July Maintenance Pack for 20B

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	Feature	Notes
26 JUN 2020		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 (20A, 20B, 20C, and 20D)
• 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.

This document outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in Oracle HCM Cloud. Each section includes a brief description of the feature, the steps you need to take to enable or begin using the feature, any tips or considerations that you should keep in mind, and the resources available to help you.

In addition to this document you will also want to review the Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud Functional Known Issues and Maintenance Packs (Document ID 1554838.1). These documents identify bug fixes and possible known issues. You will also need to review these documents based in the release update version you are currently on or will be moving to.

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 Talent and Compensation products.

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.

GIVE US FEEDBACK

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Feature Summary

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.

MyCSP Support for Extending Assignment Category

You can use extended lookup codes to provide a mapping between user-defined and predefined Assignment Category lookup values. This ensures that an employee associated with a user-defined assignment category triggers the Part-Time History, Short-Time Hours History, and Service History files, when required.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

MyCSP Ability to Report Partial Retirees in Part-Time History and Short-Time Hours History Files

You can use this feature to report partial retirees in both Part-time History and Short-Time Hours History files.

Currently, only Assignment Categories prefixed with “Part-Time” trigger the generation of records in Part-Time History and Short-Time Hours History files. However, partial retirees must be reported in the same way as part-time employees. This enhancement ensures both Part-Time History and Short-Time Hours History are extended to include employees with an assignment category of Partial Retirement, or a user-defined assignment category mapped to this category.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

June Maintenance Pack for 20B

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	Feature	Notes
31 JUL 2020	Payroll/Payroll for the United States: Enhancements to SUI Wage Credit Calculation	Updated document. Revised feature information.
29 MAY 2020		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 (20A, 20B, 20C, and 20D)
• 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.

This document outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in Oracle HCM Cloud. Each section includes a brief description of the feature, the steps you need to take to enable or begin using the feature, any tips or considerations that you should keep in mind, and the resources available to help you.

In addition to this document you will also want to review the Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud Functional Known Issues and Maintenance Packs (Document ID 1554838.1). These documents identify bug fixes and possible known issues. You will also need to review these documents based in the release update version you are currently on or will be moving to.

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 Talent and Compensation products.

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.

GIVE US FEEDBACK

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Feature Summary

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.

Improved My Dashboard Page in Benefits Service Center

The improved Benefits Service Center Dashboard now loads more quickly even for a large population of data. On the Home page, click Benefits Administration > Enrollment. We enable 8 counts out of the box, and you can see 4 counts when you initially launch the My Dashboard page:

Initial View of Benefits Service Center Dashboard

You need to click Show More to see the other counts.

How You Display and Sequence the Counts

Though this feature is delivered for ready to use, you can configure how the counts appear on the dashboard. You can hide the counts for those areas that you are not interested in. For example, you can hide People with unpaid bills if your enterprise doesn’t use the Billing feature. You can show the counts for those areas that you are really interested in. For example, you can show People with closed life events. Ensure that you keep a minimum of four items selected.

Also, you can change the display sequence of the counts based on their significance and your priority. For example, if you want to see People with pending actions first, you can adjust the sequence. Here’s how you configure the counts:

1. Click Navigator > Others > Setup and Maintenance.
2. Open the Manage Common Lookups task and search for the ORA_BEN_RESP_SUMMARY lookup type.
3. Configure the counts:
   1. Select or deselect the Enabled checkbox to enable or disable the counts. This example shows 5 lookup codes to display the corresponding counts on the dashboard:

      Updated Lookup Codes

   2. Change the display sequence of the counts by changing the number in the Display Sequence field. In the previous example, the display sequence of People with life events waiting to process is 2. You can change its sequence to 6 so that it moves down on the dashboard:

      Updated Display Sequence

   3. Click Save and Close.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Payroll

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.

Override SUI Wage Limits

We have made it easier for you to control State Unemployment Insurance (SUI) calculations through the addition of state unemployment wage limits. You can now set limits for SUI wages for your Payroll Statutory Units (PSUs) or your Tax Reporting Units (TRUs). These settings override your US legislative data group's predefined limits. Limits you set at lower levels override those at higher levels.

1. To set this override at the PSU level, start the Legal Entity Calculation Card task from your implementation project.

To set it for a TRU, start the Legal Reporting Unit Calculation Card task. This overrides any value you set on the PSU card.

2. Search for and select the calculation card.

3. In Component Groups, expand Regional.

4. Select the state node. Add it if doesn't already exist.

5. Select State Unemployment for the state you are updating.

6. Click Enterable Calculation Values on Calculation Cards.

7. Click Add.

8. In Display Value, select SUI Wage Limit for Employer or SUI Wage Limit for Employee, as appropriate.

9. In Amount, enter the new wage limit. This must be a positive number.

10. Click OK.

11. Click Save and Close.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

For further info, see Configure Organization Calculation Cards for the US in the Oracle Help Center.

Enhancements to VETS Reporting

We have enhanced the VETS-4212 report to better comply with the Department of Labor requirements. This includes:

• You can now enter up to 8 digits in the Maximum and Minimum Number of Employee fields. Set this through the Location task from your implementation project.

• The report now counts active employees based on your pay cycle date. Use Payroll Period Start Date when running the report to identify the start date of your pay period.

Steps to Enable

To receive this report enhancement, request the June 12th Cumulative Weekly Bundle (CWB) by logging a Service Request through My Oracle Support.

Enhancements to EEO-1 Reporting

We have enhanced the EEO-1 Component 1 report in the following ways:

• For employees who have self-identified as non-binary, their counts now appear in the EEO Audit Detail report. When you submit the E-text file, you can enter these counts in the additional remarks or relevant information box as “Additional Employee Data”.

Additional Remarks or Relevant Information Box

• The report process automatically replaces hyphens with spaces in the TRU (Unit Name) and Address (Unit Address) entries of the E-text file.

Steps to Enable

To enable this feature you need to log a Service Request (SR).

To receive this report enhancement, request the June 12th Cumulative Weekly Bundle (CWB) or a later CWB by logging a Service Request through My Oracle Support.

Tips And Considerations

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission provides complete instructions on how to report non-binary employees on the EEO Component 1 report. For further info, see the EEOC's website.

Check Limit Taxes for Your Organization

This feature will help you control how the payroll process tracks limit taxes if your organization structure contains multiple Tax Reporting Units (TRUs) within a Payroll Statutory Unit (PSU).

By default, all federal taxes with limits (such as Social Security and FUTA) are tracked at the PSU level. All state taxes with limits (such as SUI and SDI) are tracked by the individual TRU.

You can now choose to track federal and state taxes by individual TRUs or across all TRUs within a PSU. Perform this configuration before your first payroll run of the calendar year.

To enforce state-level tax limits across all TRUs in a PSU:

1. Start the Legal Entity Calculation Cards task from your implementation project.

2. Search for and select your PSU calculation card.

3. In Calculation Card Overview, click Federal.

4. Click Federal Income Tax.

5. Click Enterable Calculation Values on Calculation Cards.

6. Click Add.

7. In Display Value, select State Tax Limit Enforcement Level.

8. In Value, enter PSU.

9. Click OK.

10. Click Save and Close.

To enforce federal-level tax limits at the individual TRU level:

1. Start the Legal Reporting Unit Calculation Cards task from your implementation project.

2. Search for and select your TRU calculation card.

Do this for each of your TRU cards.

3. In Calculation Card Overview, click Federal.

4. Click Federal Income Tax.

5. Click Enterable Calculation Values on Calculation Cards.

6. Click Add.

7. In Display Value, select Federal Tax Limit Enforcement Level.

8. In Value, enter TRU.

9. Click OK.

10. Click Save and Close.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

For further info, see Configure Organization Calculation Cards for the US in the Oracle Help Center.

Enhancements to SUI Wage Credit Calculation

Enforce how the payroll process calculates SUI wage credits for employee transfers. With this feature, by default, Louisiana, Minnesota, Montana, and Pennsylvania don't give credit for other work states. For those states, it now resets the person's SUI wage bases after the transfer. It doesn't give any credit for time worked in the previous state.

Some states only give credit if certain conditions are met. You can now enforce this at the Payroll Statutory Unit (PSU), Tax Reporting Unit (TRU), and individual employee levels.

To change the default SUI wage credit calculation for your organization:

1. To set it for a PSU, start the Legal Entity Calculation Cards task from your implementation project.

To set it for a TRU, start the Legal Reporting Unit Calculation Cards task from your implementation project.

2. Select State Unemployment for the state you are updating. Add it if doesn't already exist.

3. Click Enterable Calculation Values on Calculation Cards.

4. Click Add.

5. From Display Value, select Credit Employer SUI Wages Earned in Other States.

For states that also have employee SUI tax, such as Pennsylvania, do this for Credit Employee SUI Wages Earning in Other States as well.

6. For those states that give credit, enter N in Value to revoke it.

For those states that don't give wage credit, enter Y to begin granting it.

7. Click OK.

8. Click Save and Close.

For Maryland, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington, you can set this on an individual employee's tax card:

1. From My Client Groups, click Payroll.

2. Click Calculation Cards.

3. Search for and select the person.

4. Open their Tax Withholding card for editing.

5. Select Edit for the state component you are updating.

6. In Withholding Exemption, identify whether or not the state grants SUI credit for wages earned in other states.

SUI Credit for Wages Earned in Other States

7. Click Save and Close.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

For further info, see Configure Organization Calculation Cards for the US in the Oracle Help Center.

May Maintenance Pack for 20B

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	Feature	Notes
28 APR 2020		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 (20A, 20B, 20C, and 20D)
• 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.

This document outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in Oracle HCM Cloud. Each section includes a brief description of the feature, the steps you need to take to enable or begin using the feature, any tips or considerations that you should keep in mind, and the resources available to help you.

In addition to this document you will also want to review the Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud Functional Known Issues and Maintenance Packs (Document ID 1554838.1). These documents identify bug fixes and possible known issues. You will also need to review these documents based in the release update version you are currently on or will be moving to.

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 Talent and Compensation products.

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.

GIVE US FEEDBACK

We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content. Please send us your feedback at oracle_fusion_applications_help_ww_grp@oracle.com. Indicate you are inquiring or providing feedback regarding the HCM Cloud What’s New for Release 13 in the body or title of the email.

Feature Summary

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.

Colorado SIT Calculation Enhancement

This feature will improve the accuracy of your Colorado State Income Tax (SIT) calculations.  A new field on your organization calculation cards allows you to select either the Worksheet or the Percentage SIT withholding methods.  As of 2020, Colorado has implemented a new Worksheet method for SIT calculations.  However, you can opt to continue using the previous Percentage withholding method.

Steps to Enable

To select your calculation method:

1. To select the method for your Payroll Statutory Unit (PSU), start the Legal Entity Calculation Cards task from your implementation project.

To select it for your Tax Reporting Unit (TRU), start the Legal Reporting Unit Calculation Cards task.

What you select at the TRU level will override what you select for the PSU.

2. Open your organization calculation card for editing.
3. Under Component Groups, select your CO regional node.

Add it if it doesn't exist.

4. Under Calculation Components, select the State Income Tax row.
5. Click Enterable Calculation Values on Calculation Cards.
6. Click Add, and search for and select State Income Tax Withholding Method.
7. To use the Worksheet method, enter 1 as the amount.

To use the Percentage method, enter 2.

State Income Tax Withholding Method

8. Click OK and then Save and Close.

Tips And Considerations

The Worksheet method is the default. If you opt to use this method, no action is required.

Key Resources

For additional info on the new Worksheet calculation method, contact Colorado’s state tax authority.

For additional info on organization calculation cards, search for Configure Organization Calculation Cards for the US in the Help Center.

Update 20B

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	Feature	Notes
29 MAY 2020	Payroll for the US: Involuntary Deductions Audit Report	Updated document. Revised feature information.
28 APR 2020	Benefits: Send Email Alerts to Participants Automatically	Updated document. Revised feature information.
28 APR 2020	Benefits/US Benefits: Updated Washington DC Filing Guidelines for ACA	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 20B.
27 MAR 2020	Global Payroll Redesigned User Experience: Copy Payroll Info During a Legal Employer Change	Updated document. Revised feature information.
27 MAR 2020	Payroll for the UK: Enhancement to HMRC Automated File Upload	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 20B.
06 MAR 2020		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 (20A, 20B, 20C, and 20D)
• 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.

This document outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in Oracle HCM Cloud. Each section includes a brief description of the feature, the steps you need to take to enable or begin using the feature, any tips or considerations that you should keep in mind, and the resources available to help you.

In addition to this document you will also want to review the Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud Functional Known Issues and Maintenance Packs (Document ID 1554838.1). These documents identify bug fixes and possible known issues. You will also need to review these documents based in the release update version you are currently on or will be moving to.

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 Talent and Compensation products.

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.

GIVE US FEEDBACK

We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content. Please send us your feedback at oracle_fusion_applications_help_ww_grp@oracle.com. Indicate you are inquiring or providing feedback regarding the HCM Cloud What’s New for Release 13 in the body or title of the email.

Feature Summary

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.

Send Email Alerts to Participants Automatically

You can now set up and send personalized emails to participants automatically using the alert templates.

You can:

• Schedule some type of alerts. You can schedule an email alert for open enrollment to notify participants automatically. For example, you can notify participants 2 weeks before the enrollment begins. You can schedule an email alert to send automatic reminders to participants to review their benefits choices, and you can also email a summary of the benefits that the participants selected. 

• Notify participants automatically when specific events occur. You can notify participants when their uploaded documents are approved or rejected. These types of alerts are generated based on certain events, so you can’t schedule these alerts manually.

On the Navigator menu, open Tools, and click Alert Composer to launch the Alert Composer page. 

You can use the templates that we provide out of the box or modify them to meet your business needs. For example, you can change the template’s font style and add your company logo and hyperlinks of your website. You can test the modified template to ensure that everything works well before you send it to the participants. You can also change when and how scheduled alerts are sent to the users, and so on.

You can either enable all the notifications that we provide or enable only specific notifications.

Sample Email Alert

Email Template

Steps to Enable

The feature is ready for use, but you need to make some setup changes to use the alerts feature:

1. Click Navigator > Tools > Alert Composer.

2. On the Alert Composer page, you can select and configure the following templates that we have delivered:

• BEN_DOCUMENT_APPROVAL
• BEN_OPEN_NOTIFICATION
• BEN_OPEN_REMINDER
• BEN_ELECTIONS_SUMMARY

NOTE: You can elect to enable all the notifications we provide or enable only the ones you want to use.

Key Resources

For more information see the following:

• Watch Enhanced Benefits Administrative Features Readiness Training

• White Paper - Overview of Benefits Alerts (Document ID 2632765.1)

• Oracle Help Center Guide to the Implementing Global Human Resources Guide - Chapter 15 on Alerts Composer

Suppress Authorization Page in Benefits Service Center

Benefit administrators can now show or hide the Authorization Page in the Enrollment flow launched from the Benefits Service Centre. However, even if you hide the page in Benefits Service Centre, it can still remain visible to participants in the self-service pages.

Authorization Page

Steps to Enable

1. In the Plan Configuration work area, select Self-Service Configuration. 

2. Setting to show or hide the authorization page
3. Deselect the Display Authorization in Benefits Service Center check box to hide the Authorization page.
4. Click Save.

Key Resources

Watch Enhanced Benefits Administrative Features Readiness Training

Enhanced Diagnostic Reports

The enhanced diagnostic reports provide statistics to help you resolve setup issues and other day-to-day issues, such as those that pertain to certifications. You can share these reports with Oracle Support more quickly and easily to resolve setup or person certification issues. 

Here’s a summary of the enhancements:

• The new parameter, Compute Statistics, enables you to re-compute the statistics for benefits transaction tables if they are found to be stale. This parameter is now available in the Benefits Setup Diagnostic Test report. The default value is No.
• You can use the new sections in the Benefits Setup Diagnostic Test report to see profile values related to logging the PL/SQL tracing and the new responsive user interface. There are sections that show these details:
  • Alert configuration details.
  • Recently failed alerts.
  • Rate start date code set for flex credit ledgers. This section is related to a lookup value. 
  • Details of Benefits relationship post-termination. 
  • Stale statistics details for key benefits transaction tables. This information is useful for resolving issues with very large employee populations or complex benefit plan designs, or a combination of both.
• New sections in the Person Benefits Diagnostic report enable you to see certification details for participants, dependents, and beneficiaries. 

To view the Benefits Setup Diagnostic Test and the Person Benefits Diagnostic report, click the logged in user's icon, and click Run Diagnostic Tests in the Troubleshooting section. Then, search for Benefits Setup Diagnostic Test or Person Benefits Diagnostic report.

Input Parameters

Enhanced Benefits Setup Diagnostic Test

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

Watch Enhanced Benefits Administrative Features Readiness Training

Benefits Redesigned User Experience

Increase user satisfaction with the redesigned pages that now have the same look and feel on desktop and mobile devices. These redesigned pages are both responsive and easy to use on any device, with a modern look and conversational language. Clutter-free pages, with clean lines and just the essential fields, can be personalized to suit.

Simplified Configure Default Benefits Relationships Page

You can now define default benefits relationships easily by using the simplified Configure Default Benefits Relationship page. Several fields have been removed and the page is less cluttered and easier to use.

In the Setup and Maintenance work area, search for and open the Configure Default Benefits Relationships task.

Simplified Configure Default Benefits Relationship Page

If you want to define a new default benefits relationship, follow these steps:

1. Select the New icon in the Configure Default Benefits Relationships page.
2. Select the life event or unrestricted as the usage.
3. Select the country where you want to implement the default benefits relationship. 
4. Select Primary as the Benefits Relationship Model
5. Select the effective date range for the default benefits relationship. 
6. Click Save.

To view the old fields, click View > Columns, and select the columns you want to view. These fields are read-only.

If you add a new assignment to a work relationship where work relationships already exist, the benefits relationship now automatically gets updated.

Three new parameters are added to the Assign And Update Benefit Relations process to delete or end date benefit relationships in bulk. You typically use this feature if you’re moving from the Unrestricted model to the Life Event model. Here are the new parameters:

• Benefits Relationship to Delete: You can select whether you want to delete the life event type of benefits relationship or the unrestricted type of benefits relationship.
• Mode of Deletion: You can select whether you want to delete the relationship or end date it.
• End Date: If you have selected End Date as the mode of deletion, you can set the date on which you want to end the benefits relationship.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

Watch Enhanced Benefits Administrative Features Readiness Training

US Benefits

Updated New Jersey Filing Guidelines for ACA

We have simplified your New Jersey Affordable Care Act (ACA) reporting for the 2019 reporting year. Our 1094-C output file now includes New Jersey-specific health-care coverage returns for minimum essential coverage.

When using the Run US 1094-C Employer Report process, select NJ as the state to include all eligible New Jersey employees. Leave blank for all other jurisdictions.

State Field

This report includes any employee who has lived in NJ for at least 1 day in the reporting year.

The data will be in the same format as the Federal 1094-C electronic file.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

New Jersey has not yet mandated this state-specific reporting for 2019. However, they will still accept this state-specific file.

Key Resources

For further information, see Oracle Cloud Human Capital Management for United States: ACA Implementation and Use (Document ID 2067360.1) on My Oracle Support.

Updated Washington DC Filing Guidelines for ACA

We have simplified your Washington DC Affordable Care Act (ACA) reporting for the 2019 reporting year.  Our 1094-C output file now includes Washington DC-specific health-care coverage returns for minimum essential coverage.

When using the Run US 1094-C Employer Report process, select DC as the state to include all eligible Washington DC employees.  Leave blank for all other jurisdictions.

State Field

This report includes any employee who has lived in DC for at least 1 day in the reporting year.

The output format is in .txt format for reporting.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

For further info, see Oracle Cloud Human Capital Management for United States: ACA Implementation and Use (Document ID 2067360.1) on My Oracle Support.

Enhanced Eligibility Profile

Benefits administrators can now set city and state as the eligibility parameters. For example, you can create an eligibility profile to make only those employees in California state or in the city of Miami eligible for the health insurance plan. In another example, you can also make all employees in California state eligible, except for the employees in the city of Redwood Shores.

In the Plan Configuration work area, open Eligibility Profiles and click Home Location on the Personal tab. The new parameters are available for both participant and dependent eligibility profiles.

Enhanced Eligibility Parameters

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

Watch Enhanced Benefits Administrative Features Readiness Training

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.

Currency Switching Introduction

You can now view monetary compensation values in your preferred currency. By default, monetary compensation is in worker local currency. You can change the currency to your preferred currency, such as GBP – Pound Sterling. This currency switcher behaves the same across all compensation pages and sections, including Manage Personal Contribution, Administer Individual Compensation, Individual Compensation and Change Salary.

Monetary Values on the Compensation Spotlight Page Are in the Worker's Local Currency

Monetary Values on the Compensation Spotlight Page Are in GBP - Pound Sterling, the User's Preferred Currency

Monetary Values on the My Team Compensation Page Are in the Worker's Local Currency

Monetary Values on the My Team Compensation Page Are in USD – US Dollar, the User's Preferred Currency

Monetary Values on the Change Salary Page Are in the Worker's Local Currency

Monetary Values on the Change Salary Page Are in GBP - Pound Sterling, the User's Preferred Currency

Monetary Values in the Personal Contribution Section Are in the Worker's Local Currency

Monetary Values in the Personal Contribution Section Are in GBP - Pound Sterling, the User's Preferred Currency

Steps to Enable

In Transaction Design Studio, you need to create a rule with Currency to Use set to Visible for these actions:

• Compensation Info
• Change Salary
• Individual Compensation
• Personal Contribution
• Administer Individual Contribution
• Salary and Individual Compensation Region in flows such as Hire, Promote, Transfer
• My Team Compensation

Design Studio Rule that Makes Currency to Use Visible on the Compensation Info Page

Design Studio Rule that Makes Currency to Use Visible on the My Team Compensation Page

Design Studio Rule that Makes Currency to Use Visible on the Manage Personal Contribution Page

Design Studio Rule that Makes Currency to Use Visible on the Change Salary Page

Tips And Considerations

• The currency switcher’s behavior is the same on the Manage Personal Contribution, Administer Individual Compensation and Individual Compensation pages.
• The currency switcher uses the exchange rates with the Corporate Rate type defined using the Manage Daily Rates task.

Assignment Switching Introduction

When a person has multiple assignments, you can view the related compensation information for their active and suspended assignments by switching the business title. For example, see the compensation information of the second assignment where the person is an individual contributor, while they are a manager in the primary assignment.

The Compensation Information for the Person as a ZCMP Payroll Manager

My Compensation Information for the Person as a ZCMP Manager

My Compensation Information for the Person as a ZCMP HR Specialist. 

The Actions menu options apply to the assignment for the current business title. For example, you can submit a personal contribution for the ZCMP Manager assignment. 

 Manage Personal Contributions Action Applies to the Assignment for the Selected ZCMP Manager Business Title

Steps to Enable

In HCM Experience Design Studio , you need to create a rule with Business Title set to Visible for these actions:

• My Compensation
• Compensation Info

Design Studio Rule that Makes Business Title Visible on the Compensation Info Page

Design Studio Rule that Makes Business Title Visible on the My Compensation Page

Tips And Considerations

Assignment switching is available in Compensation Info and My Compensation actions.

Populate Salary from Grade Ladder Rates: Proposed Salary Less Than Current

You can now configure compensation so that the proposed salary may be less than the current salary when the salary is set by progression grade ladder rates during HR actions. Examples of HR actions are when you hire, transfer, or promote someone. Previously, you got a warning message stating that the salary won't be updated because the proposed grade rate or step rate isn't greater than the current salary. You could complete your HR action, but then you needed to manually reduce the salary in a separate action. Now, if configured, the proposed salary will be set by the progression grade ladder rate, even if it's less than the worker's current salary.

In this example, the Transfer action was configured to display the Grade Ladder, Grade, and Step attributes. When her manager transfers Charlene Wong, her grade is updated from Nurse 2 to Nurse 1. She's also placed on step 1 of the new grade, which has a lower rate than her current salary.

Updating Grade and Step During a Transfer

The Transfer action is also configured to include the Salary section. When Charlene's manager comes to that section of the transfer, she sees that Charlene's salary is automatically set by the rate associated with step 1 of the Nurse 1 grade. When her manager submits the transfer, Charlene's salary will be updated with the lower rate.

Salary Is Automatically Set by the Step Rate

Steps to Enable

Here's the general configuration for the Populate Salary from Progression Grade Ladder Rates feature, which was introduced in the 17B What's New. If you aren't yet using this feature, then you need to complete these tasks to populate the salary from your grade ladder rates during HR actions:

1. Set up your rates using the Progression Grade Ladders task, not the Manage Grade Ladders task.

• Set Include Salary Updates to Yes
• Set Salary Calculation Method to Use grade step rate

2. Ensure that your workers are assigned to a salary basis with the salary basis type of Salary amount is determined by user.
3. Include the Salary section in your HR action. For responsive pages, this may require configuration using Transaction Design Studio in HCM Experience Design Studio.

• Exception: Manage Employment doesn't need to include the Salary section. All other employment flows need to include the Salary section to set the salary.

4. Include the Grade Ladder, Grade, and Step attributes in your HR action. For responsive pages, this will require configuration using Transaction Design Studio in HCM Experience Design Studio.

• Exception: If your grades don't have steps, then you won't need to include the Step attribute in your HR actions.

Additionally, if you want to allow the proposed salary to be less than the current salary you need to complete these steps:

1. In Setup and Maintenance, use the Configure Global Compensation Settings task:
   • Offering: Compensation
   • Functional area: Base Pay
2. Scroll to the Grade Step Progression section of the page.
3. Under the heading Online Settings, select the Update salary if proposed salary is less than current salary check box.

Configure Global Compensation Settings

Watch a Demo

Tips And Considerations

• The new configuration option only affects online HR actions. The Run Grade Step Progression and Synchronize Grade Step Rates batch processes still prevent the proposed salary from being less than the current salary.
• The warning messages introduced in 17B aren't yet implemented for the responsive pages.

Key Resources

• Watch Populate Salary from Grade Ladder Rates: Proposed Salary Less than Current Readiness Training
• For information about the underlying feature, introduced in release 17B, refer to the What's New for 17B: Populate Salary from Progression Grade Ladder Rates
• For information on the distinction between grade ladders and progression grade ladders, refer to the following:
  • Using Global Human Resources for the following topic: FAQ for Manage Grades, Grade Rates, and Grade Ladders > What's the difference between grade ladders and progression grade ladders
• For information on using HCM Data Loader to create or update progression objects, refer to the following:
  • Integrating with HCM guide for the topic Loading Compensation Objects, Guidelines for Loading Progression Grade Ladders
  • Integrating with HCM guide for the topic Loading Compensation Objects, Examples of Loading Progression Grade Ladders with Steps
  • Integrating with HCM guide for the topic Loading Compensation Objects, Examples of Loading Progression Grade Ladders without Steps

• Refer to the document below on My Oracle Support (MOS) for information on using HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader to update attributes for grade step progression.

  • Grade Step Progression: Using HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader to Add Progression Attributes to Grade Ladders (Document ID 2569831.1)

Stock Grants: New Columns and New Action

We've added more columns to Stock Grants. Now you can track Vest Date, Exercise Date and Cancellation Date. Also, you can use the new miscellaneous columns to add more data as required, into Miscellaneous Text 1-5, and Miscellaneous Number 1-5. We've added a new action called "Delete Search Results Records", that you can use to more easily remove unwanted rows in the stock table.

New Columns and New Action in Stock

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Total Compensation Statement: Position, Drilling and Fast Formula

We've added the ability to select job, position, or neither, for display on the Total Compensation Statement header. Previously you could only display job. Multiple assignments functionality has not changed, and job only displays at the category level.

Statement Header Display Field

You can now uncheck the include category line item detail sections checkbox to suppress drill down within sections in the online statements. Previously you could only suppress this for printable statements. The summary section will always have drilling.

Include Category Line Item Detail Sections Checkbox

Did you ever want to see the results of your fast formula, prior to generating statements? Now you can do that, by using the new fast formula tester.

Fast Formula Tester

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Individual Compensation

Individual Compensation Approval Notification Enhancements

View awarded details in post-approval notifications. The data model and notification for the BI Publisher based reports were enhanced to source data from the Compare List attributes so that there is performance improvement and you can see these details too.

Sample FYI Notification Showing the Updated Award Details

Sample FYI Notification Showing the Deleted Award Details

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

• The improved notification is part of workflow notifications associated with these tasks: Manage Personal Contribution, Manage Compensation, and Administer Individual Compensation. It's generated for all the new transactions initiated after the upgrade, and notifications generated before the upgrade won't be affected.
• If you have built custom notifications on top of the seeded data model, you will be impacted and those will now stop showing details. You will either have to rebuild the notification using the new data model or take a copy of the pre-upgrade data model, and reference it in the custom notification.
• If you have built custom notifications on top of a custom data model, then you will not be impacted. It is however recommended that you compare the seeded data model with your custom data model, and uptake any changes needed.

Salary Range Differentials and Compensation Zone

Grade Rate Overrides Using Compensation Zone-Based Salary Range Differentials Introduction

You can now configure factors or grade rate overrides for zone-based salary range differentials when you select the differential type. Let's look at an example of the grade rate override using two new hires. The employment details for the first new hire shows the person will start with the ZCMP IC1 grade and their work location will be at headquarters in Redwood Shores.

Employment Details for the First New Hire, Including Their Starting Grade and Work Location

The proposed salary for the first new hire is 150 USD annually and has the base salary range of 123 – 345 USD. The compensation zone derived for their Redwood Shores work location is Premium (West Zone).

Salary Details for the First New Hire, Including Their Compensation Zone and Base Salary Range

The employment details for the second new hire show that this person will also start with the ZCMP IC1 grade. But, their work location will be New York.

Employment Details for the Second New Hire, Including Their Starting Grade and Work Location

The proposed salary for the second new hire is also 150 USD annually. But, the base salary range is 100 – 200 USD. The compensation zone derived for their New York work location is Base (East Zone).

Salary Details for the Second New Hire, Including Their Compensation Zone and Base Salary Range

The salary for both new hires has the same salary basis. That salary basis includes the RJ Override Differential Profile, which overrides the grade rate for the Premium (West Zone) compensation zone.

Salary Basis Configuration Indicating the Salary Range for ZCMP IC1 as 100 to 150

Differential Profile Configuration Indicating to Use a Different Grade Rate for Premium (West Zone) Compensation Zone

You can see the salary range overrides for the override grade rate when you click the Differential Profile icon on the salary basis.

Differential Profile Dialog Box that Shows the Minimum, Maximum, and Midpoint Salary Amounts for the Premium (West Zone) Compensation Zone

Steps to Enable

First, create a compensation zone salary range differential that uses the Grade Rate type.

1. Click Navigator > My Client Groups > Compensation.
2. On the Compensation page, click Salary Range Differentials.
3. On the Salary Range Differentials page, click Create.
4. On the Create Salary Range Differential page, in the Properties section, complete the required fields.
5. In the Criteria field, select Compensation Zone.
6. In the Type field, select Grade Rate.
7. Select the compensation zone type to associate with the salary range differential.
8. In the differentials section, add the differentials for the compensation zones.
   1. Select a compensation zone.
   2. Select the grade rate.
9. Save and close the salary range differential.

Next, associate the salary range differential with a salary basis.

1. On the Compensation page, click Salary Basis.
2. On the Salary Basis page, search for and select the salary basis you want to add the salary range differential to. Or, click Create to create the salary basis.
3. On the edit or create salary basis page, Salary Ranges tab, select the differential profile.

To see the compensation zone differentials and overridden minimum, midpoint, and maximum amounts for a grade, click the Differential Profile icon next to the Differential Profile field.

Tips And Considerations

There are certain limitations for you to consider before you start using zone-based differentials with salary bases:

• You can see the overridden salary ranges, compensation zone type, and zone fields on only the responsive pages of these actions: Change Salary, Hire, Promote, Transfer, Change Location, Add Assignment, Change Legal Entity, Local and Global Transfer, Compensation Info, My Compensation Info. You can't see the adjusted salary ranges on any classic pages.
• You need to run the Generate Compensation Zone and Address Mapping process mandatorily at regular interval to see the adjusted salary ranges in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence Reports, Oracle Fusion Workforce Compensation.
• You can't identify the compensation zone type or zone for a specific date in the past or future. Currently, salary pages and processes identify the zone type and zone using the system date.

Key Resources

For more information about the new compensation zones, see the following document on My Oracle Support:

• Salary Range Differentials and Compensation Zones (Document ID 2605772.1)

Compensation Zone Attributes Introduced in Salary Notifications

The Change Salary notification from Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher now displays compensation zone attributes for the salary.

Sample Change Salary Page Showing the Salary Details Are Calculated Using a Compensation Zone-Based Salary Differential Profile

Sample Change Salary Notification Showing the Compensation Zone Type and Compensation Zone Attributes and Values.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

For more information, see the following documents:

• The 20A Workforce Rewards What's New, look under Compensation and then at the features under the heading of Salary Range Differential and Compensation Zones.
• White Paper on My Oracle Support - Salary Range Differential and Compensation Zones (Document ID 2605772.1).

Compensation Zone Criteria and Grade Rate Type Profile Loading Introduced in Salary Range Differential HDL Object

You can now create salary range differential profiles of compensation zone, business unit, and compensation zone criteria using HCM Data Loader. You can also load salary range differential profiles of type Grade Rate.

Sample HDL File for a Salary Differential Profile that Uses the Criteria Compensation Zone

Sample Differential Profile Created Using the Sample Compensation Zone HDL File

Sample HDL File for a Differential Profile of Type Grade Rate

Salary Range Differential Profile Created Using the Sample Grade Rate HDL File

Here are the new attributes available in the Salary Range Differential object for HCM Data Loader:

Attributes	Description	Comments
Criteria	Criteria of the differential profile, such as Location, Business Unit, or Compensation Zone, used to calculate the salary ranges.	The existing attribute now supports ZONE and BU_ZONE values.
GeographyTypeId	Unique identifier for the compensation zone type.	You can source the identifier from the HZ_GEOGRAPHY_TYPES_VL table.
GeographyTypeName	Name of the compensation zone type.	You can source the name from HZ_GEOGRAPHY_TYPES_VL table.
RangeDiffType	Type of differential profile, such as Factor or Grade Rate.	Valid values are FACTOR and GRADE_RATE.
ProcessWfhFlag	Indicate whether to consider remote worker addresses for differential processing.	Value values are Y and N.
AddressType1	For remote worker processing, the first address type to check.	LOOKUP_TYPE=’ADDRESS_TYPE’
AddressType2	For remote worker processing, the second address type to check.	LOOKUP_TYPE=’ADDRESS_TYPE’
AddressType3	For remote worker processing, the third address type to check.	LOOKUP_TYPE=’ADDRESS_TYPE’

Here are the new attributes in Salary Range Differential Values object for HCM Data Loader: 

Attributes	Description	Comments
GeographyId	Unique identifier for the compensation zone.	You can source the identifier from the HZ_GEOGRAPHIES table.
GeographyZoneType	Name of the compensation zone type.	You can source the name from the HZ_GEOGRAPHY_TYPES_VL table.
GeographyName	Name of the compensation zone.	You can source the name from the HZ_GEOGRAPHIES table.
GradeRateId	Unique identifier for the grade rate.	You can source the identifier from the PER_RATES_F_TL table.
GradeRateMinimumLimit	Lower limit for the identified grade rate.
Frequency	Frequency that the lower limit value is defined in, such as MONTHLY or ANNUALLY.
Annualization Factor	Annualization factor for the lower limit value, such as MONTHLY or ANNUALLY.
GradeRateName	Name of the grade rate when the differential profile type is Grade Rate.
LegislativeDataGroupName	Name of the legislative data group where the grade rate is defined.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

For more information see the following:

• The 20A Workforce Rewards What's New, look under Compensation and then at the features under the heading of Salary Range Differential and Compensation Zones.
• White Paper on My Oracle Support - Salary Range Differential and Compensation Zones (Document ID 2605772.1).

Workforce Compensation

Add Description to Dynamic Column Conditions

You can now add a description to the dynamic column conditions. The new description column supports up to 1600 characters. Click the edit icon next to the column to add or change text.

New Description Section in Dynamic Column Conditions

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Back Out Compensation Data More Efficiently

Back out compensation data more efficiently with multi-threading. The Back Out Workforce Compensation Data process now operates simultaneously, or in parallel, through multiple threads.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Test Formula Moved to Drill-Down Page

Use the new drill-down page in the Formula Tester to more easily test compensation default and override formulas in Workforce Compensation setup.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Use New Search Options in the Worksheet

You can now use person number and email address to search for workers in the worksheet. Previously, only worker name was an option. To use the new searches, you must enable the search action in plan setup for each Compensation task type.

New Search Options

You also need to enable the corresponding worksheet column.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

View Salary Range Differentials by Geo Zone in the Worksheet

You can now see salary range differentials by geo zone in the worksheet. 

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

You must run the Generate Compensation Zone and Address Mapping process before compensation zone values show in the worksheet.

Key Resources

For more information see the following;

• Workforce Rewards 20A What's New for the feature Compensation Zone Introduction.
• The Salary Range Differential and Compensation Zones Links white paper on My Oracle Support (Document ID 2605772.1)

Streamlining of the Modeling Process

We've streamlined the modeling process by removing the save option on the Select Workers page. The save option in that page is only for that run of the model. Future runs reevaluate the eligible workers and overwrite the previous save.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Display Market Composites in Workforce Compensation

We enhanced the workforce compensation worksheet to display market composites. Now you can see worker compensation data compared to the market, for the job and location they are in. Previously you had to use User Defined Table, BI reports, or fast formulas to display market data.

You enable the market composites in Workforce Compensation Plans > Configure Worksheet Page Layout > History, Notes, Attachments and Market Composites. After you select them there, you can also see the composites displayed in Administer Workers.

Composites appear as an iconic column. You can select the icon to display the dialog box. Then you can compare the salary increase allocation to the market target.

Enable the composites in the worksheet setup.

Select the effective date to use in the plan cycle.

Enable the composites in the Individual Worker View.

View the composites in Administer Workers.

Finally, you can also now see the composites under the Market Data task.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

• Be sure to define a Market Composites Effective Date in Configure Plan Cycles. This shows up in the Start Plan validation alerts if you forget.
• You can define Market Targets in Market Data, Compensation Types. Label compensation types the same as component display names, to help line managers make the connection between them. For example if you have a component called Shares, name the compensation type Shares.
• Load only the data in composites that you want to display in the worksheet for that Plan Cycle effective date. For example if you want to display the 10th, 50th and 90th percentile only, then don't load the 25th percentile.

Key Resources

You may want to load market data first. For more information see:

•  Loading Market Data Using HCM Data Loader (Document ID Document 2513871.1)
• Market Data TOI

Use the new Market Data - Real Time subject area to help you create composites from survey data. If you already have composites, then you can load them in Market Data, Import Composites. For more information see the:

• 20B Workforce Rewards What's New. Under Transactional Business Intelligence/ Compensation you will find information on the new feature New Compensation Subject Area - Market Data Real Time, also see the report sample on customer connect.

After you create composites, you can load them into the composites table. For more information see the:

• Workforce Rewards What's New for 19D feature Import Market Composites

Test Performance Documents Before Starting a Compensation Plan

You can now validate worker performance document and rating data before you start a compensation cycle.

Test Performance Document

Previously, you had to start the compensation cycle before you could view performance rating data.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Generate Compensation Change Statements in Bulk from Workforce Compensation

You can now generate compensation change statements in bulk from the Communicate task in Workforce Compensation. Previously, you could only generate statements for up to 10 people. To use the new feature, you must set the Statement and Delivery method to "Printed and delivered by managers". When managers use the Communicate task, they see a new option under Generate Statements.

New Generate Statements Option

After you select "Manager Hierarchy" you go to the new bulk statements page.

New Bulk Statement Generation Page

You can select any worksheet manager that reports to the selected manager. You can also include the statement for that manager.

Statement Generation Including Worksheet Manager

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

You're not required to stay on the page while the statement file is being generated. After the file is created, if you leave the page without downloading it the file will be deleted and you'll need to regenerate it again.

Control Release of Stored Compensation Change Statements

You can now control when people are able to access their compensation change statement in employee self-service from the Communicate task. Previously, when you updated the visibility to include people they were able to access the statements immediately. This enhancement enables managers to communicate awards to workers and make statements available to them right after.

To use the feature, in the Configure Compensation Change statement setup choose "Centrally managed and stored" as the Statement Delivery method. Enable the new "Allow staggered release of statements" check box and save.

New Setup Check Box

Once enabled and statements are generated, worksheet managers see the following when accessing a statement:

New Release Statement Check Box

If people have more than one statement available to them, you need to release each statement separately.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

View Budget Amounts by Country in Budget Consumption Report

You can now view worker-level budget amounts by country in the Budget Consumption report in View Administration Reports. Previously, you could see only the overall totals. Manager-level budgets remain the same, however, people can see compensation amounts listed by country.

The Budget Consumption report now has a new iconic column, called Budget Usage by Country.

New Iconic Column

When you click the icon you see a window with the amounts listed by country.

Budget Amounts Listed By Country

When you use manager-level budgets, only compensation amounts are listed by country.

Manager-Level Budget View

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Configure OTBI Reports In Individual Worker Display

You can now add OTBI reports in Individual Worker Display.

When you configure an OTBI report in the page, you add a new section, using the content type of Predefined Content.

New Section Configuration Showing Predefined Content

After you create the new section, choose OTBI Analytics from the list of values in Predefined Content.

Predefined Content Type of OTBI Analytics

After you save, click the Properties icon.

List Of Available OTBI Reports

After you select a report, you can rename it.

Selected OTBI Report

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

All OTBI and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) reports that you save in the /shared/Custom/Human Capital Management/Compensation folder are available to add to a Workforce Compensation plan, including Individual Worker Display.

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.

Rate Definition Support for Retained Grades

Calculate a rate based on the retained grade information for an employee. For example, you can calculate a salary rate based on the retained grade ladder, retained grades, and retained grade step information defined for an employee.

NOTE: The retained grade rate information is captured on the assignment flexfield.

When you define a rate definition, you can select a grade rate as a basis for the rate calculation and specify the employment level.

In your rate definition, you add a rate contributor of type Retained Grade.

Calculate Rates Based On Retained Grades

1. Set up grades, grade ladder, and rates for the given job to record the levels of compensation.
2. Set up an assignment extensible flexfield with the Retained Grade context.
3. Create a rate definition based on grade details. Add a rate contributor of type Retained Grade Ladder.
4. Hire the employee and provide the required retained grade and step details on the Additional Assignment Info page. In the Retained Grade section, Primary Indicator field, select Yes.
5. Run the Generate HCM Rates Process to calculate the rates based on the information held for the employee in the retained grade additional assignment info.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Quickpay and Quickpay Pre Payments Consolidation Set Support

Use the consolidation group parameter to consolidate multiple QuickPay runs and QuickPay Prepayment runs to meet these requirements:

• Combine the results of multiple QuickPay runs into a single post processing task to generate payslips, payments, and reports.
• Combine results of payroll and Quickpay runs into a single post processing task to generate payslips, payments, and reports.
• Ensure separate post processing for the payroll and QuickPay runs.

NOTE: The payroll, QuickPay, and QuickPay Prepayment runs must be run for the same payroll.

By default, the delivered QuickPay, QuickPay Prepayments, and the Simplified QuickPay flow uses the default consolidation group that is assigned to the payroll. To change this value, use the Consolidation Group parameter while defining parameters for the QuickPay flow.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Enable Late Hires To Be Processed by the Recalculate Payroll for Retroactive Changes Process

You can now process late hires in the Recalculate Payroll for Retroactive Changes process. Late hires are employees hired into a previous payroll period where the regular payroll has already been processed. Late hires are now detected and processed when regular payroll results exist for a date later than the employee's hire date.

For example, for a payroll with a Payroll Period Start of 01-Mar-2019, Payroll Period End of 31-Mar-2019, Date Earned of 31-Mar-2019 and Process Date of 02-Apr-2019 and the employee is hired on 01-Mar-2019, a retro hire event is triggered because process date and date earned are both later than the payroll assigned date for the employee. However, if employee is hired on 01-Apr-2019 a retro hire event will not be triggered because, although process date is later, date earned is earlier than the payroll assigned date for the employee.

In the example of the late hire employee hired on 01-Mar-2019, a dummy payroll action for the late hire employee is created causing the employee to appear within process results for that payroll with action status Retroactively Added.

Once feature is enabled and you late hire the employee on 01-Mar-2019, complete these payroll steps to recalculate payroll for the retroactive changes:

1. Assign Payroll
2. Verify Process Results
3. Assign Element Entries
4. Assign Calculation Cards
5. Run Retro Payroll Process
6. Verify Results
7. Run Regular Payroll
8. Verify Process Results

Steps to Enable

Create a new Event Group and Event Action for your Legislative data group. Refer to detailed steps in Enable Late Hires to be processed by the Recalculate Payroll for Retroactive Changes Process Whitepaper containing zip files to be used as a reference. These zip files must be modified to your requirements and uploaded using HDL.

Derive Bank Account Number from IBAN

You can now create a bank record by entering only the International Bank Account Number (IBAN) instead of both the bank account number and the IBAN. When you create a bank record, a bank account number must be provided, now this feature derives the bank account number from the IBAN and populates the account number field.

Steps to Enable

1. Navigate to the Setup and Maintenance work area.
2. Select Workforce Deployment from the choice list at the top of the page.
3. Click the Change Feature Opt In link.
4. On the Workforce Information row, click on the Features pencil icon
5. Select the Enable check box for the feature named Derive bank account number from IBAN.
6. Click Done to return.

Tips And Considerations

The IBAN has replaced the bank account number as the primary identifier in the majority of the European, Middle Eastern, and Caribbean countries. The IBAN structure and length varies from country to country. This feature is for countries where the IBAN is used according to Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) guidelines.

XML Data Chunking in High Volume Extracts

Run the following payroll extracts for larger data sets using the XML Data Chunking feature of BI Publisher.

• Payroll Activity Report for the Latest Process
• Statutory Deduction Register for the Latest Process
• Payroll Register for the Latest Process

You can split large volumes of report output into manageable chunks of XML files, to facilitate parallel processing and later be merged into a single report. The XML data chunking capability in BI Publisher reduces the time and memory used for processing large data. 

You cannot use this functionality for PDF and text output of the report.

Steps to Enable

Use a process configuration group to enable BI Publisher to do the chunking of the high volume XML extract output.

Create a Payroll Process Configuration Group and set the Parameter to 'Y' and use this process configuration group to run the report.

Tips And Considerations

• Although the output for each chunk is merged into a single Excel workbook, the output for each chunk will be in a separate worksheet in that workbook. 
• Although the XML size at which BI Publisher performance begins to improve significantly by this feature can vary between customers due to extraneous factors beyond the control of the report, it is recommended to turn this feature on for report XML sizes greater than 1 GB.

Key Resources

For more information see the following:

• Common Technologies and User Experience 19C What's New under Reporting and Analytics for the BI Publisher feature XML DATA CHUNKING FOR EXTREMELY LARGE DATA SETS.

New Report - Payroll Register Report for the Latest Process

You can now run the Payroll Register Report for the Latest Process enhanced report to extract the archived Year to Date (YTD) payroll balances for large volumes of data.

The new report uses a much lighter report template with enhanced performance and scalability capabilities to handle high volumes of data. You can now run the report to produce CSV/text output that is easily imported into the Excel format. This is in addition to the PDF and Excel outputs we already support.

In addition to YTD, you can also extract payroll balances for the following:

• Month to Date
• Period to Date
• Quarter to Date
• Inception to Date

The report produces the same output as running the existing Payroll Register Report with the ‘Latest Process YTD Totals Only’ field set to ‘Yes’. However, for large volumes of data, the enhanced report runs much faster.

Steps to Enable

The new report is enabled out-of-the-box, but produces an output with Year to Date (YTD) balances only. However, if you want to extend the report to display one or more of the 4 additional dimensions, follow the steps below.

1. Determine which of the 4 additional balance dimension types (PTD, MTD, QTD, and ITD) you want to report and for which balances.
2. Determine the appropriate balance group for each balance. This can be done by looking up the balance groups for the Global Archive report type under the Balance Group Usages page.
3. For each balance group usage, determine the appropriate balance dimension name that has the relevant contexts. Use the existing balance group usage item for YTD as a reference. For example, if the balance dimension name used for YTD is Relationship Tax Unit Year to Date, you should use Relationship Tax Unit Period to Date for PTD.
4. Ensure that the defined balances exist i.e., the balance is associated with the required balance dimensions determined above. This can be done from the Balance Definitions page.
5. Ensure that the defined balance is part of the balance group determined in the above step. This can be done from the Balance Groups page.
6. Add Balance Group Usage Items for the dimension within each Legislative Data Group and balance group usage determined above.

Tips And Considerations

• Use the existing Payroll Register Report for periodic reporting of balances. The new report is meant for reporting YTD balances as of the last process run on or before the specified end date.
• If you have configured changes to your existing extract definition, including but not limited to delivery options, report templates, and so on, then those must be reapplied to the new report, if required.
• For very large data sets, it is quicker to run the Text (CSV) format and then import it into Excel instead of producing an Excel directly.

Pay Work Area Security

Employee pay data and functions are secured with the Access My Pay privilege. If you are using custom versions of the Employee role, you must assign this privilege to secure the "Pay" tile. Navigation: Me > Pay

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

If you are using the predefined Employee Abstract role, there are no steps necessary to enable this feature. If you are using user-defined roles, you must add the appropriate privileges to enable access. Assign or update privileges or job roles with PAY_ACCESS_MY_PAYROLL to make the feature accessible to your custom Employee roles. Details are provided in the Role Information section below.

Key Resources

For more information on roles or privileges refer to the following document on My Oracle Support:

•  Upgrade Guide for Oracle HCM Cloud Applications Security (Document ID 2023523.1)

Role Information

Work Area	Privilege	Role
Pay	Access My Pay PAY_ACCESS_MY_PAYROLL	Employee

NOTE: If you are using the predefined roles, no action is necessary. However, if you are using custom versions of these roles, you must ensure that your custom role have the privilege that secures the "Pay" tile.

REST API

View Payslips Using REST API

Use the payslips resource to view the list of all payslips for a given relationship. A payslip provides a record of individual payroll payments received, including pay amounts, deductions taken, and accruals. You can submit a GET request on the payslips resource to view your latest payslip or last few payslips. For example, salaried employees might want to view their payslips if they anticipate a change in their pay as a result of bonus or benefit enrollment changes.

Steps to Enable

Review the REST service definition in the REST API guides, available from the Oracle Help Center > your apps service area of interest > REST API. If you're new to Oracle's REST services you may want to begin with the Quick Start section.

Make the feature accessible by assigning or updating privileges and/or job roles. Details are provided in the Role section below.

Role Information

You require this aggregate privilege to use the payslips payroll REST API. Assign this privilege to your custom roles as appropriate.

Aggregate Privilege	Description
Use REST Service - Payslips Read Only (ORA_PAY_REST_SERVICE_ACCESS_PAYSLIPS_RO)	Contains all functional and data security privileges required to view payslips. This includes the "Use REST Service - Payroll Relationships Read Only" (PAY_REST_SERVICE_ACCESS_PAYROLL_RELATIONSHIPS_RO_PRIV) functional security privilege.

Manage Personal Payment Methods Using REST API

You can use the REST API resource to manage personal payment methods of your employees. Use the personalPaymentMethods resource to create, update, or delete personal payment methods.

Create a Personal Payment Method

For example, Bob signed up for electronic fund transfer payments and effective Jan 1 2020, you use the personalPaymentMethods resource to create a payment method for him. Before creating a personal payment method, you must create an organization payment method and select it using the organizationPaymentMethodsLOV LOV. Also, you must create the bank account and its details. You can use the externalBankAccounts REST resource to create bank accounts.

Retrieve Personal Payment Methods

You can retrieve a personal payment method based on either the assignment number or person number as shown in the snippet below:

personalPaymentMethods?finder=findByAssignmentNumberPersonNumber;PersonNumber=<PersonNumber> personalPaymentMethods?finder=findByAssignmentNumberPersonNumber;AssignmentNumber=<AssignmentNumber>

Steps to Enable

Review the REST service definition in the REST API guides, available from the Oracle Help Center > your apps service area of interest > REST API. If you're new to Oracle's REST services you may want to begin with the Quick Start section.

Make the feature accessible by assigning or updating privileges and/or job roles. Details are provided in the Role section below.

Role Information

You require these aggregate privileges to use these payroll REST APIs. Assign these privileges to your custom roles as appropriate.

Aggregate Privileges	Description
ORA_PAY_REST_SERVICE_ACCESS_PERSONAL_PAYMENT_METHODS	Contains all functional and data security privileges required to view and manage personal payment methods. Granted the following functional security privilege: PAY_REST_SERVICE_ACCESS_PERSONAL_PAYMENT_METHODS_PRIV Note: For the create (POST) operation, grant the user the following aggregate privilege to verify that if the organization payment method belongs to a legislative data group: ORA_PAY_REST_SERVICE_ACCESS_PAYROLL_REFERENCE_DATA_LOVS
ORA_PAY_REST_SERVICE_ACCESS_PERSONAL_PAYMENT_METHODS_RO	Contains all functional and data security privileges required to view personal payment methods. Granted the following functional security privilege: PAY_REST_SERVICE_ACCESS_PERSONAL_PAYMENT_METHODS_RO_PRIV

Organization Payment Method List of Values REST API

View a list of all organization payment methods within the organization using the organizationPaymentMethodsLOV LOV. For example, you can view a list of organization payment methods of an employee by providing an assignment number or person number. Use the findByAssignmentnumber finder to retrieve the organization payment methods by assignment number of a person.

The license set on the Manage Features by Country or Territory page determines the list of organization payment methods as shown below:

• If the license is Human Resources or Payroll Interface, then the LOV contains all OPMs for a given LDG.
• If the license is Payroll, then the LOV contains those OPMs that are defined as valid OPMs on the employee's payroll definition.

Here’s an example to find all organization payment methods based on assignment number:

organizationPaymentMethodsLOV?finder=findByAssignmentNumber;AssignmentNumber=<AssignmentNumber>

NOTE: This REST service is view-only. You can only select an organization payment method value from a LOV, you can’t create or edit them.

Steps to Enable

Review the REST service definition in the REST API guides, available from the Oracle Help Center > your apps service area of interest > REST API. If you're new to Oracle's REST services you may want to begin with the Quick Start section.

Make the feature accessible by assigning or updating privileges and/or job roles. Details are provided in the Role section below.

Role Information

You require this aggregate privilege to use the organizationPaymentMethodsLOV payroll REST API. Assign this privilege to your custom roles as appropriate.

Aggregate Privilege	Description
ORA_PAY_REST_SERVICE_ACCESS_PAYROLL_REFERENCE_DATA_LOVS	Contains all functional and data security privileges required to view organization payment methods. Granted the following functional security privilege: PAY_REST_SERVICE_ACCESS_PAYROLL_REFERENCE_DATA_LOVS_PRIV

Payroll Flow Instances and Payroll Flow Patterns LOVs

Select a payroll flow instance or a payroll flow pattern using a REST API.

Flow Instance LOV

The flowinstancesLOV resource includes a list of values for the payroll flow instance that are created when a payroll flow is submitted. For example, you can use this resource to view a list of flow instances in a custom user interface. Further, you can view all attributes of the flow instances.

Flow Patterns LOV

The flowpatternsLOV resource includes a list of values for payroll flow patterns. For example, you can use this resource to view a list of flow patterns, such as Calculate Payroll or a custom extract.

NOTE: These REST services are view-only. You can only select a payroll flow instance or a flow pattern from a LOV, but you can’t create or edit them.

Steps to Enable

Review the REST service definition in the REST API guides, available from the Oracle Help Center > your apps service area of interest > REST API. If you're new to Oracle's REST services you may want to begin with the Quick Start section.

Make the feature accessible by assigning or updating privileges and/or job roles. Details are provided in the Role section below.

Role Information

You require these aggregate privileges to use these payroll REST APIs. Assign these privileges to your custom roles as appropriate.

Aggregate Privilege	Description
ORA_PAY_REST_SERVICE_ACCESS_PAYROLL_FLOW_PATTERN_LOVS	Contains all functional and data security privileges required to view a list of payroll flow instances, flow patterns, and flow parameters.

Payroll Flow Parameter Values LOV REST API

Select a payroll flow parameter value using a REST API. The flowparametervaluesLOV resource provides the list of values for payroll flow parameter values.

Flow parameters are a subset of task action parameters. They supply the information required to successfully complete the tasks in the flow pattern. Parameters can vary based on the flow pattern.

For example, you can use the flowparametervaluesLOV resource to view a list of values for a payroll parameter when submitting the Calculate Payroll flow for the US legislative data group. You can use the findbyWord finder with LegislativeDataGroupId and FlowParameterId finder variables to retrieve the values for a flow parameter that match the specified criteria.

Here’s an example of the cURL command where the

• LegislativeDataGroupId value for a US Legislative data group is USLDG.
• FlowParameterId for the Payroll parameter in the Calculate Payroll flow pattern is XYZ. 

flowParameterValuesLOV?finder=findByWord;LegislativeDataGroupId=USLDG,FlowParameterId=XYZ

NOTE: These REST services are view-only. You can only select a payroll flow parameter value from a LOV, but you can’t create or edit them.

Steps to Enable

Review the REST service definition in the REST API guides, available from the Oracle Help Center > your apps service area of interest > REST API. If you're new to Oracle's REST services you may want to begin with the Quick Start section.

Make the feature accessible by assigning or updating privileges and/or job roles. Details are provided in the Role section below.

Role Information

You require this aggregate privilege to use the flowparametervaluesLOV REST API. Assign these privileges to your custom roles as appropriate.

Aggregate Privilege	Description
ORA_PAY_REST_SERVICE_ACCESS_PAYROLL_FLOW_PATTERN_LOVS	Contains all functional and data security privileges required to view a list of payroll flow instances, flow patterns, and flow parameters.

Global Payroll Redesigned User Experience

Increase user satisfaction with the redesigned pages that now have the same look and feel on desktop and mobile devices. These redesigned pages are both responsive and easy to use on any device, with a modern look and conversational language. Clutter-free pages, with clean lines and just the essential fields, can be personalized to suit.

Copy Payroll Info During a Legal Employer Change

You can now select the data that you want to copy from the source to the target assignment during a permanent legal employer change (global transfer) within the Legislative Data Group (LDG). The information that exists as of the global transfer date is copied but changes effective after the global transfer date aren’t. If the transfer results in a new payroll relationship, the information that exists at a payroll relationship level is also copied. You can now copy these payroll items:

• Payroll relationship and assignment attributes such as Payroll, Overtime Period and Time Card Required: This defaults to the value from the source. You will have the option to override the values if required.
• Personal Payment Methods: Payment methods are copied subject to the availability of a valid organizational payment method for the same payment type.
• Person Costing Overrides: By default costing overrides aren't copied. If you choose to copy, then the copy occurs across four levels at which the person costing setup is held.
• Recurring Element Entries: Copy for element entries are subject to eligibility. If you want to exclude certain elements from the copy, you will have to define an element (object) group with the usage type of Global transfer.

Questionnaire Page

Global Transfer Date

Payroll Details (Some Fields May Be Hidden by Default)

This feature is available only within the Local and Global Transfer flow.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

• You can hide or show any of the fields using HCM Experience Design Studio. For example, you can choose to hide some of the payroll fields from the line manager and make them visible to the professional user.
• Default values can be changed using auto defaulting rules.
• A worker may have payroll information such as element entries on multiple assignments within the source payroll relationship. In this case, the assignment that you choose to initiate the permanent global transfer will determine the data that is copied.

Key Resources

For setup information about HCM Responsive User Experience see the following white paper on My Oracle Support:

• HCM Responsive User Experience Setup Information (Document ID 2399671.1).

For more information on copy options refer to the:

• Global Human Resources What's New for 20B feature: Data Copy Options During a Legal Employer Change.

Flow Page Enhancements

The following enhancements is delivered to improve the usability of the payroll flows:

• You can access the new, redesigned Payroll Dashboard from My Clients Group > Payroll > Payroll Dashboard. Clicking on a flow name either under the View Activity Status or the View Process Status tab takes you to the redesigned Checklist page.
• The filter functionality displays the same sequence across all the payroll results pages; Results Summary, Process Results, Person Results.
• The Search box on the View Flows page clearly mentions that the search is on payroll flows.

Steps to Enable

NOTE: This step of enabling profile is for existing customers only. New customers starting with 19D or a later release do not need to setup these profiles, as the new responsive screens are delivered by default.

In order to enable you must enable the following profile option and have enabled the HCM_RESPONSIVE_PAGES_ENABLED profile option. If you have not enabled the HCM_RESPONSIVE_PAGES_ENABLED profile option, please see the HCM Responsive User Experience Setup Information white paper in My Oracle Support (Document ID 2399671.1).

Field	Value	Description
Profile Option	PAY_PAYROLL_ADMIN_RESPONSIVE_ENABLED	Enable the new, responsive payroll administration work area and pages.
Profile Option	PAY_PAYROLL_RESPONSIVE_ENABLED	Enable the new, responsive payroll pages.
Profile Option	PAY_RESPONSIVE_PERSON_SEARCH_CLASSIC_ENABLED	Enable the new, responsive person search on payroll pages.

To enable the profile option, navigate to the Setup and Maintenance work area:

1. Search for and click the Manage Administrator Profile Values task.
2. Search for and select the profile option.
3. Click to add a new Profile Value.
4. Select the Level as Site.
5. Enter a Y in the Profile Value field.
6. Click Save and Close.

Key Resources

For more information on enabling profile options, displayed and hidden fields and other setup information for the Redesigned User Experience, please refer to the following document on My Oracle Support:

• HCM Responsive User Experience Setup Information (Document ID 2399671.1)

Flow Pattern Connectors

Use the flow pattern connector feature to control how payroll results are consolidated for downstream processing to meet specific business requirements. The flow connector rules defined at the flow pattern level link multiple flows for downstream processing.

For example, in addition to the regular payroll runs, your company runs daily off-cycle runs to accommodate terminated workers and late payments. You may have a requirement to generate separate payments and reports for the regular on-cycle payroll results and the off-cycle payroll results even when the payment dates falls on the same day. Additionally, you may run a monthly costing flow that needs to include all payroll results from both your regular and off-cycle payrolls.

You can use consolidation groups to meet some of these requirements. However, the flow connector feature enables you to both segregate your regular and off-cycle flows for payment and reporting purposes and consolidate all payroll results for costing purposes.

Flow connector rules are defined on the flow pattern thereby ensuring these rules are automatically applied to all relevant flow instances each time you submit a flow.

NOTE: Use either connector rules or consolidation groups for consolidating flow results. You cannot use both these features simultaneously on a flow.

Use the Connector Name field to select flows you want to connect to consolidate payroll results for downstream processes and reports. By default this field displays the default flow pattern name, but you can override this value from a list of available flow pattern names.

The Flow Status controls how the flows are submitted. Only active and hidden flows are available for submission on the flow submission pages and through automated flow submissions.

Connector Status determines which results are included when the flow is submitted.

• If you chose Task Flow and if you have defined flow connector rules at the flow pattern level, the results include all the connected flows.
• If you chose Parameters Only, results that meet the task parameters are included. It doesn’t include results from any additional flows.

You can edit a flow pattern and connected flows only if you have the requisite functional security to perform the tasks. However, on submission you don’t need security access for the connected flow patterns.

Steps to Enable

NOTE: This step of enabling profile is for existing customers only. New customers starting with 19D or a later release do not need to setup these profiles, as the new responsive screens are delivered by default.

In order to enable you must enable the following profile option and have enabled the HCM_RESPONSIVE_PAGES_ENABLED profile option. If you have not enabled the HCM_RESPONSIVE_PAGES_ENABLED profile option, please see the HCM Responsive User Experience Setup Information white paper in My Oracle Support (Document ID 2399671.1).

Field	Value	Description
Profile Option	PAY_PAYROLL_ADMIN_RESPONSIVE_ENABLED	Enable the new, responsive payroll administration work area and pages.
Profile Option	PAY_PAYROLL_RESPONSIVE_ENABLED	Enable the new, responsive payroll pages.
Profile Option	PAY_RESPONSIVE_PERSON_SEARCH_CLASSIC_ENABLED	Enable the new, responsive person search on payroll pages.

To enable the profile option, navigate to the Setup and Maintenance work area:

1. Search for and click the Manage Administrator Profile Values task.
2. Search for and select the profile option.
3. Click to add a new Profile Value.
4. Select the Level as Site.
5. Enter a Y in the Profile Value field.
6. Click Save and Close.

Key Resources

For more information on enabling profile options, displayed and hidden fields and other setup information for the Redesigned User Experience, please refer to the following document on My Oracle Support:

• HCM Responsive User Experience Setup Information (Document ID 2399671.1)

Logging Details for a Flow

Before submitting a flow, you can now do the following:

• Check if logging is enabled for the flow you are submitting.
• Access the process configuration group of the flow and make amendments if required.

A process configuration group monitors various action parameters of the flow including logging levels. When a flow is submitted with logging enabled, the process creates files to capture the process parameters. These files are stored on the server. Subsequently, you can review these files and analyze the data for diagnostic purposes.

However, these files occupy space on the server and impacts performance.

When logging is enabled, a message appears on the UI to indicate that logging is enabled and displays the name of the process configuration group, as shown here.

Click on the process configuration group name to access the Process Configuration Group UI to view the details of the parameter and make changes if required.

Absence of this logging message on the UI means that logging is not enabled and you have not chosen a process configuration group for the flow. A process configuration group that has logging enabled is defaulted to the flow. Before submission of the flow, either disable logging to the defaulted group or select another process configuration group that has not enabled logging. .

Steps to Enable

NOTE: This step of enabling profile is for existing customers only. New customers starting with 19D or a later release do not need to setup these profiles, as the new responsive screens are delivered by default.

In order to enable you must enable the following profile option and have enabled the HCM_RESPONSIVE_PAGES_ENABLED profile option. If you have not enabled the HCM_RESPONSIVE_PAGES_ENABLED profile option, please see the HCM Responsive User Experience Setup Information white paper in My Oracle Support (Document ID 2399671.1).

Field	Value	Description
Profile Option	PAY_PAYROLL_ADMIN_RESPONSIVE_ENABLED	Enable the new, responsive payroll administration work area and pages.
Profile Option	PAY_PAYROLL_RESPONSIVE_ENABLED	Enable the new, responsive payroll pages.
Profile Option	PAY_RESPONSIVE_PERSON_SEARCH_CLASSIC_ENABLED	Enable the new, responsive person search on payroll pages.

To enable the profile option, navigate to the Setup and Maintenance work area:

1. Search for and click the Manage Administrator Profile Values task.
2. Search for and select the profile option.
3. Click to add a new Profile Value.
4. Select the Level as Site.
5. Enter a Y in the Profile Value field.
6. Click Save and Close.

Key Resources

For more information on enabling profile options, displayed and hidden fields and other setup information for the Redesigned User Experience, please refer to the following document on My Oracle Support:

• HCM Responsive User Experience Setup Information (Document ID 2399671.1)

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.

Direct Deposit Encoding Option

Generate the direct deposit interface file using the new encoding format of ANSI to correctly convert names containing accents. The Encoding Format parameter was added to the Generate Direct Deposit Payments process. You can select these encoding formats from the list of values:

• UTF-8 (default value)
• ANSI

This allows the customer to select the encoding format for the generated file as required by the bank.

The ANSI format is only required if employee names are created with accents. If not, you may continue to use the default UTF-8 format.

This screen capture illustrates the new parameter and its list of values:

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

The Encoding Format parameter is not applicable for the International Transfer payment type. It is only applicable to a Direct Deposit.

Key Resources

Refer to the document below on the Canada Information Center for additional information.

Canada Information Center

https://support.oracle.com/rs?type=doc&id=2102586.2

• Welcome tab > Product Documentation > White Papers > Implementation and Use

Hot Topics Email (To Receive Critical Statutory Legislative Product News)

To receive important Fusion Canada Legislative Product News, you must subscribe to the Hot Topics Email feature available in My Oracle Support. Refer to the document below on the Canada Information Center for additional information.

https://support.oracle.com/rs?type=doc&id=2102586.2

• CA – Welcome tab > Other Documents > How To Use My Oracle Support Hot Topics Email Subscription Feature

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.

Updated Logic for Calculating Reduced Taxable Income

You can now calculate the reduced taxable income by using the updated calculation logic. In a payroll run, the reduced taxable income for both the current run and year-to-date is calculated based on the year-to-date income for the payroll run. By comparing the year-to-date reduced tax payable amount with the year-to-date final tax withheld amount, you can determine the tax amount you have overpaid. You can recover the overpaid tax amount when filing your annual tax report for a refund in the next year.

In all cases, the reduced taxable income year-to-date (YTD) and run values are now calculated and returned based on the YTD income for the run, and the tax calculation for the run is based on the calculated YTD reduced taxable income value.

Let's look at an example of the reduced taxable income calculation. In this figure, the reduced taxable income YTD is 9000, so the reduced tax payable YTD comes to 270, which is less than the final tax withheld YTD amount of 375.

Reduced Taxable Income Calculation

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

Watch China Localization - Enhanced Payroll Support Readiness Training

Support Calculating Special Tax Reduction by Fixed Monthly Amounts

You can use the enhanced regular tax calculation logic to calculate special tax reduction for the current run and year-to-date by using fixed monthly special tax reduction amounts.

This functionality supports cases where an employee becomes eligible for the special tax reduction in the middle of a tax year. In addition, if there is any unused monthly amount in a given pay period, then that amount is carried forward and applied in the subsequent pay periods.

Let's look at an example of special tax reduction calculation by fixed monthly amounts. In this example, the employee is entitled to a special tax reduction from this pay period onwards, and there was no deduction in the previous pay period. Therefore, the reduced tax payable year-to-date is 300. Even though the employee is entitled to a monthly tax reduction of 500, only 300 is used in the current pay period, the remaining 200 is carried forward and used only in the subsequent pay period.

Special Tax Reduction Calculation by Fixed Amounts

Steps to Enable

Run Feature Upgrade

If you have used this functionality for any employee before the update is applied on your instances, you need to run an upgrade process immediately after the update is completed to get the Special Tax Reduction Amount Entitled ready for the next run. Note that you need to run this process only once.

1. In the Payroll Checklist or Payroll Calculation work area, select the Submit a Process or Report task.
2. On the Select a Flow Pattern page, from the Legislative Data Group list, select a China legislative data group.
3. Search for and select the Run Feature Upgrade flow pattern, and then click Next.
4. On the Enter Parameters page, in the Payroll Flow field, enter a flow name.
5. In the Feature field, search for and select Generate Special Tax Reduction Amount Entitles Run Result Values.
6. Click Submit.

Set the Individual Income Tax Component at the Personal Deduction Card Level

Do these steps for employees who are eligible for fixed special tax reduction monthly amounts:

1. In the Payroll Calculation work area, click Search Person.
2. In the Keywords field, enter the name of the person, and click Search.
3. From the Actions menu, select Calculation Cards.
4. On the Calculation Cards page, click Deduction Information.
5. In the Calculation Card Overview section, under Component Groups, click Taxes.
6. In the Calculation Components section, select Individual Income Tax.
7. Click the Calculation Component Details tab and do the following:

• From the Edit menu, select Update.
• For the Entitled to Special Tax Reduction or Exemption attribute, select Yes.

8. Click the Enterable Calculation Values on Calculation Cards tab and do the following:

• Click Create.
• From the Display Value list, select Fixed Special Tax Reduction Amount.
• In the Amount field, enter 500.
• Click OK.

9. Click Save.

Key Resources

Watch China Localization - Enhanced Payroll Support Readiness Training

New Year-To-Date Tax Exemption Amount Calculation Logic

You can calculate the year-to-date (YTD) tax exemption amount by multiplying the monthly tax exemption amount by the number of tax months in the tax year. The calculation logic also considers the hire date and termination date of the employee if this information is available within the tax year.

If the hire date falls within the tax year and is later than January 1, the hire date is considered in the number of tax months to calculate the tax exemption amount YTD. If the termination date falls within the tax year and is earlier than the payroll run date, the termination date is considered in the number of tax months to calculate the tax exemption amount YTD.

Scenario: Employee is Hired after January 1 of the Tax Year

Let's look at a scenario where an employee is hired in the end of February 2020, so no payroll is run for the February pay period. The payroll is run only in March 2020. In this case, the expected YTD tax exemption amount used in regular tax calculation = 5000 x 2 tax months = 10000.

YTD Tax Exemption Amount When an Employee Is Hired

Scenario: Employee is Terminated Before the Payroll Run Date

Let's look at a scenario where an employee's termination date is February 9, 2020 and the payroll run date is March 31, 2020, which is the third pay period for the employee. In this case, the expected YTD tax exemption amount used in regular tax calculation = 5000 x 2 tax months = 10000.

YTD Tax Exemption Amount When an Employee Is Terminated

Steps to Enable

Set Up the Individual Income Tax Component at the Tax Reporting Unit Level

Do these steps if you want to take advantage of the calculation logic effective from Jan 1, 2019:

1. In the Setup and Maintenance work area, do the following:

• Offering: Workforce Deployment
• Functional Area: Enterprise Structures
• Task: Legal Reporting Units for Human Capital Management

2. Expand the entry to display a list of related tasks.
3. Click the Select link for the Legal Reporting Unit Calculation Cards task.
4. On the Select Scope window, select appropriate values from the Legal Entity and Legal Reporting Unit lists.
5. Click Apply and Go to Task.
6. On the Tax Reporting Unit page, click Create.
7. On the Create Calculation Card dialog box, do the following:

• In the Effective As-of Date field, enter a date.
• From the Name list, select Statutory Deductions.

8. Click Continue.
9. In the Calculation Card Overview panel, select Taxes.
10. Click Create in the Calculation Components section.
11. Select Individual Income Tax from the Calculation Component field, and click OK.
12. Click the Enterable Calculation Values on Calculation Cards tab.
13. Click Create and complete these fields:

• From the Display Value list, select Regular Tax Tax Exemption Calculation Method.
• In the Value field, enter MULTIPLY.

14. Click Save.

Specify the Tax Reporting Unit Hire Date

Do these steps if there's a change in the employee's tax reporting unit (TRU):

1. In the Payroll Calculation work area, click Search Person.
2. In the Keywords field, enter the name of the person, and click Search.
3. From the Actions menu, select Calculation Cards.
4. On the Calculation Cards page, click Deduction Information.
5. In the Calculation Card Overview section, under Component Groups, click Taxes.
6. In the Calculation Components section, select Individual Income Tax.
7. Click the Calculation Component Details tab.
8. From the Edit menu, select Update.
9. In the Tax Reporting Unit Hire Date field, specify a date.
10. Click Save.

Key Resources

Watch China Localization - Enhanced Payroll Support Readiness Training

Enhanced Payroll Data Validation Report

The Payroll Data Validation Report is now enhanced to sort the validation messages related to social security data setup for a payroll statutory unit by territory, social security type, and contribution type in ascending order.

This figure shows the validation messages about missing data setup for social security management for a payroll statutory unit for Anhui and Beijing territories.

Payroll Data Validation Report

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

Watch China Localization - Enhanced Payroll Support Readiness Training

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.

Additional Data Capture for Teachers' Pension MCR Interface

You can record additional information specific to the Teachers’ Pension Monthly Contributions Reconciliation (MCR) report at the appropriate levels.

At the organization-level, you can enter these details on the Legal Entity page:

• For payroll statutory units, you must enter a three-digit Local Authority Number under Teachers Pensions Information.

• For legal employers, you can optionally enter a three-digit local authority number.
• You must also enter a four-digit establishment number.

Optionally, you can enter a seven-digit Teacher Reference Number at the person-level. This value is validated for format and the number of digits. .

Under Job Details, you can enter an alphanumeric value for Role Identifier for an assignment. This value is validated for format and must include a forward slash (/). 

NOTE: A person is included in the MCR report only if both the Teacher Reference Number and Role Identifier exist.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

Watch EMEA Localizations Readiness Training

Uptake of Published Schedule of Absences

The absences functionality has been enhanced to take into account the published schedule for statutory absences, if one exists for that employee. This is in addition to using the employee's relevant work schedules

The published statutory schedule enables changes to be made to the employee’s work schedule, which is a feature in global absence management. 

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

Watch EMEA Localizations Readiness Training

Add Tax Reporting Unit (TRU) Using Payroll Relationship REST API

Add Tax Reporting Unit to UK new hires using the payrollRelationships REST API. The TRU will trigger the automatic creation of UK tax records for the employees.You can use the update TRU custom action to update the tax reporting unit for a payroll assignment.

Steps to Enable

Review the REST service definition in the REST API guides, available from the Oracle Help Center > your apps service area of interest > REST API. If you're new to Oracle's REST services you may want to begin with the Quick Start section.

Make the feature accessible by assigning or updating privileges and/or job roles. Details are provided in the Role section below.

Role Information

You require these aggregate privileges to use the updateTRU custom action on payrollAssignments REST API. Assign these privileges to your custom roles as appropriate.

Aggregate Privilege	Description
ORA_PAY_REST_SERVICE_ACCESS_PAYROLL_RELATIONSHIPS	Contains all functional and data security privileges required to manage payroll relationships.
ORA_PAY_TRADING_COMMUNITY_DSPS	Contains data security policies that allow HCM roles to access Trading Community organizations, people and relationships.
ORA_PAY_REST_SERVICE_ACCESS_PAYROLL_LEGAL_ORGANIZATION_LOVS	Allows users to call the GET method associated with the Payroll Statutory Unit and Tax Reporting Unit list of values REST Services.

Reporting Enhancements - Payroll Validation Archive Report

There is a new validation available in the Payroll Validation Archive report that performs these checks:

• Validation of Gender Code for Male or Female
  • Sex Code values table is now user extensible and as such the values need to be validated. For tax calculation purpose, only Male or Female are valid values. If the user enters any other value in this field, the report highlights this with a message.
• Off-payroll worker selection
  • Checks for student loan or postgraduate loans and Statutory absence elements, and whether a Pensions Automatic Enrolment calculation card exists. 
  • If the employee is an Off-payroll worker, and any values for the balances for Statutory payments, student or postgraduate loans exist, the report highlights this with a message.
  • If Pensions Automatic Enrolment calculation card exists for employees deemed as off-payroll worker, the report highlights this with a message.

The issue on handling the length of lookup code for the field Sex is resolved to enter more than one character.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

Watch EMEA Localizations Readiness Training

Enhancement to HMRC Automated File Upload

You can run diagnostics against inbound files from HMRC that are in UCM. This enables you to resolve issues encountered on UCM file errors on inbound files received for P6, P9, NVREP, SL1/2 and PGL1/2.

Before You Start

• Run the process HMRC Data Retreival.
• Run the process Load HMRC XML File with the same parameters as the process HMRC Data Retrieval including Content ID. The Content ID is available from the log file from HMRC Data Retrieval.

You can access the diagnostic test HCM UK Inbound Flow Instance Diagnostic using the Diagnostics Dashboard and enter the required parameters.

There are two modes available; REPORT mode and COMPLETE mode.

REPORT Mode

It provides the summary status and helps identify problems and key information to fix and resolve issues.This mode generates a report with three sections in CSV format:

• Completed Flow Instance(s): Flow instances that have completed successfully.
• Incomplete Flow Instance(s): Flow instances that haven't yet completed successfully.
• Content IDs Not Processed: Any Content IDs that aren't yet completed, and a flow hasn't run to load it.

Here's a sample output:

COMPLETE Mode

This mode enables you to fix content IDs. Use the Complete mode only when encountering security setup issues during implementation and in conjunction with your support representative.

• This mode generates a report indicating that the process was a success.
• Sets the Payroll Action to Completed
• Subsequent HMRC Load Process will not process Content IDs

NOTE: You may need to reset the GOT numbers at this stage.

Here's a sample output:

NOTE: Use the Complete mode only when encountering security setup issues during implementation and in conjunction with your support representative.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

Watch EMEA Localizations Readiness Training

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.

Enhancement to Payroll Processing of Involuntary Deductions

We have made it easier for you to process involuntary deductions with the addition of new payroll run messages. Use them to assist with reconciliation of your involuntary deductions for individual employees.

These messages cover a wide range of scenarios:

• Time limit has been reached
• Total owed has been satisfied
• Involuntary deduction configured for a state that doesn’t support that secondary classification
• Multiple involuntary deductions configured for a state that doesn’t allow multiples for that secondary classification to process concurrently
• Involuntary deduction has been configured to process before a support involuntary order
• Bankruptcy deduction was partially deducted due to a higher priority involuntary deduction
• Multiple active support involuntary deductions configured for different states

They are available for review from the person’s View Statement of Earnings or View Process Results tasks.

Steps to Enable

Any element created in release 20B or later automatically supports these messages. To receive these messages for elements created prior to 20B, you must upgrade them by running the Element Upgrade process. Do this even if you have run this process for them previously.

Key Resources

Watch United States Localization Readiness Training

For further information, see Oracle Cloud Human Capital Management for the US: Element Upgrade Process (Document ID 2458385.1) on My Oracle Support.

Iowa Garnishment Enhancement for Yearly Withholding Limits

We have improved the accuracy of your involuntary deduction calculations for Iowa garnishments with the addition of a new override. Use the Iowa Garnishment Estimated Annual Gross Earnings calculation value definition to enforce Iowa's yearly maximum withholding limits. If you do not, the process continues to follow the federal CCPA limits.

To enforce this override for eligible employees:

1. Use the Calculation Cards task to open the person’s Involuntary Deductions card for editing.
2. In Calculation Component, select the Iowa Garnishment deduction's component.
3. Select Enterable Calculation Values on Calculation Cards.
4. Click Create, and search for and select Iowa Garnishment Estimated Annual Gross Earnings.
5. Enter the person’s estimated annual gross earnings, and click OK.

Iowa Garnishment Estimated Annual Gross Earnings

6. Click Save and Close.

Steps to Enable

Any element created in release 20B or later automatically has this override available. If you want to use this override for elements created prior to 20B, you must upgrade them by running the Element Upgrade process. Do this even if you have run this process for them previously.

Tips And Considerations

• This enhancement applies to Iowa garnishments only. Use the Garnishment secondary classification for Iowa non-consumer debts.
• The payroll process enforces the Iowa maximum withholding limits per year if you provide the estimated annual gross earnings. Otherwise, the calculations continue to follow the federal CCPA limits.
• The Iowa Garnishment Maximum Withholding Amount Per Year calculation value definition contains the annual limits based on the gross earnings ranges.

Key Resources

For further information, see Oracle Cloud Human Capital Management for the US: Element Upgrade Process (Document ID 2458385.1) on My Oracle Support.

Tax Withholding Card Audit Report

We have made it easier to prepare for payroll processing, monthly or quarterly audits, and other year-end reviews with the new audit report for your employee Tax Withholding cards. This report includes employee tax exemptions and withholding, Pennsylvania Residency Certificates, and other tax information. You can generate this report by running the Run Tax Withholding Card Audit Report process from the Checklist work area.

Run Tax Withholding Card Audit Report

The output file from this report is Tax Card eText Report.txt and is suitable for viewing in Microsoft Excel. It contains a consolidation of all Enhanced or Full Enhanced tax card data, including the value for each tax component.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

The report may return empty values for state, county, or city if the row represents a higher tax level. For example: State, County, and City would be blank for federal-level records. County and City would be blank for state-level records.

Key Resources

Watch United States Localization Readiness Training

For more information see the following document on My Oracle Support:

• Tax Card User Interface Migration white paper (Document ID 2592797.1)

Involuntary Deductions Audit Report

We have simplified the reconciliation of your involuntary deductions with a new involuntary deduction audit report. Use the Run Involuntary Deduction Audit Report process to generate a comma-delimited file suitable for viewing in a spreadsheet application, such as Microsoft Excel.

Run Involuntary Deduction Audit Report

This report provides 55 columns of data on your deductions, including information on:

• Employee name and payroll relationship number
• Payroll name, pay period end date, payroll flow name, and run type
• Card component name, subprocessing order, state, and reference code
• Various card component details
• Various calculation values entered on the Involuntary Deductions card component
• Various calculated results such as gross earnings, disposable income, protected pay, deduction calculated
• Various fee balances

Steps to Enable

The report requires some new balances and run results.  Any element you create in release 20B or later will have the necessary information to support this report.

But if you want to use this report for elements you defined prior to 20B, you must upgrade them by running the Element Upgrade process.  Do this even if you have run this process for them previously.  Otherwise, some data may not be reported correctly on the report.

Tips And Considerations

• When importing the text file into Microsoft Excel, be sure to set the format of the Reference Code and Remittance Identifier to text.  This prevents the report from dropping leading zeros.
• The Protected Pay Amount result always shows the period-to-date amount.
• This report includes calculation values that are entered on the card components.  It doesn't include the predefined legislative values, so some columns may be blank.

Key Resources

For further info, refer to the following:

• Oracle Cloud Human Capital Management for the United States: Element Upgrade Process (Document ID 2458385.1) on My Oracle Support
• Oracle Cloud Human Capital Management for the United States: Involuntary Deductions Processing Guide (Document ID 1597039.1) on My Oracle Support
• United States Localization Readiness Training

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.

Compensation

New Compensation Subject Area - Market Data Real Time

Improve your reporting on compensation related information with the new subject area to report on compensation survey data. The Compensation - Market Data Real Time subject area provides information on compensation surveys uploaded in the Compensation Work Area > Market Data > Import Survey.

This subject area can be used to analyze survey data. Key information includes survey metrics such as percentiles and deciles, survey jobs, survey job structures, survey locations, and other survey attributes.

You can now compare salary data with employee data by joining the Market Data subject area with the Salary subject area, or for example, the Stock subject area.

Steps to Enable

Leverage new subject area(s) by adding to existing reports or using in new reports. For details about creating and editing reports, see the Creating and Administering Analytics and Reports book (available from the Oracle Help Center > your apps service area of interest > Books > Administration).

Role Information

This subject area is secured by a new duty role named compensation market data transaction analysis duty:

• Compensation Market Data Transaction Analysis Duty

View Salary Range Differentials by Geo Zone in OTBI

You can now see salary range differentials by geo zone in the compensation application. You must run the "Generate Compensation Zone and Address Mapping" process, in order to see geo zone values display in OTBI.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

For more information about the zones see:

• The 20A What' New feature Compensaion Zone Introduction:
• The My Oracle Support white paper: Salary Range Differentials and Compensation Zones (Document ID 2605772.1):

IMPORTANT Actions and Considerations

REPLACED OR REMOVED FEATURES

From time to time, Oracle replaces existing Cloud service features with new features, or removes existing features. When a feature is replaced the older version may be removed immediately or at a future time. As a best practice, you should use the newer version of a replaced feature as soon as the newer version is available.

Product	Removed Feature	Target Removal	Replacement Feature	Replaced In	Additional Information

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ORACLE CURRENTLY PLANS TO DECOMMISSION THE HCM CLASSIC SIMPLIFIED USER INTERFACE IN UPDATE 20B

The new and redesigned HCM Responsive User Experience has been available and promoted as our standard since Update 18B. If you are still using the older HCM Classic Simplified User Interface, please begin transitioning to the HCM Responsive User Experience.

For information, video links and next steps, please see Document ID 2399671.1 - HCM Responsive User Experience Setup Information

Highlights of New User Interface:

We’ve taken the employee and manager self-service pages to the next level by redesigning them to look and behave the same on desktop and mobile devices. We’ve also changed the look and feel of the pages to provide a better experience for end users.

Pages and messages look more modern and use simpler, more conversational language so that you can more easily read and understand content across all devices. The pages are clutter-free and clean and display only those fields that are required to complete the task. You can personalize the pages and add more fields that are hidden by default. For most self-service tasks, you’re asked what you want to do, and the task is broken down into a series of steps based on your choice.

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KNOWN ISSUES / MONTHLY AND STATUTORY MAINTENANCE PACK

Oracle publishes a Known Issues document for every Update to make customers are aware of potential problems they could run into and the document provides workarounds if they are available.

Oracle also publishes Maintenance Pack and Statutory Maintenance Pack documentation of bugs that are fixed in the monthly or statutory patching.

To review these documents you must have access to My Oracle Support:

Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud Functional Known Issues and Maintenance Packs (Document ID 1554838.1)