Oracle Workforce Rewards Cloud 21C New Feature Summary

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OCTOBER MAINTENANCE PACK FOR 21C

Revision History
Overview
Workforce Rewards-Pre 21D
1. Benefits

SEPTEMBER MAINTENANCE PACK FOR 21C

Revision History
Overview
Workforce Rewards-Pre 21D
Payroll
1. Payroll for the United States
  1. 1. Anytime Pay Notification to Employees

Update 21C

Revision History
Overview
Workforce Rewards-Pre 21D
Benefits
1. Benefits
Compensation and Total Compensation Statement
1. Compensation
Payroll
HR Optimizations
1. Workforce Rewards Transactional Business Intelligence

October Maintenance Pack for 21C

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
24 SEP 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.

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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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Date	Product	Feature	Notes
27 AUG 2021			Created initial document.

Date	Product	Feature	Notes
24 SEP 2021	Compensation/ Compensation History	Assignment Switching Introduction in Compensation History	Updated document. Revised feature information.
30 JUL 2021	Compensation / Salary	Offered Salary Not Defaulted to 0	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 21C.
03 JUN 2021			Created initial document.

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

Workforce Rewards-Pre 21D

Benefits

Use the New Saving Plan Calculators

Use the new Saving Plan Calculators to explore the amounts you could contribute, or to perform ‘What if?’ types of calculations. For example, using the Health Savings Account HSA Calculator, your participants can estimate future values, earnings and tax savings for their health savings accounts.

The three calculators we deliver, out of the box, are:

The Health Savings Account HSA Calculator
The Dependent Care FSA Calculator
The Health Care FSA Calculator

The Health Care Flexible Spending Account FSA Calculator enables participants to estimate their potential tax savings, whereas the Dependent Care FSA Calculator enables them to see how much more they can save by enrolling in a flexible spending account.

Use the Enhanced Self-Service Benefits Pages

Use the enhanced Self-Service Benefits pages to perform your enrollments more easily. The first enhancement is to waive plans or options. Previously, when participants elected waive plans during enrollment, the participant appeared as 'You' in the ‘Covered’ section of the waive plan on the Confirmation page. Now, the 'Who's covered? You' section in the Enrollment flow has been removed where the participant has enrolled in a waive plan or options.

Secondly, if a participant elects a plan or option where there is no monetary value, we no longer annualize the rate and show it. Now, if the unit of measurement is anything other than money or null, the participant only sees the primary rate. The annual rate is hidden.

And lastly, if you want your participants to see the Confirmation page displaying all the plans that the employee is enrolled in an expanded state, you can do so. This is useful, for example, for your participants who want to see all the detail, and don’t want to click to expand each plan they are enrolled in. Participants can of course collapse the plans, if they require.

Record Personal Info on the Renamed Before You Enroll Page Feature is from a customer submitted idea.

Record personal info using the new Personal Info region in Self-Service Benefits. Now, your participants can enter their own personal habit details, instead of the administrator having to do it for them. We’ve added this new region to the existing People to Cover page, which we’ve now renamed to "Before You Enroll". This new page title reflects that participants are entering the information ready to enroll into benefits.

You can use the information your participants enter, especially around tobacco usage, to drive the rates and plans, if your organization has different rates and plans for smokers. For example, a participant can enter or updates that they are a tobacco user outside of open enrollment. When the open enrollment process runs, it picks up that the employee is a tobacco user and the participant will see the rates for smokers, as they are identified as a smoker in the system.

You’ll see the new name change to Before You Enroll irrespective of whether you uptake the new Personal Info region in Self-Service Benefits or not.

Delete Next Change for Rates

Delete next change for rates functionality is useful if you made any rate changes by mistake, or if you used incorrect dates for changes, and so on. Basically, you’ll be removing the next change made.

You can find this new feature on the Rates and Coverages page, on the Standard Rates and Variable Rate Profile tabs.

You can also delete the next change using the loaders too.

Compensation and Total Compensation Statement

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.

Workforce Compensation

Secure Workforce Compensation Plan Setup

Prevent people from accessing or viewing plan setup by using a new configuration option and security privilege to limit who has access to plan setup data.

Configure Workforce Compensation Notifications at the Plan Level

Configure Workforce Compensation cycle notifications by enabling or disabling them at the plan level.

Configure Save and Close for Worksheet Tasks

Choose how managers save their worksheets. The choices are Save and Close with a drop-down save, or side by side buttons.

Disable Outside Defined Limits Alert

Disable the Outside Defined Limits alert from triggering when the amount in the Compensation Amount column is outside of the values of the Compensation Minimum and Compensation Maximum columns.

Use Individual Worker Display to View and Update Standard Components

Use Individual Worker Display to view and update standard components in Workforce Compensation.

Link User-Defined Columns to Plan Components

Enhance the worksheet experience for managers by linking user-defined columns to plan components. When you link a column to a component and a person is ineligible for that component you can't edit the column.

Configure Predefined Alerts and Prevent from Displaying in the Alerts Filter

Configure the predefined alerts and prevent them from displaying in the alerts filter in the workforce compensation worksheet.

Enable Additional Columns in the Communicate Task

Enable additional columns, such as compensation amount, plan, and component eligibility, to let managers know about which people were eligible for and received compensation during the compensation cycle.

View Additional Attributes for Currency Conversion in Active Plans

Use new attributes in the Currency Conversion Rates section of Active Plans to better understand how currencies are converted to the plan or corporate currency.

Individual Compensation

Copy Individual Compensation Awards during Local and Global Transfer

Copy current and future individual compensation awards from the source legal employer to the destination legal employer during Local and Global Transfer. For this copy to happen, the legislative data group of the element linked to the individual compensation plan option has to be same for both legal employers.

Individual Compensation Plan Synchronized with Projected Start Date Introduction

Synchronize the individual compensation plan start and end dates with the projected start date defined in the offer. The dates are synchronously maintained to recompute the plan start and end dates whenever the projected start date changes. For example, you define the projected start date as January 1, 2022 and the plan will start on the same date. Later you revise the projected start date to February 1, 2022, and when you get to the individual compensation section, the existing plan date is then adjusted to February 1, 2022 to align with the new projected start date.

Alternatively, you can define a duration so that the plan start and end dates are calculated not as the same projected start date, but while considering an interval or duration. For example, you can define the sign-on bonus to start 1 month after the offer projected start date. When the recruiter proposes a projected start date of March 1, 2022, the plan start date is computed as April 1, 2022.

You can also determine whether the recruiter can change the calculated date while awarding the plan. When the recruiter changes the calculated date, the synchronization can no longer happen automatically and they will have to manually intervene for every change in the projected start date.

When the individual compensation row is end dated in the offer, the end date is carried forward to the pending worker stage, but not beyond the Convert Pending Worker action.

Salary

Preserve Salary Data for Changes in When Date

Preserve salary detail in transactions, such as Change Salary and Promote, if you change the when date before submitting the transaction or during approval.

Audit of Standard Components Introduction

Audit salary changes when the salary basis determines the salary amount using standard components.

Performance Improvements on Salary Range Differential Profile Pages

Search for and make changes to differential details of a salary range differential profile. When you have many differentials defined in the salary range differential profile, searching and making changes to a particular differential wasn't easy. Now, you can use query by example to easily find details and quickly make changes to the results that match your search criteria. For example, you can search for a location, business unit, compensation zone, factor, or grade rate and make changes to all of the results.

Offered Salary Not Defaulted to 0

Leave the salary amount blank instead of defaulting it to 0 when the recruiter selects a salary basis while drafting an offer.

Autocomplete

Autocomplete Rules for Salary Business Object in Compensation

Enhance people's experience when authoring new rules for the salary business objects with these new features added to the Salary business object:

Improve productivity and save time by using the delivered rules to set default values and add validation in salary flows. Here's some examples:
- You can set a default salary basis depending on the Job FLSA code.
- You can validate the salary basis frequency depending on whether the assignment is full time or part time. You can also validate if the next salary review date is within 1 year of the salary start date and that the salary amount isn't 0. And, you can validate that the salary amount proposed during a promotion isn't less than the current salary.
Access current and historic salary details while defining autocomplete rules using the new view accessors Get Existing Salary and Get Existing Salary History.

Compensation History

Assignment Switching Introduction in Compensation History

View the related compensation history for their assignments by switching the business title. For example, Chris is a manager for their primary assignment and an individual contributor for their second assignment. Select Chris's individual contributor business title to see the corresponding compensation history.

Grade Step Progression

Grade Step Progression: New Choices for Progression Increment and Option to Use Ceiling Step

Simplify your progression logic by using new options in your grade ladder definitions. The progression increment attribute now includes additional choices which limit the number of grades and steps that are evaluated for progression. For example, you can configure the grade ladder so that only the next step is evaluated. Or you can configure the grade ladder so that the process stops at the ceiling step.

New Validation of Grade Details in Grade Step Progression

Improve accuracy by identifying data discrepancies impacting grade step progression. We added three new validations related to current and proposed grades, to the batch processes.

Revised Grade Step Progression Child Process Names

Identify the child processes that are launched when you submit Run Grade Step Progression and Synchronize Grade Step Rates batch processes more easily. The child processes are now named Grade Step Child Process and Accept Updates.

Stock

Stock Calculation and Display

Increase accuracy and productivity of stock management with enhancements to stock calculations and the display of shares.

Market Data

Market Data Inclusion of Positions

Extend the usefulness of Market Data with the ability to match internal positions to survey jobs.

Total Compensation Statement

Total Compensation Statement Period Display Name and Item Tester Enhancements

Enforce unique period display names and validate compensation items with these new enhancements.

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.

Enhancements to View Process Information Group

Secure the View Process Information Group Quick Action with a new privilege. Also restrict data access based on users' Person Security Profile.

Use the PAY_RESPONSIVE_PERSON_SEARCH_CLASSIC_ENABLED profile option to enable Responsive Person Search on this Quick Action.

Generate HCM Rates for a Payroll Relationship Group

Reduce the number of employees included in the Generate HCM Rates process. You can now enter a payroll relationship group parameter when you submit the rates process. This feature supports both static and dynamic payroll relationship groups.

Manage Element Entries using REST API

Manage element entries using the REST API. You can now create, update, or delete an element entry using the elementEntries resource.

Responsive Page for Run Results

View the run results using the new responsive page. Run Results are the calculation results of payroll processes, such as payroll calculation, quick pay, payroll reversal, balance adjustment, and balance initialization.

Reference Enhancement for Voluntary Deduction Elements

Streamline the processing and reporting of voluntary deductions using a reference value. You can specify a reference whilst creating a voluntary deduction element entry. The reference will now be used to maintain balances and arrears which are specific to the element entry. For example, use the reference feature to maintain individual loan balances when an employee has multiple loan deductions.

If required, you can use the delivered input default formula to generate a unique reference for each voluntary deduction element entry.

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.

Global Uptake: Enhanced Support for Voluntary Deductions

Support enhanced voluntary deduction loan processing using a new input value called “Deduction Reference”, which maintains a unique reference number for the voluntary deduction loan.

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.

Social Insurance Customization

Support the ability to override delivered calculation value definitions used to calculate social insurance deductions, after you've had agreement from your social insurance office.

Social Insurance for GCC Citizens Working in Kuwait

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 Kuwait. Additional balances have been provided so you can manage the contributory salary used to calculate social insurance contributions as described in the Public Institution for Social Security (PIFSS) website.

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 Customization

Support the ability to override delivered calculation value definitions used to calculate social insurance deductions, after you've had agreement from your social insurance office.

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.

Gratuity Calculation Validation

Pay gratuity amounts in excess of the legislative limits. The gratuity formula will now check for an override amount first. This allows you to pay gratuity to an employee on probation, without creating a customized formula.

Payroll for the United Arab Emirates

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

Social Insurance for GCC Citizens Working in the UAE

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 the UAE. Additional balances have been provided so you can manage the contributory salary used to calculate social insurance contributions as described in the General Pension and Social Security Authority (GPSSA) website.

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.

Employee Reference to BACS File for CMS DEO Court Order Payments

Use the new option DEO output Employee Reference to BACS at the PSU level or TRU level, on the Organization Information EFF: UK Tax Reporting Unit Details page, to send individual BACS records containing the employee's Order Reference for CMS DEO court order payments.

England School Workforce Census

Record additional information for organization, person, employment, and contract for reporting in the England School Workforce Census. Configure your grades, absences, and payment information for accurate reporting. Validate your setup with a diagnostics report. You can generate the England School Workforce Census, and validate your XML output with Errors and Warnings and School Summary reports.

Redesigned Page for Benefits and Pensions Calculation Card

Experience the redesigned user interface for the Benefits calculation card for Pensions that allows easier navigation to relevant information in a single place, with the ability to expand or collapse sections to view and manage your employee information.

Payroll for the United States

Global Transfer Enhancement for Reporting Information Cards

Include the Reporting Information 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 Reporting Information card and its components.

Anytime Pay REST Services

Use the Anytime Pay REST services to enable the functionality without using Quick Action. You can call PayAdvances > CheckEligibility to ensure that the employee satisfies all conditions required to request a pay advance, and call PayAdvances > RequestAdvance to initiate the pay advance request. This action creates an element entry with the requested amount, and submits a pay advance flow to process the request, including producing the Electronic Funds Transfer file.

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.

Payroll

Assignment Level Security on Payroll Subject Areas

Enhance your reporting on payroll subject areas with the uptake of assignment level security on a few of the subject areas.

Additional Attributes to Payroll Subject Areas

Enhance your reporting on payroll subject areas with the addition of attributes related to payroll action and payroll relationship action.

OTBI Payroll 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.

Payroll Dashboards Discontinued

Take note that the following dashboards based on Payroll are removed from the OTBI seeded catalog:

Payroll Flow Details Dashboard
Active Processes Dashboard

NOTE: If you need to continue working on these dashboards, these are published here on Customer Connec t. You will need to download and unarchive the catalog to the following path - \\Shared folders\Custom\Human Capital Management