. Total Compensation - Salary Rates as a Source
      4. Compensation Replaced or Removed Features
        1. Removal of the SalaryVO Business Object
  5. Payroll
    1. Global Payroll
        1. Payslips Access
        2. Responsive Page for Event Action Notifications
        3. Copy Payroll Balances During Global Transfers
        4. Support for SET Instruction in HDL Transformation Formulas
        5. Default Process Configuration Settings for Delivered Extracts
        6. Transfer Payroll Run Costs to SLA Using Payment Date From Payroll Period Definition
      1. Payroll Processing
        1. Automatic Flow Submission for Void, Cancel and External Payment Actions
        2. Enhancements to Void Process When Payments Transferred to Cash Management
        3. Multiple Log Files
        4. Subledger Transaction Number Display in Process Results Details
      2. Payment Methods
        1. Payment Methods Responsive Page
        2. Personal Payment Method Enhanced for Multiple Assignments
        3. Email Alerts for Personal Payment Method Changes
        4. Bank Region on Payment Methods Page
      3. Costing
        1. Partial Period Accruals with Element Group and Relationship Group
        2. Cost and Reconcile Third-Party Rollup Payments
    2. Payroll for Canada
        1. Quebec Labour Standards Report
        2. Global Transfer Uptake: Mass Transfer
        3. Employee Net Pay Threshold
        4. Attribute Visibility Changes
    3. Payroll for China
        1. Enhanced Tax Exemption Amount YTD Calculation Now Considers TRU Association Update Date
    4. Payroll for Kuwait
        1. Support for Social Allowances
        2. Social Insurance Segregated Components
    5. Payroll for Mexico
        1. Variable Earnings Override for SDI Calculation
    6. Payroll for Qatar
        1. Social Insurance for GCC Citizens Working in Qatar
    7. Payroll for Saudi Arabia
        1. Check TRU in Payroll Validation Report
        2. Multi-Language Support for Online Payslip
        3. Additional Hazards Contributions
    8. Payroll for the United Kingdom
        1. Additional Retroactive Cases for Teachers' Pension
        2. Enable Proration for P11D Benefits
        3. Pensions Calculation Card and Automatic Association to Assignment
        4. Reporting Reference Added for Court Order CMSDEO
        5. Masking Authentication Information at Organization Level
        6. Updates to Teachers' Pension MCR Report Process Flow
    9. Payroll for the United States
        1. Global Transfer Enhancement for Involuntary Deductions
        2. Suspend Involuntary Deductions
        3. Global Transfer Enhancement for Tax Card Synchronization
        4. Global Transfer Enhancement for Deferred Compensation Limits
        5. Work Relationship Legislative Information Hidden on Termination
        6. Anytime Pay
        7. Fee Priority for Garnishment and Creditor Debt Involuntary Deductions
        8. US 1094-C Employer Report Flow Enhancement for California
        9. US 1094-C Employer Report Flow Enhancement for Rhode Island
        10. Health Reimbursement Arrangement Support for Affordable Care Act Reporting
  6. HR Optimizations
    1. Workforce Rewards Transactional Business Intelligence
      1. Benefits
        1. Reporting on Benefits Notes
      2. Compensation
        1. Compensation Change Statements Enhancement in Compensation Subject Areas
        2. Grade Rate Value in Salary Subject Areas
        3. New Attributes to Stock Details Real Time Subject Area

May Maintenance Pack for 21A

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 Product Feature Notes
30 APR 2021     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 (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.

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 stand alone 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 in Release Readiness under Human Capital Management or via the Oracle Help Center under Cloud Applications > Human Capital Management.

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.

Data Security Support for Calculation Card in HSDL

Ensure that data security is maintained when you load calculation cards using the HCM Spreadsheet Loader (HSDL) application.

February Maintenance Pack for 21A

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 Product Feature Notes
29 JAN 2021     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 (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.

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 stand alone 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 in Release Readiness under Human Capital Management or via the Oracle Help Center under Cloud Applications > Human Capital Management.

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 Kingdoms business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

P11D Expenses and Benefits Statement for the Tax Year 2020-21

Provide your employees with a P11D Expenses and Benefits statement that reflects the taxable benefits amounts, using the HMRC published rates and thresholds relevant for the tax year ending April 2021.

Payrolling Benefits-in-Kind 2021-22

Process your employees' taxable benefits-in-kind using the correct thresholds and rates for tax year 2021-22..  HMRC published rates and thresholds are incorporated, and will be effective for payroll runs for the new tax year.

P60 - End of Year Statement for the Tax Year 2020-21

Generate employee P60 End of Year Statements showing all the PAYE information related to the tax year ending April 2021 by running the End of Year P60 process.  The templates for P60 are updated for tax year 2020-21. 

P46 (Car) Annual Updates

Run the P46(Car) process that now uses the appropriate template delivered with all relevant updates applied for the tax year 2021-22. 

Real Time Information - Updates for Tax Year 2021-22

Run the new processes for Full Payment Submission and Employer Payment Summary for the tax year ending April 2022.  All the relevant statutory updates required for the tax year 2021-22 have been applied to the output files you send to HMRC.

New Starter Declaration Change for Student Loans

Use the new profile option for the new format of  the New Starter Declaration. This includes the option to select the new Student Loan Plan 4. The new plan would be effective from April 2021, and the questions on  Student Loan section have been updated to reflect the changes. The employee self service and the Statutory Deductions calculation card PAYE component also enable you to select Student Loan Plan 4.

New Student Loan- Plan 4 added

Add Student Loan Plan Type 4 to be processed effective April 2021. The Student Loan Plan 4 uses the prescribed method to calculate the deduction in payroll.   

Update 21A

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 Product Feature Notes
26 MAR 2021

Payroll for the United States

Global Transfer Enhancement for Reporting Information Cards

This feature was not delivered, so it has been removed from update 21A.

26 MAR 2021 Payroll for the United States Health Reimbursement Arrangement Support for Affordable Care Act Reporting

Updated document. Feature delivered in update 21A.

26 MAR 2021

Payroll for the United States

US 1094-C Employer Report Flow Enhancement for California

Updated document. Feature delivered in update 21A.

26 MAR 2021

Payroll for the United States

US 1094-C Employer Report Flow Enhancement for Rhode Island

Updated document. Feature delivered in update 21A.

26 MAR 2021

Payroll for the United States

Fee Priority for Garnishment and Creditor Debt Involuntary Deductions

Updated document. Feature delivered in update 21A.

26 MAR 2021

Payroll for the United States

Global Transfer Enhancement for Deferred Compensation Limits

Updated document. Revised feature information.

26 FEB 2021 Global Payroll Transfer Payroll Run Costs to SLA Using Payment Date From Payroll Period Definition

Updated document. Feature delivered in update 21A.

26 Feb 2021 Compensation Responsive Pages Access from Compensation Work Area

Updated document. Revised feature information.

26 Feb 2021

Payroll for Kuwait Social Insurance Segregated Components

Updated document. Feature delivered in update 21A.

26 Feb 2021

Payroll for the United Kingdom Additional Retroactive Cases for Teachers' Pension

Updated document. Revised feature information.

29 JAN 2021 Payroll for the United States Anytime Pay

Updated document. Feature delivered in update 21A.

18 DEC 2020 Global Payroll Responsive Page for Event Action Notifications

Updated document. Revised feature information.

04 DEC 2020     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 (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.

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 stand alone 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 in Release Readiness under Human Capital Management or via the Oracle Help Center under Cloud Applications > Human Capital Management.

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Benefits

Benefits

Oracle 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.

Dependent and Beneficiary Designation

Enforce dependent and beneficiary designation during enrollment for those plans or options where the administrator has configured designate dependents or beneficiaries. If you uptake this new functionality, if the participant doesn't designate any dependents or beneficiaries, they get a message letting them know that they've not selected any, and that they need to. They are prevented from moving to the next option until they do so.

The behavior is the same if the enrollment is performed through the Benefits Service Center by administrators, or by participants through Self-Service Benefits.

Benefits Person Electable Choices Diagnostic Test Report

Use the new Benefits Person Electable Choice Diagnostic Test report to review a participant’s enrollment opportunities in comparison to their actual enrolment details for started, processed, backed out and voided events. It enables you to analyze and compare the information.

The report enables the development team and support to diagnose issues related to the choices that a participant could have made in a life event where a customer has an issue they can’t resolve. This in turn will help to reduce the turnaround time resolving customer reported issues during back-out of life events, while processing fresh life events and during the enrollment flow in Benefits Service Centre and Self-Service Benefits.

Prevent Accidental Back Out of Life Events

Prevent accidental back out of life events occurring, only the most recent event can be backed out at a time to avoid backing out all the life event history. If any process leads to more than one life event for a person being backed out, the application throws an error, for example, the Evaluate Life Event process runs from the Benefits Service Center, or the Back Out Life Events process from the Evaluation and Reporting work area.

Not only does the application now throw an error, but if you access the Back Out Life Events process from the Evaluation and Reporting work area, you’ll also notice that an additional, required parameter has been added to capture the reason for back out. The parameter displays irrespective of whether the process will cause more than one life event to back out or one life event to back out.

Close Life Events After Making Elections

Close life events anytime, when required, from the Benefits Service Center. When the administrator makes enrollment elections through Benefits Service Center and submits, they receive a message informing them that the life event will be closed. If they want to close the life event and submit the enrollment, they select Yes. If they don’t want to close the life event, they select No and the enrollments are just saved and not closed, as in the previous releases.

To enable them to do this, we’ve delivered a new checkbox on the Self-Service Configuration page that works in conjunction with the Close Enrollment Period Date when defined as ‘When elections are made’, at program level.

Additional Values on Benefits

Display additional values on the Benefits Service Center and Self-Service Benefits user interfaces using page customization. The additional values you can now display are for:

  • Life Event
  • Program or Plan Name
  • Person Name
  • Person Number
  • Legal Entity ID
  • Legislation Code
  • Country Code

You can display the life event name and the program and plan names on the Self-Service Benefits Enrollment flow on the Overview and Confirmation pages. You can display the person name, person number, legal entity identity and legislation or country code on any of the Self-Service Benefits or Benefits Service Center pages. And you can also display the legislation or country code.

Other typical ways you can make use of this functionality are adding the legal disclaimer analysis link to the Summary page in Benefits Service Center, or showing the monthly bill report link for each bill where the status isn’t open, if you’ve implemented Benefits Billing.

Displaying additional values has a variety of different business values. For example, displaying the life event in the Enrollment flow helps participants know which life event is providing enrollment opportunities, and marking the date of birth as required is useful for specific countries.

Enrollment Flow as Quick Action and Deep Link

Enter the enrollment flow more directly. Participants no longer have to navigate to the Self-Service landing page to start the enrollment. Instead, they can select the People to Cover quick action task and enter the Enrollment flow to start their enrollment.

For example, Administrators can embed the People to Cover quick action as a task within a checklist or embed the Enrollments deep link URL into an existing alert.

Report on Notes

Use the newly delivered subject area in Benefits, Person Information Real Time, to report on notes previously entered in Benefits Service Centre. You can also query the notes entered across different participants. The administrator will have previously defined who can view the notes through “Who can see my note” in Benefits Service Centre - everyone, or just the administrator who entered them.

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.

Compensation

Oracle 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.

Responsive Pages Access from Compensation Work Area

Open the responsive pages of salary and individual compensation transaction pages in the Compensation work area, when you have the responsive pages profile CMP_COMPENSATION_RESPONSIVE_ENABLED and HCM_RESPONSIVE_PAGES_ENABLED enabled.

Salary Basis Type Renamed

Provide clearer understanding of what the component salary basis does by renaming the type Salary amount is determined by components to Salary amount is determined by incremental components. You use this type to itemize salary adjustments as components.

Grade Rate Overrides Using Location and Business Unit Based Salary Range Differentials Introduction

Override the grade rate of a salary basis using a grade rate type of salary range differential. For example, you create a differential that includes the location San Francisco Head Office and New York Regional Office. For these locations, you select the Premium grade rate. This grade rate will override the grade rate of the salary basis for people working in these locations.

Now, you can also define lower limit rules while specifying factors for the factor type of salary range differentials. For example, the salary range is $50 - $100, the differential factor is 0.8, and the lower limit is $50. When you apply the differential, the adjusted salary range becomes $40 - $80. But, lower limit won't let the salary range go below $50 and thus adjusts the salary range to $50 - $80.

Individual Compensation Plan Integrity Checker Introduction

Identify potential issues in individual compensation plans with the integrity checker. It can detect and report any payroll elements that were deleted without their mapping also getting removed from individual compensation plan options. This situation could result in orphan data in the individual compensation plan setup table and can cause issues in allocations. You can run the Purge Orphaned Payroll Element Setup Data from Individual Compensation Plans process to purge this orphaned payroll element setup and eligibility data from the setup tables.

Salary Standard Components

Standard Components Salary Basis Type Introduction

Define salary using a new type of salary basis that uses simple components. You can now maintain salary as a sum or collection of individual simple components. With various types of simple components, you can enter an amount or percentage that can be set to add to or subtract from the overall salary, or to be independent. For example, you have a cost of living component that's a percentage of the base salary component, and you add the calculated cost of living amount to the overall salary.

Salary Allocation with Standard Components Introduction

Allocate salary using a simple components type salary basis. This type of salary basis can support mandatory and optional simple components. These components can be user enterable, fixed, calculated based on another component, or based on a grade ladder. For example, a cost of living amount could be calculated as a percentage of a base salary component.

Salary Population from Grade Ladder Rates: Standard Components

Automate entry of salary amounts for people whose salary bases are determined by simple components, when you define rates on a progression grade ladder. You can populate the salary from grade ladder rates during HR actions, such as Hire, Promote, and Change Assignment, when the salary basis is determined by simple components. Previously, you could do this automatic population for only salary bases with the type determined by user.

Standard Salary Components Introduction in View Compensation History

View salary allocated using a simple components type salary basis on the View Compensation History page. For example, you can see that last year, the person earned $5000 as merit allowance and $3000 as cost of living allowance. And 2 years ago, they earned a $4000 as merit allowance and a $2500 as cost of living allowance.

Workforce Compensation

Audit Assignment Segment Changes

View changes to assignment segment columns in the audit trail.

Post Compensation Amounts to Salary Rates

Post and distribute compensation amounts among the editable salary rates by salary basis through user-defined configuration.

Reprocess or Add New Plan Moved to Batch Process

Complete the Administer Workers Reprocess or Add New Plan action in a new batch process.

Test Eligibility Profiles in Workforce Compensation Plan Setup

Test eligibility profiles in your Workforce Compensation plan setup without running the Start Workforce Compensation Cycle batch process.

Use Assignment Segments in Compensation Change Statements

Use assignment segment columns to display assignment segment rows in compensation change statements. 

View Manager Assignment Number When Searching in Start Process Manager Hierarchy Search Filter

View a manager's assignment number when you select a manager from the list of managers in the Start process manager hierarchy filter.

View Person And Assignment Number in Audit Export Report

View person and assignment numbers for people in the Audit Export report in View Administration Reports.

View Person and Assignment Number in the Manager Status Report

View person and assignment numbers for people in the Manager Status Report used by both managers and administrators. 

Total Compensation and External Data

External Data - Update Assignments

Transform your external data from person level to assignment level data, so that you can use assignment level security.

Total Compensation - Salary Rates as a Source

Expand your total compensation statement capabilities by using the new salary rates as a source.

Compensation Replaced or Removed Features

From time to time, Oracle replaces existing features with new features, or removes existing features.

Replaced features may be put on a path of removal, the features below will let you know what update you will have to have moved to the newer feature. As a best practice, you should move to the newer feature as soon as possible for full support and to stay up with the latest updates that the product offers.

Any feature that is removed, will have an Update in which that feature is no longer available. Please make necessary plans to move off the feature by the Update indicated, as it will no longer be available.

Removal of the SalaryVO Business Object

Know that when using Groovy or AutoComplete that SalaryVO is now renamed to Deprecated Salary, this is because it will be no longer be available as of Update 21B. We recommend that you replace the Deprecated Salary with the Salary business object as soon as possible, before April 2021.

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.

Payslips Access

Use the Global Search field to find your own payslip as an employee, or your employee's payslips as a Payroll Manager.

Responsive Page for Event Action Notifications

View the event action notifications using the new responsive page. Event action notifications are event notifications raised by action-based event groups (Event Action Groups) such as those for Time Card Resubmission or for the recalculation of payroll for retroactive late hires.

You can view the event action notifications for a worker and drill down to view the events associated with that event notification. Alternatively, you can also view all the events detected for a worker and drill down to view the event action notifications triggered by that event.

Copy Payroll Balances During Global Transfers

Carry forward assignment and relationship level balances using balance adjustments from the source to the target legal employer during the global transfer of employees. You can preconfigure the list of balances by an object group; called Process Information Group. You can trigger the balance transfer through these flows:

  • Local and Global Transfer and Mass Change Legal Employer: Select the "Copy balances to the new employment record" checkbox to initiate the copy of balances automatically after the global transfer is complete. 
  • Transfer Balances: Use this flow when you think that the balances aren’t ready on the source, and you want to initiate the copy later.

Support for SET Instruction in HDL Transformation Formulas

Configure the HCM Data Loader Transformation Formula to add SET instructions before the METADATA instruction on the HCM Data Loader DAT files. SET instructions are optional control commands that alter the default processing of the HDL file in which they appear. For example, you can set the escape character or enable payroll events on the data that is loaded using SET instructions.

Default Process Configuration Settings for Delivered Extracts

Run the delivered payroll extracts with the best-practice process configuration settings, delivered as default values for each extract. These default settings ensure optimal performance of key high-volume payroll extracts if you have not set your own values for those process configuration parameters.

For example, several high-volume extracts like the Payroll Activity Report will now generate the XML using multiple threads because the process configuration parameter "Multithreaded XML Generation for Extracts (ORA_MULTITHREADED_XML)" is set to Y by default. Until now, you would have had to set the process configuration parameter yourselves either at the time of report submission or on the default process configuration group.

Transfer Payroll Run Costs to SLA Using Payment Date From Payroll Period Definition

Transfer costing results for a payroll run by using the payroll time periods date paid in the Accounting Date for Transfer to Ledger configuration parameter.

Payroll Processing

Automatic Flow Submission for Void, Cancel and External Payment Actions

Capture and display attributes, such as the reason for the external payment, when you take corrective action on a payment in the responsive prepayment and payment results pages. A flow is automatically submitted as a result of your action and you will be able to view the status of the flow on the view flows and process results summary pages.

Enhancements to Void Process When Payments Transferred to Cash Management

Void payments in payroll after the Transfer Payment Information to Cash Management process has completed to automatically synchronize in cash management and ensure they are not reconciled.

Multiple Log Files

Identify processes returning multiple log files in the Process Results Details page.

Subledger Transaction Number Display in Process Results Details

Search for a Transfer to Subledger Accounting process details using the Subledger Transaction Number. The Process Results Details page now supports the Subledger Transaction Number along with the Payroll Relationship Number and Assignment Number.

Payment Methods

Payment Methods Responsive Page

Use your mobile device to manage payment method details with the same look and feel as your desktop. Employees or Payroll Specialist can create, edit or view payment method details with ease in the responsive pages.

Personal Payment Method Enhanced for Multiple Assignments

Use the enhanced personal payment methods to support secured multiple concurrent assignments. Now, when you turn on the assignment level security, users will only view those assignments within their person security profile. This change applies to both the editable and read-only version of the application, as well as the REST service.

Email Alerts for Personal Payment Method Changes

Send an email alert when a personal payment method is updated for an employee. You can now use the delivered template to send personalized emails to an employee when a personal payment method is created, updated or removed. Enable the predefined personal payment method alert template and modify it, such as change email content, font size, font style, add graphics or change links, to meet your communication style.

Bank Region on Payment Methods Page

Enter bank account information in the new bank region on the payment methods page and associate it to a payment method. 

Costing

Partial Period Accruals with Element Group and Relationship Group

Estimate payroll costs for a group of employees or elements now that you can run the Partial Period Accruals process using element groups and payroll relationship groups.

Cost and Reconcile Third-Party Rollup Payments

Cost and reconcile third-party rollup payments using the enhanced Transfer to Subledger Accounting, Calculate Costing of Payments and Payment Information to Cash Management processes. These processes now support rollup payments form the Run Third-Party Payment Rollup process.

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.

Quebec Labour Standards Report

Calculate and report employer liability for Quebec Labour Standards.

Global Transfer Uptake: Mass Transfer

Transfer employees in mass between legal employers easily within your organization using the global process. This process enables you to transfer Tax Credit Information calculation card values at the same time for multiple employees, thus eliminating the need to enter this data manually.

Employee Net Pay Threshold

Set a threshold amount to avoid distributing low-value employee cheques. Anything below the threshold amount is automatically applied to the Federal Tax employee tax obligation. Values above the threshold are paid to the employee normally.

Attribute Visibility Changes

Create a better user experience by leveraging changes to the display of these attributes.

  • Reporting Establishment
  • Work Relationship Legislative Information (in Resignation Info region)

These changes are delivered as Transaction Design Studio rules and make the data capture better aligned with local cultural expectations and legislative requirements.

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.

Enhanced Tax Exemption Amount YTD Calculation Now Considers TRU Association Update Date

Take advantage of the enhanced tax exemption amount year-to-date (YTD) calculation logic, which eliminates the need for you to set up the Tax Reporting Unit (TRU) Hire Date on an employee's personal Deduction Information card due to a tax reporting unit association update resulting from changing a work location, changing a legal employer, or rehiring an employee. The enhanced calculation logic uses the tax reporting unit association update date as the start date for tax exemption amount YTD calculation.

Payroll for Kuwait

Payroll for Oracle Human Capital Management 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.

Support for Social Allowances

Create standard earnings elements, and associated objects, to represent the following social allowances:

  • Cost of living
  • Housing
  • Social
  • Transport

Social Insurance Segregated Components

Comply with legislative requirements and be consistent across all sectors, to provide separate social insurance components for both private and government sector, in line with the components already provided for the oil sector.

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.

Variable Earnings Override for SDI Calculation

Stay compliant when an employee is transferred between legal employers and/or tax reporting units (TRU) or when there is a TRU association change on the Employee Tax Card.

Use the new SDI Variable Portion Override in the SDI Calculation component to specify an employee's previous bi-monthly variable earnings. This override amount will be used for the calculation of SDI (integrated daily wage).

This can also be used for any new hires/rehires where variable earnings form part of the employee's expected earnings.

Payroll for Qatar

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

Social Insurance for GCC Citizens Working in Qatar

Comply with legislative requirements that the contributory salary for certain GCC nationalities is different when calculating the social insurance contributions between employees and employers, when working in Qatar. Additional balances have been provided so you can manage the contributory salary used to calculate social insurance contributions as described in the General Retirement & Social Insurance Authority (GRSIA) website.

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.

Check TRU in Payroll Validation Report

Assist with data validation, to identify whether a valid tax reporting unit is missing. You can validate this info before the automatic creation of an employee's GOSI calculation card or gratuity calculation card.

Multi-Language Support for Online Payslip

Support multi-language online payslips in the employee's chosen correspondence language. You must enable the payslip translation parameter from setup tasks.

Additional Hazards Contributions

Comply with legislative requirements to increase Hazards contributions when required by the GOSI authority. Additional functionality at both the LDG and payroll statutory unit level is available to record the extra Hazards percentage. The GOSI calculation will apply the total rate to return the correct amount.

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.

Additional Retroactive Cases for Teachers' Pension

Update to the file for the Teachers’ MCR pension interface. This includes reporting late claims for Supply Teachers and pensionable overtime following a retroactive process.

Enable Proration for P11D Benefits

Enable the option to automatically prorate certain benefits. You can do this where the benefit year is for a calendar year and not the tax year. You can set the option at the component level for proration when multiple entries relating to the same tax year are encountered through Benefits.

Pensions Calculation Card and Automatic Association to Assignment

Associate your new hire’s assignment to the Pensions Automatic Enrolment calculation card. At the organization level, you can opt to create the association when the Pensions Automatic Enrolment card is created for new hires.

Reporting Reference Added for Court Order CMSDEO

Identify the employee’s CMSDEO using the separate references and ensure error free processing of the attachment order. The identifiers available are:

  • Reporting Reference
  • Unique Reference, that's a required field

Masking Authentication Information at Organization Level

Take advantage of the additional complex authentication processes introduced by HMRC for Real Time Information web services. Use the hidden authentication value option and longer passwords to encrypt them for tightened security of your data submission.

Updates to Teachers' Pension MCR Report Process Flow

Generate the MCR report based on an additional parameter. You can do this based on different combinations of MAT or Payroll Provider Number, Local Authority Number, and Establishment Number. Additionally, you can update the archive to add the case number if an issue reported by TPS is resolved in this period.

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.

Global Transfer Enhancement for Involuntary Deductions

Include employee Involuntary Deductions card and its components when you perform a global transfer. When you choose to copy calculation cards as part of the payroll details, the transfer process now includes the person's Involuntary Deduction card and its components. 

Suspend Involuntary Deductions

Simplify your payroll processing by suspending eligible involuntary deductions. Use the new Suspend Involuntary Deduction Processing calculation value on the Involuntary Deductions calculation card to suspend the deduction and exempt it from payroll processing. 

Global Transfer Enhancement for Tax Card Synchronization

Streamline the Global Transfer process when transferring an employee back to one of their previous legal employers. The process automatically updates the previous legal employer Form W-4 info from the source employer.

Global Transfer Enhancement for Deferred Compensation Limits

Include employee deferred compensation info when you perform a global transfer. The Global Transfer process now copies the appropriate details from the source payroll statutory unit (PSU) to the destination PSU. This includes all 401(k), Roth 401(k), 403(b), Roth 403(b), 457 (b), and Roth 457 (b) plan types.   

Work Relationship Legislative Information Hidden on Termination

Simplify the termination process with the automatic masking of unneeded work relationship info. Multiple fields that are not commonly required for US Human Resources are now hidden by default. However, you can use the Transaction Design Studio to display them.

Anytime Pay

Provide employees the ability to access their pay on-demand for their hours worked using employee self-service. This feature is available using the new quick action from the employee’s landing page.

Fee Priority for Garnishment and Creditor Debt Involuntary Deductions

Improve the accuracy of your involuntary deduction calculations through the prioritization of processing fees for Garnishment and Creditor Debts. The payroll process now automatically determines the legislative priority rule for these deduction types and applies it during its calculations. 

US 1094-C Employer Report Flow Enhancement for California

Comply with Affordable Care Act (ACA) reporting requirements with the inclusion of California employee data. The US 1094-C Employer Report flow now supports reporting for California.

US 1094-C Employer Report Flow Enhancement for Rhode Island

Comply with Affordable Care Act (ACA) reporting requirements with the inclusion of Rhode Island employee data. The US 1094-C Employer Report flow now supports reporting for Rhode Island.

Health Reimbursement Arrangement Support for Affordable Care Act Reporting

Improve the accuracy of your Affordable Care Act (ACA) reporting through the support of Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs). If your organization offers an HRA plan, you can use new fields to configure your benefits plan, your legal entities, and your employees.

HR Optimizations

Workforce Rewards Transactional Business Intelligence

Oracle 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.

Don’t want to start from scratch building a report or analytics? Check out the library of sample reports for all products on Customer Connect on the Report Sharing Center.

Benefits

Reporting on Benefits Notes

Enhance your reporting on Benefits with the addition of the notes dimension.

Compensation

Compensation Change Statements Enhancement in Compensation Subject Areas

Enhance your reporting on compensation statements that are part of the compensation plans for workers.

Grade Rate Value in Salary Subject Areas

Enhance your reporting in the salary subject areas with the inclusion of the actual value of the grade rate along with the existing range values like high, mid, and low.

New Attributes to Stock Details Real Time Subject Area

Enhance your reporting on Compensation-Stock Details Real Time subject area with the inclusion of new attributes related to stock details.