Oracle Workforce Rewards Cloud R13 (updates 18A

Document History

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

Date	Update Version	Notes
21 DEC 2018	January Maintenance Pack for 18C	Delivered new features in January Maintenance Pack for 18C.
23 NOV 2018	December Maintenance Pack for 18C	Delivered new features in December Maintenance Pack for 18C.
21 DEC 2018	Update 18C	Revised update 18C.
21 DEC 2018	December Maintenance Pack for 18B	Delivered new features in December Maintenance Pack for 18B.
26 OCT 2018	November Quarterly Maintenance Pack for 18B	Delivered new features in November Quarterly Maintenance Pack for 18B.
27 AUG 2018	September Maintenance Pack for 18B	Delivered new features in September Maintenance Pack for 18B, which were also included in the November Quarterly Maintenance Pack.
27 JUL 2018	August Quarterly Maintenance Pack for 18B	Delivered new features in August Quarterly Maintenance Pack for 18B.
29 JUN 2018	July Maintenance Pack for 18B	Delivered new features in July Maintenance Pack for 18B, which were also included in the August Quarterly Maintenance Pack.
26 OCT 2018	June Maintenance Pack for 18B	Delivered new features in June Maintenance Pack for 18B, which were also included in the August Quarterly Maintenance Pack.
22 FEB 2019	Update 18B	Revised update 18B.
29 JUN 2018	June Maintenance Pack for 18A	Revised June Maintenance Pack for 18A. Features will also be included in the August Quarterly Maintenance Pack.
27 APR 2018	May Maintenance Pack for 18A	Delivered new features in May Maintenance Pack for 18A.
30 MAR 2018	April Maintenance Pack for 18A	Delivered new features in April Maintenance Pack for 18A.
26 JUL 2019	Update 18A	Revised update 18A.

January Maintenance Pack for 18C

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
21 DEC 2018		Created initial document.

Overview

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

Release Updates (18A, 18B and 18C)
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. If you are on Update 18A, you will only have features that are in 18A or the Monthlies for 18A, you will not have 18B features until you receive the 18B update. You can however read ahead on future release so you can make plans for when you will receive the next update.

If you are upgrading from Release 12, you should read all features up through the Release Update that you will receive in the upgrade, this can also be found in Cloud Portal.

Oracle HCM Cloud release documents are delivered in five functional groupings:

Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

HCM Cloud Common Features (This document pertains to all HCM applications. It is the base human resource information for all products and HCM Tools.)
Global Human Resources Cloud (Global Human Resources contains the base application in which other application use for common data such as workforce structures and person information. Regardless of what products you have implemented you may want to see the new features for Global Human Resources that could impact your products.)

NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for the base Talent and Compensation stand alone applications.

Optional Reading for HCM Products (Depending on what products are in your cloud service):

Talent Management Cloud (All Talent applications)
Workforce Rewards Cloud (Compensation, Benefits, Payroll and Global Payroll Interface)
Workforce Management Cloud (Absence Management and Time and Labor)

Additional Optional Reading:

Common Technologies and User Experience (This documents the common features across all Cloud applications and is not specific to HCM)

NOTE: All of these documents can be found on the Oracle Help Center at: https://cloud.oracle.com/saasreadiness/hcm under Human Capital Management Release Readiness.

Disclaimer

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

Payroll for the United Kingdom

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

New Payroll Validation Archive Report

Use the new Payroll Validation Archive Report which performs validations more efficiently thus completing the process quicker. This invokes the global payroll Enterprise Scheduler Service (ESS) job and follows a multithreaded approach for performance efficiency.

December Maintenance Pack for 18C

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
23 NOV 2018		Created initial document.

Overview

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

Release Updates (18A, 18B and 18C)
Optional Monthly Maintenance Packs to each update

If you are upgrading from Release 12, you should read all features up through the Release Update that you will receive in the upgrade, this can also be found in Cloud Portal.

Oracle HCM Cloud release documents are delivered in five functional groupings:

Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

HCM Cloud Common Features (This document pertains to all HCM applications. It is the base human resource information for all products and HCM Tools.)
Global Human Resources Cloud (Global Human Resources contains the base application in which other application use for common data such as workforce structures and person information. Regardless of what products you have implemented you may want to see the new features for Global Human Resources that could impact your products.)

NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for the base Talent and Compensation stand alone applications.

Optional Reading for HCM Products (Depending on what products are in your cloud service):

Talent Management Cloud (All Talent applications)
Workforce Rewards Cloud (Compensation, Benefits, Payroll and Global Payroll Interface)
Workforce Management Cloud (Absence Management and Time and Labor)

Additional Optional Reading:

Common Technologies and User Experience (This documents the common features across all Cloud applications and is not specific to HCM)

NOTE: All of these documents can be found on the Oracle Help Center at: https://cloud.oracle.com/saasreadiness/hcm under Human Capital Management Release Readiness.

Disclaimer

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 business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

MyCSP Pension Interface Monthly Files

Generate monthly files for MyCSP pension interface such as payment history and service history.

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.

Involuntary Deduction Calculation Bypass Override

Augment your involuntary deductions processing with the use of a new override to bypass all legislative calculations. You can now select new Statutory Rules Override Amount calculation value on the Involuntary Deductions card component. This value ignores all legislative calculations. Applicable processing fees are still deducted. This calculation value is available for all Involuntary Deductions secondary classifications.

Update 18C

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
21 DEC 2018	Global Payroll: HCM Data Loader Enhancements for Payroll Information	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 18C.
23 NOV 2018	Compensation: Person Spotlight - Compensation Details - Worker View	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 18C.
26 OCT 2018	Benefits: Enhanced Formula Functions	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 18C.
26 OCT 2018	Compensation: View Number of Notes on Worksheet	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 18C.
26 OCT 2018	Global Payroll: Retrospective Processing of Costing Setup Changes	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 18C.
26 OCT 2018	Global Payroll: Derive Bank Account Number from IBAN	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 18C.
26 OCT 2018	Payroll for the United States: California VPDI Support	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 18C.
26 OCT 2018	Payroll for the United States: Disposable Income Recalculation for Involuntary Deductions	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 18C.
26 OCT 2018	Payroll for the United States: New 180-Day Balance Dimensions	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 18C.
26 OCT 2018	Payroll for the United States: Proration Enhancement for Involuntary Deduction Support Orders	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 18C.
26 OCT 2018	Transactional Business Intelligence/ Payroll: New Dashboard - Payroll Flow Details	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 18C.
25 SEP 2018	Global Payroll: Tax Reporting Unit Support For Global Transfers	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 18C.
25 SEP 2018	Global Payroll:Enhanced Deduction Elements Processing	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 18C.
25 SEP 2018	Global Payroll: Generate HCM Rates Support for Payroll Customers	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 18C.
25 SEP 2018	Global Payroll: Removal of Unprocessed Payroll Element Batches Will Remove Associated Notifications	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 18C.
25 SEP 2018	Global Payroll: Retroactive Notification Report	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 18C.
25 SEP 2018	Global Payroll: Payslip Reprinting Report	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 18C.
25 SEP 2018	Global Payroll: Payslip Rate Enhancements	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 18C.
25 SEP 2018	Global Payroll: Expedited Payroll Processing for Absences	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 18C.
07 SEP 2018		Created initial document.

Overview

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

Release Updates (18A, 18B and 18C)
Optional Monthly Maintenance Packs to each update

If you are upgrading from Release 12, you should read all features up through the Release Update that you will receive in the upgrade, this can also be found in Cloud Portal.

Oracle HCM Cloud release documents are delivered in five functional groupings:

Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

HCM Cloud Common Features (This document pertains to all HCM applications. It is the base human resource information for all products and HCM Tools.)
Global Human Resources Cloud (Global Human Resources contains the base application in which other application use for common data such as workforce structures and person information. Regardless of what products you have implemented you may want to see the new features for Global Human Resources that could impact your products.)

NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for the base Talent and Compensation stand alone applications.

Optional Reading for HCM Products (Depending on what products are in your cloud service):

Talent Management Cloud (All Talent applications)
Workforce Rewards Cloud (Compensation, Benefits, Payroll and Global Payroll Interface)
Workforce Management Cloud (Absence Management and Time and Labor)

Additional Optional Reading:

Common Technologies and User Experience (This documents the common features across all Cloud applications and is not specific to HCM)

NOTE: All of these documents can be found on the Oracle Help Center at: https://cloud.oracle.com/saasreadiness/hcm under Human Capital Management Release Readiness.

Disclaimer

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.

Seniority Dates to Derive Eligibility

Use seniority dates to derive eligibility. For example, you can use seniority date, along with a benefits status and union or pay group to make employees eligible, or ineligible, for plans based on collective agreement or union. You can now configure for use in Benefits, a greater variety of seniority dates using the Global Human Resources functionality. Previously, there was only support for a couple of predefined length of service rules. To enable you to do this, we have enhanced the Manage Derived Factors page, Length of Service tab. We’ve added the value, Seniority Date, as a date to use in the Period Start Date Rule list, and a new field called Seniority Date. You can then use these derived factors in your eligibility profiles.

Manage Eligibility Profiles in Bulk Using Spreadsheet Loader

Upload participation eligibility profile names in bulk using a spreadsheet loader. This enables you to create and update benefit offerings for a higher number of employees, saving your benefits administrators time and effort. You can search using program or plan type name to create or update profile names, and even delete them using this functionality. You can also work in batches to manage participation eligibility profiles, or create blank participation profiles, if required.

More Information in Benefits Process Reports

Identify quickly and easily problems and take corrective action using the additional information added to the process reports. We’ve added new fields for Person Number, Life Event, Life Event Occurred Date, Job Name and Job Process Date, to processes such as Evaluate Life Event Participation. By adding these fields, you can now see more easily which person records resulted in errors and which life event caused the problem.

Enhanced Formula Functions

Take advantage of the new formula functions that enable you to set up and use benefits more flexibly. Use the formula function TL_AUTO_DES_DEP to auto enrol eligible dependants into a plan or option from the start. You can also use the formula function TL_DEP_CERT to configure dependant certification to be triggered once per dependant. Then, if the participant has provided a certificate for a dependant for a specific plan and option, and a subsequent life event occurs, the participant does not have to provide that same certification for the dependant again. You can also use the formula TL_ENR_CERT2 to control the levels of change that are allowed without certification.

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.

Round Salary Amount and Range

Round the salary amount and salary ranges with the enhanced salary basis configuration option.

Salary Rounding in Grade Step Progression

Round salary amounts and salary ranges calculated in grade step progression. The rounding rules defined on the salary basis determines how the values are converted from one frequency to another.

Include Multiple Grade Ladders in Grade Step Progression Processes

Simplify running the grade step progression batch processes. You can use the new grade ladder group attribute to optionally combine multiple grade ladders into a single process for both the Run Grade Step Progression and Synchronize Grade Step Rates processes.

Enhanced Search and Filter in Grade Step Progression Review Page

Process grade step progression and grade step rate synchronization results more effectively with the enhanced search and filter capabilities in the Review Proposed Progressions and Salary Updates page. In addition to searching on process ID and grade ladder, you can now search on grade ladder group as well as create your own saved searches. We've also enhanced the search page to allow you to filter by submission time and error count. When you drill down to the results of a single process, you can use query-by-example to quickly narrow down proposed progressions and salary updates for more focused review.

Manage Progression Grade Ladder Usability Improvements

Improve your review and troubleshooting of progression grade ladder setup issues. The Manage Progression Grade Ladders page now includes the date on which a particular rate or progression rule was last updated, making it easier to understand how all of the setup components are related. We've also introduced the ability to filter the list of grades in a display-only view, allowing you to quickly find the rates or rules for a particular grade within the ladder.

Improved Export of Worksheet Information

Export data from the Full Export in View Administration Reports more quickly using ADFDi. Improved performance when you export worksheet information using the Worksheet Export.

Switch Between Worksheet Tasks

Switch easily between worksheet page tasks using the new task switcher. Now you can switch between tasks without having to navigate back to the landing page.

Add Summary Columns to Individual Worker Display

Track overall allocations and budget consumption within Individual Worker Display with the ability to display Summary columns.

View Summary Information in the Downloaded Workbook

View summary total information in the downloaded workbook.

Update Assignment Name During the Compensation Cycle

Update the assignment name for a worker during the compensation cycle using new worksheet columns.

Promote Workers Using Job/Grade/Position Code

Promote workers through Workforce Compensation more easily by using the Job, Grade, or Position Code.

Reevaluate Managers with Limited Eligibility

Reevaluate managers with an eligibility status of "Limited" through the Refresh Workforce Compensation Data process. You can now update their eligibility without having to manually refresh these managers using the Administer Workers task

Streamlined Model Usage for Large Populations

Create and apply models for large populations more easily with a new streamlined model flow.

Prevent Start/Refresh/Backout Processes from Running at the Same Time

Prevent the Start, Refresh, and Back Out batch processes from running for the same plan and cycle at the same time.

Total Compensation Statement Printable Statement Enhancements

Augment your printable Total Compensation Statements with a new feature that uses a default stock price to value shares. The printable statement also now includes detail sections when the online statement has drill downs.

View Number of Notes on Worksheet

View the number of notes created for a worker on the worksheet. A new indicator on the notes icon shows the number of notes created.

Person Spotlight - Compensation Details - Worker View

Access your compensation statements from Spotlight, Personal Information, My Compensation.

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.

Enhanced Deduction Elements Processing

Control if employer charges and taxes are processed, when an employee does not have earnings. While you are creating the employer charges and tax elements, you can specify whether this type of element should be processed, not processed, or processed with zero amount when the employee has no earnings.

Rollback Error Employees and Automatically Create a Payroll Relationship Group

Rollback employees who are in error status to automatically populate a payroll relationship group for the errored employees. Use this payroll relationship group to reprocess the employees.

Retrospective Processing of Costing Setup Changes

Generate new costing results for retroactive costing changes that span a different date range. The Recalculate Payroll for Retroactive Changes process will now generate new costing results for retroactive changes that span a different date range in the payroll period to the original costing definition.

For example, assignment level costing details for an employee were defined and payroll results are costed and completed for the first quarter. Subsequently, the payroll department receives notification the employee’s costing details changed during the quarter and the employee's assignment level costing information has been updated. To recalculate recalculate payroll for the quarter, run the Recalculate Payroll for Retroactive Changes process (retropay) and the employee’s payroll costing details will be corrected based on the new costing information and dates.

This feature is supported for retroactive costing changes at payroll relationship, payroll assignment, payroll relationship element, payroll assignment element and element entry level and to be used for corrections in costing. Continue to use the existing Retroactive Costing process when there are no changes in the costing definition dates from the original costed results, such as Correcting the costing setup information or Deleting the costing setup record completely.

Ability to Update Specific Fields in Seeded Flow Patterns

Update specific fields within seeded flow patterns without copying the flow pattern and creating a new flow. For example, you can now alter the notification settings related to tasks.

Element Creation Through Scheduled Processes

Streamlines the creation of the elements and its components such as input values, fast formulas and formula results by submitting a scheduled process to eliminate page display errors.

Expedited Payroll Processing for Absences

Use the Expedited Payroll Processing feature to make immediate payments for absences that are submitted late on a time card.

This feature is only available for absence and time entries that are retroactively modified on a time card and marked for expedited processing.

Control Payroll Relationship Entries Using Element Duration Dates

Control the start and end date of earning and deductions using the element duration dates such as last standard processing date. These dates are now populated at payroll relationship level enabling you to automate the ending of deductions at this level. For example, end a pension element based on an employee's termination date.

Process Date Parameter Being Added to View Payroll Process Results Filter

Ability to search using the field Process Date within the View Payroll Process Results filter.

Third-Party Payment Enhancements

Use the new 'Separate worker payments by reference' checkbox on the Manage Third-Party Organization Payment Methods page to indicate separate payments are to be generated for employee payments to a given third party, based on reference. For example if an employee is making multiple payments to a given third party, these can be generated separately, each with the corresponding reference. The prepayment process will break down the employee payments by the reference number captured against the employee deduction on the calculation card, which is mandatory for all countries.

Removal of Unprocessed Payroll Element Batches Will Remove Associated Notifications

Remove unprocessed event notifications when a batch of element entries is rolled-back and the element entries are removed from employee records.

Payslip Rate Enhancements

Control the number of decimal places shown for earnings rates on the payslip. For example, you may want to show earnings rates up to four decimal places on the payslip instead of the default of two decimal places.

Display earnings whose rates are based on days or units other than time, in addition to rates based on hours. For example, your company pays private mileage at a rate of $0.50 per mile. If an employee is paid for 100 miles, the payslip can now display the mileage payment as 100 (units), paid at $0.50 (rate) per mile. Similarly, your company pays a meal allowance of $10 per day. If an employee is paid meal allowance payments for one week the payslip can now display the meal allowance payment as 5 (days), paid at $10.00 (rate).

Payslip Reprinting Report

Extract a report of payslips for one or more employees across one or more pay periods using the new Payslip Reprinting Report.

For example, use this report to print payslips for an employee who normally views their payslips online but are unable to do so due to a leave of absence or termination. Alternatively, to meet a request from your legal department you can produce a report of all payslips for an employee for the year.

Retroactive Notification Report

Report on unprocessed or deferred retroactive payroll event notifications using the retroactive notification report. Run the report before running the Recalculate Payroll for Retroactive Changes process to identify who will have retroactive results calculated, how far back retroactive results will be calculated, and details of the retroactive event. You could also use the report to detect payroll relationships that have been previously deferred so that you can choose to make some or all of them available for the next retroactive payroll process.

Choose Output Format During Payroll Report Submission

Use the Report Category field to generate the payroll report output in PDF or Excel format. For example, you may choose to generate the report output either using the delivered Excel template or in the default PDF output.

You can also define your own delivery option and include it in the report category. For example, you can define a delivery option to use a combination of both PDF and Excel outputs for a single submission of the report.

Account Number Masking in Payroll Reports

Control whether masked or clear bank account details are shown on the Payslip, Payment Register and Third-Party Payment Register reports. For example, if the payroll user wants to mail a copy of the Third-Party Payment Register to the payee, the report may be run with the bank account information masked so that it is not visible.

Generate HCM Rates Support for Payroll Customers

Calculate and store different types of rate values using the generate HCM Rates process. These stored rate values can be used for reporting purposes or in a payroll calculation.

For example, you can calculate an employee's daily salary rate and then use this stored rate in your payroll formula.

Tax Reporting Unit Support For Global Transfers

Define the Tax Reporting Unit (TRU) for an employee transferring to a new legal employer. If you enter a TRU when performing a payroll transfer, the TRU is assigned to the employee's new employment record and a corresponding tax record is created.

Its common practice for an employee's TRU to change when the move to an new legal employer. To enable this feature you must select the TRU as part of the global transfer flow.

Derive Bank Account Number from IBAN

When you create an external bank account, you must provide a bank account number. For countries where the IBAN (International Bank Account Number) is used according to SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) guidelines, you can now create an external bank account by entering only the IBAN instead of both the bank account number and the IBAN. When you save the external bank account, the bank account number will automatically be derived from the IBAN and populates the Account Number field.

HCM Data Loader Enhancements for Payroll Information

Load payroll information using HCM Data Loader. The number of payroll objects supported by HCM Data Loader has been expanded to include the following features:

Payroll Balance Definition
Payroll Definition and Time Periods
Payroll Element Definition
Organization Payment Method
Payroll Element Run Type Usage

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.

Time Card Elements

Create an element with a new category of “Time Card” for use in the Time and Labor application.

Vacation Liability

Calculate vacation pay as a percentage of “vacationable” earnings. You can define percentages by length of service for each vacation absence plan.

Tax Overrides Report

Report, or report and remove, federal and provincial tax overrides for employees using the new Tax Overrides Report.

US and ZZ Province Reporting

Process employees that require a province of employment in the US or in another country, designated as ZZ. Data capture, tax processing and year-end reporting are now supported for these employees.

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.

Gross-to-Net Report

Use the Global Gross-to-Net Report for China, for payroll run result verification and validation purposes.

Payroll Activity Report

Use the Global Payroll Activity Report for China for payroll run result verification and validation purposes.

Payroll for Kuwait

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

Employee Gratuity Calculation Card Behavior Update

Improve efficiency when you need to make corrections or reverse a termination, you no longer need to manually delete the existing gratuity calculation card. The same would apply if you rehire and subsequently terminate someone for whom a gratuity calculation card already exists.

Gratuity Calculation Legislative Update

Comply with legislative requirements as there is no longer the option to reduce a gratuity payment based on social insurance contributions. The gratuity calculation is now based on five working days per week and the calculation for the first five years of service is based on 15 days per year.

Suppress Zero Social Insurance Elements Run Results

Generate social insurance element run results only for those employees who are liable to pay social insurance contributions. When social insurance is not due to be calculated, either due to citizenship, or because the employee is not registered for social insurance, the run results will no longer be shown.

Data Validation Report Updates

Identify and fix employee data that may not be statutorily compliant, before running any dependent reports using the worker and payroll data validation reports.

The worker data validation report validates the contract type required for correct gratuity calculations, the home address required for reporting purposes, and the contact type against the marital status.

The payroll data validation report checks that a value for the attribute salary formula exists in the employer’s gratuity calculation card, as this is required for gratuity payments and some social allowance payments.

Multi-Language Support for Online Payslip

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

Diagnostic Report

Validate individual or all employees' calculation cards within the selected payroll statutory unit by running the newly delivered diagnostic HCM GCC Calculation Information Repository Diagnostics report. This will assist you or the support team to validate setup or configuration of employee calculation cards as necessary.

Payroll for Qatar

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

Employee Gratuity Calculation Card Behavior Update

Improve efficiency as when you need to make corrections or reverse a termination you no longer need to manually delete the existing gratuity calculation card. The same would apply if you rehire and subsequently terminate someone for whom a gratuity calculation card already exists.

Payment Methods

Generate payments as electronic fund transfer, cheque, cash or international transfer. Organization payment methods, and appropriate EFT and cheque templates have been delivered to enable payments to employees in the method they prefer.

Payroll Definitions Update

Create a biweekly payroll. Users who have selected either Human Resources or Payroll Interface as the extension through Manage Features by Country or Territory can create a payroll definition with the period type as biweekly.

Social Allowances: Element Templates

Create social allowance elements using the secondary classifications that have been added. Depending on the secondary classification selected, you can create elements based on a flat amount, a percentage of earnings or a rate definition. The appropriate elements, element input values, calculation value definitions, formula and balances will be created based on your responses.

Suppress Zero Social Insurance Elements Run Results

Prevent Duplicate Employee Social Insurance Calculation Cards

Assure data validity. The employee social insurance details calculation card can be generated automatically or created manually. Employee social insurance details calculation cards cannot be duplicated in Qatar. An error message is generated if an attempt is made to manually create a duplicate social insurance calculation card.

Gratuity Calculation Update

Augment gratuity calculations as they are now supported for all employer types defined on the employer social insurance calculation card, except the petroleum sector. Employees will be excluded from the gratuity calculation unless you select the gratuity to be paid attribute on the employer gratuity details calculation card, useful if you provide an employee gratuity or pension benefit program.

Wage Protection System

Generate a periodic report that contains details of the monies paid to individual employees. This report must be submitted to the Wage Protection Agent at the end of each period. For the file to be generated correctly, you must provide the Employer Establishment ID and Payer Establishment ID. It can be used as a replacement for the EFT file.

Multi-Language Support for Online Payslip

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

Diagnostic Report

IPE Consolidated Report

Generate a monthly report that contains details of the new hires and terminations in a calendar month for GCC citizens. This report must be submitted to the Social Insurance office.

Payroll for Saudi Arabia

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

Employee Gratuity Calculation Card Behavior Update

Prevent Duplicate Employee Social Insurance Calculation Cards

Assure data validity. The employee social insurance details calculation card can be generated automatically or created manually. Employee social insurance details calculation cards cannot be duplicated in Saudi Arabia. An error message is generated if an attempt is made to manually create a duplicate social insurance calculation card.

Gratuity Calculation Card Update

Comply with legislative requirements. The date mode for the Saudi Arabia gratuity calculation card has been set to date earned. This means that the payroll process can select the gratuity element in a payroll period that is different from the actual termination date payroll period.

Gratuity Calculation Update: Article 77

Comply with legislative requirements. When processing a termination, you can manually add the component for Saudi Employee Article 77 Details to enter any compensation or reimbursement details.

Gratuity Payment Element: Retroactive Element

Simplify the process for gratuity payments. A retroactive element has been provided for the gratuity payment element, to allow retroactive changes to gratuity payments, or to process an agreed late payment of gratuity. For example, an employee with April 30th as the termination date has an agreement that the final payment will be made later, say May 4th. In order to pay gratuity at the agreed time, the retro process will verify that the gratuity payment element has not been processed, and then generate the gratuity payment retro element with the appropriate details for the correct payment.

Social Insurance Elements: Retroactive Elements

Comply with legislative requirements. Enable retroactive calculations on employee and employer social insurance for GCC nationals working in Saudi Arabia, by providing appropriate elements for all GCC social insurance retroactive changes.

Diagnostic Report

Payroll for the United Arab Emirates

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

Employee Gratuity Calculation Card Behavior Update

Improve efficiency as when you need to make corrections or reverse a termination, you no longer need to manually delete the existing gratuity calculation card. The same would apply if you rehire and subsequently terminate someone for whom a gratuity calculation card already exists.

Suppress Zero Social Insurance Elements Run Results

Multi-Language Support for Online Payslip

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

Data Validation Report Updates

Identify and fix employee data that may not be statutorily compliant, before running any dependent reports using the worker and payroll data validation reports.

The worker data validation report validates the contract type required for correct gratuity calculations, checks for missing Emirates ID National Identifier, the family book national identifier (based on UAE citizenship), and the home address which is required for reporting purposes. It also validates the contact type against the marital status.

The payroll data validation report checks for missing family book national identifier (based on UAE citizenship), and the home address which is required for reporting purposes.

Diagnostic Report

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.

New Starter Declaration for Employees

Get new starter declaration submissions from new employees through their home page. They can update their employment status and whether they require a new student loan. This option is available on all media including a mobile devices.

Pensions Automatic Enrolment Multiple Updates Process

Perform multiple updates using the new Pensions Automatic Enrolment Assessment Multiple Update process. This invokes the global payroll Enterprise Scheduler Service (ESS) job and follows a multithreaded approach for performance efficiency.

Enhanced Processes for Start of Year and Tax Code Uplift

Take advantage of the enhanced Start of Year process and Tax Code Uplift process that now exclude future dated records for a more efficient process performance. This is beneficial for a large population. An errors and warnings report is generated as part of the output in the CSV file format.

NI Category Update Process Enhancements

Process the enhanced NI Category Update with efficiency in performance for a large data volume. The process runs the archive update task and generates an errors and warnings report.

Pensions Automatic Enrolment - Re-Enrolment Options

Indicate whether you want re-enrol employees who have left the organization within the last 12 months. You can exercise this option on the Pension Automatic Enrolment at payroll statutory unit (PSU) and tax reporting unit (TRU) levels.

Encryption of HMRC Files

Support data encryption for HMRC incoming files and HMRC outgoing files. These files are encrypted before they are stored in UCM. The HMRC Data Retrieval Process and the Load HMRC XML File Process are updated to handle the encrypted files. Other third-party files are always set as unencrypted.

View Tax Year End Form for Employees

View and access tax year-end forms available for employees from their Home page. The following documents are available:

P60 - End-of-Year Statement
P11D - Expenses and Benefits Statement

Payroll for the United States

Deferred Compensation 401 (k) Enhancements

Augment your deferred compensation deduction calculations through the optional enforcement of 401 (k) contribution limits. You can now selectively enforce the annual compensation limit check and also override the IRS annual compensation limit.

Remittance Identifier for Third-Party Payments

Improve your third-party payment processing through the inclusion of the remittance identifier with your third-party payments. If you specify a remittance identifier on the deduction component of the person’s Involuntary Deductions card, the periodic archive process includes it with the third-party payments. If you do not, it continues to use the reference code.

Retiree Payments Processing Support

Process periodic or lump sum payments for eligible retirees during payroll processing. The payroll process now calculates the Federal Income Tax and State Income Tax for these payments using the regular withholding tables. Use the US Third-Party Periodic Tax Filing interface to send your retiree tax information to your third-party vendors.

Iterative Pretax Deduction Calculation Enhancement

Enforce the proper withholding of required statutory deductions through iterative payroll calculation of pretax deductions. In cases where a pretax deduction is equal to or higher than the person’s gross pay, the payroll process now withholds them iteratively. This ensures that it properly withholds statutory deductions, such as taxes and involuntary deductions.

US Territory Year-End Form Processing

Generate Puerto Rican and Guam employee year-end forms with your end-of-year processing. The W-2 Employee Report and W-2 Register processes now include support for the W-2PR and W-2GU forms.

Net Pay Threshold Enhancement

Simplify your payment distribution processing, through a new net pay threshold. To avoid cutting low-value employee checks, you can now set a threshold at which anything below it is automatically paid towards an employee tax obligation, such as FIT, Medicare, or Social Security. Values above the threshold are paid to the employee normally. You set this threshold at the legislative data group, so it applies to all of your organizations.

New 180-Day Balance Dimensions

Three balance dimensions are now available for capturing employee payroll information over a period of 180 days. Use these dimensions to comply with certain statutory regulations, such as the Oregon Family Leave Act.

California VPDI Support

Support California VPDI plans in your payroll processing. You can now provide a voluntary disability plan to your California employees if you are not already using the state disability plan.

Proration Enhancement for Involuntary Deduction Support Orders

Improve the accuracy of your involuntary deduction support order processing through the addition of enhanced proration calculations. A suite of new calculation values is available for cases where an employee has multiple orders requiring proration. Through entry into these calculation values on the Involuntary Deductions card, you can enforce the applicable state's proration rules. By leaving them blank, the proration calculations continue to use the total withholding amount from the orders.

Disposable Income Recalculation for Involuntary Deductions

Improve the accuracy of your involuntary deduction processing with the recalculation of disposable income. Prior to this release, disposable income was calculated once for the first order processed (with the exception of Regional Tax Levy, which always recalculated disposable income). All new Involuntary Deduction elements automatically enable the recalculation of disposable income.

HR Optimization

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.

Benefits

New Metric - Amount Due

Enhance your reporting related to worker benefits coverage payments with the new measure named 'Amount Due'. This metric includes the sum of charges and any arrears that are due. This metric is added to the subject area Benefits - Billing Real Time under the folder Facts - Benefits Billing Payments.

Compensation

New Compensation Dashboard

Improve your reporting on the compensation business processes in OTBI with this new dashboard. Provided to aid compensation managers and analysts in reviewing details related to compensation plans, budgets, allocations, worksheet budget and distribution amounts; worker salary overview, metrics and comparatios; and stock overview, stock allocations. This dashboard is called the Compensation Business Process dashboard and is available for customers with no additional changes in settings or roles.

Compensation - Currency Conversion Exchange Rates Enhancements

Improve your reporting on user preferred currency conversions with the modification to the computing logic. The changes reflect the plan and cycle exchange rate values. The changes are applicable to the folder 'Amounts in User Preferred Currency' under Workforce Compensation Real Time and Workforce Compensation Budget Real Time subject areas.

Manager Flag in Compensation Manager List and Worksheet Manager List Dimensions

Enhance your reporting on compensation manager and worksheet manager list dimensions with a new flag added to indicate whether the worker in the list is a manager or not. For example if they have direct reports then they are a manager. A new attribute Manager Flag (with values of Yes/No) is introduced in both the dimensions.

Budget Details Dimension - Workforce Compensation Budgets Real Time

Enhance your reporting on workforce budget details with the new dimensions that were added to include all the attributes required to report on the budget details. A new set of dimensions were added to the Workforce Compensation Budgets Real Time. These new dimensions allow users to report on attributes like Budget Access Level, Budget Population Code, Budgeting Style, and Override Settings. These dimensions are added under Compensation Manager and Compensation Worksheet Manager dimensions as subfolders.

Compensation Budgets Real Time - New Fact Folder

Fine tune your reporting on workforce budgets with a new fact folder and set of metrics added to address an issue that occurred while using the compensation manager and compensation manager list dimensions with the budget metrics. Previously budget metrics displayed values without the top manager values included. In order to address this, the existing budget fact folder was enhanced. With this enhancement any report that should include the budget related to the top manager, must use the metrics in the new subfolder named Workforce Budget for Top Manager. For all other managers other than the top manager, the existing metrics in the workforce budget fact folder can still be used.

Payroll

New Dashboard - Payroll Flow Details

Augment your reporting on payroll with the new dashboard Payroll Flow Details. This dashboard renders the data related to the specific occurrences of processes that includes payroll flows. The data includes the details, such as process name, submission date, submitted by etc.

Payroll Subject Area Enhancement - Timecard Required and Overtime Period

Enhance your reporting by including Timecard Required and Overtime Period attributes of an employee assignment and Overtime Period attribute of Payroll Relationship along with other attributes as below.

Payroll Relationship - Payroll Assignment - Time Card Required
Payroll Relationship - Payroll Assignment - Overtime Period
Payroll Relationship - Payroll Assignment - First Standard Earning Date
Payroll Relationship - Payroll Assignment - Last Standard Earning Date
Payroll Relationship - Payroll Assignment - Last Standard Process Date
Payroll Relationship - Final Close Date
Payroll Relationship - Overtime Period
Payroll Relationship - First Standard Earning Date
Payroll Relationship - Last Standard Earning Date
Payroll Relationship - Last Standard Process Date
Payroll Relationship - Final Close Date

These attributes are included in the following subject areas:

Payroll - Element Entries Real Time
Payroll -Calculation Cards Real Time
Payroll - Balances Real Time
Payroll - Run Results Real Time
Payroll - Element Entries History Real Time
Payroll - Payments Costing Real Time
Payroll - Payments Distribution Real Time
Payroll - Payroll Run Costing Real Time
Payroll - Personal Payment Details Real Time
Payroll Rate Calculation Results Real Time
Payroll Retroactive Pay Real Time
Payroll Interface Inbound Records Real Time

Calculation Cards Real Time Enhancements

Enhance your reporting on calculation cards real time subject area to report on absence and time cards calculation cards information such as absence or time component name, start date, end date, and value. Calculation cards real time subject area has been enhanced with the addition of new attributes. The following columns have been added to the subject area. These attributes display the meaning or description when a code is stored for the respective column in the database.

Enterable Calculation Value - Displayed Override Value
Enterable Calculation Value - Displayed Default Value
Enterable Calculation Value - Displayed Calculated Value

Streamline your reporting on this subject area with the data being displayed based on the corresponding transaction date of the function, such as the job of a worker is shown as 'Calculation Component Effective End Date', instead of the job as on current date.

December Maintenance Pack for 18B

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
21 DEC 2018		Created initial document.

Overview

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

Release Updates (18A, 18B and 18C)
Optional Monthly Maintenance Packs to each update

If you are upgrading from Release 12, you should read all features up through the Release Update that you will receive in the upgrade, this can also be found in Cloud Portal.

Oracle HCM Cloud release documents are delivered in five functional groupings:

Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

HCM Cloud Common Features (This document pertains to all HCM applications. It is the base human resource information for all products and HCM Tools.)
Global Human Resources Cloud (Global Human Resources contains the base application in which other application use for common data such as workforce structures and person information. Regardless of what products you have implemented you may want to see the new features for Global Human Resources that could impact your products.)

NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for the base Talent and Compensation stand alone applications.

Optional Reading for HCM Products (Depending on what products are in your cloud service):

Talent Management Cloud (All Talent applications)
Workforce Rewards Cloud (Compensation, Benefits, Payroll and Global Payroll Interface)
Workforce Management Cloud (Absence Management and Time and Labor)

Additional Optional Reading:

Common Technologies and User Experience (This documents the common features across all Cloud applications and is not specific to HCM)

NOTE: All of these documents can be found on the Oracle Help Center at: https://cloud.oracle.com/saasreadiness/hcm under Human Capital Management Release Readiness.

Disclaimer

Payroll

Payroll for the United Kingdom

MyCSP Pension Interface Monthly Files

Generate monthly files for MyCSP pension interface such as payment history and service history.

November Quarterly Maintenance Pack for 18B

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 OCT 2018		Created initial document.

Overview

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

Release Updates (18A, 18B and 18C)
Optional Monthly Maintenance Packs
Quarterly Mandatory Maintenance Packs (delivered in February, May, August and November). All features that show in the Monthly Maintenance Packs will be included in the next Quarterly Mandatory Maintenance Pack, so no need to request the monthly maintenance packs.

It is important for you to know what Release Update you environment is on. You can find this in your Cloud Portal. If you are on Update 18A, you will only have features that are in 18A or the Monthly and Quarterly updates for 18A, you will not have 18B features until you receive the 18B update. You can however read ahead on future release so you can make plans for when you will receive the next update.

If you are upgrading from Release 12, you should read all features up through the Release Update that you will receive in the upgrade. This can also be found in Cloud Portal.

Oracle HCM Cloud release documents are delivered in five functional groupings:

Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

HCM Cloud Common Features (This document pertains to all HCM applications. It is the base human resource information for all products and HCM Tools.)
Global Human Resources Cloud (Global Human Resources contains the base application in which other application use for common data such as workforce structures and person information. Regardless of what products you have implemented you may want to see the new features for Global Human Resources that could impact your products.)

NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for the base Talent and Compensation stand alone applications.

Optional Reading for HCM Products (Depending on what products are in your cloud service):

Talent Management Cloud (All Talent applications)
Workforce Rewards Cloud (Compensation, Benefits, Payroll and Global Payroll Interface)
Workforce Management Cloud (Absence Management and Time and Labor)

Additional Optional Reading:

Common Technologies and User Experience (This documents the common features across all Cloud applications and is not specific to HCM)

NOTE: All of these documents can be found on the Oracle Help Center at: https://cloud.oracle.com/saasreadiness/hcm under Human Capital Management Release Readiness.

Disclaimer

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.

Employer Payment Summary Supports CIS Suffered

Enter the amount of Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) deductions suffered by your organization when you run the Employer Payment Summary process that reduce your liability to HMRC.

Employer Pay Bill Included in Reconciliation Report

Reconcile your payroll with the enhanced Year-to-Date Reconciliation Report, which now includes the Employer Pay Bill value.

Civil Service Pension Scheme Update

Support employer contributions based on assumed pay, the calculation of earnings limits based on an employee’s full-time equivalent. In addition, now Legal & General is added as a partnership scheme.

MyCSP Pension Interface Monthly Files

Generate monthly files for the MyCSP pension interface such as basic, address, part-time history, short-time hours (single), salary history, allowance history, bonus history, WPS contribution rate history, and scheme contribution rate history.

MyCSP Pension Interface Cutover Files Update

Use the updated salary history cutover file to report the grade name, and report the reduced actual pay when an employee is on assumed pay, only. In addition, the start date on the salary history, allowance history and part-time history cutover files are modified.

MyCSP Errors and Warnings Report

Use the new MyCSP Errors and Warnings task in the Generate MyCSP Interface process, to view the errors and warnings report.

P45 Generation Using HDL Upload

Leverage the HCM Data Loader (HDL) functionality to upload employee termination data and trigger the generation of P45 for these employees automatically.

September Maintenance Pack for 18B

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
27 AUG 2018		Created initial document.

Overview

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

Release Updates (18A, 18B and 18C)
Optional Monthly Maintenance Packs
Quarterly Mandatory Maintenance Packs (delivered in February, May, August and November). All features that show in the Monthly Maintenance Packs will be included in the next Quarterly Mandatory Maintenance Pack, so no need to request the monthly maintenance packs.

If you are upgrading from Release 12, you should read all features up through the Release Update that you will receive in the upgrade. This can also be found in Cloud Portal.

Oracle HCM Cloud release documents are delivered in five functional groupings:

Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

HCM Cloud Common Features (This document pertains to all HCM applications. It is the base human resource information for all products and HCM Tools.)
Global Human Resources Cloud (Global Human Resources contains the base application in which other application use for common data such as workforce structures and person information. Regardless of what products you have implemented you may want to see the new features for Global Human Resources that could impact your products.)

NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for the base Talent and Compensation stand alone applications.

Optional Reading for HCM Products (Depending on what products are in your cloud service):

Talent Management Cloud (All Talent applications)
Workforce Rewards Cloud (Compensation, Benefits, Payroll and Global Payroll Interface)
Workforce Management Cloud (Absence Management and Time and Labor)

Additional Optional Reading:

Common Technologies and User Experience (This documents the common features across all Cloud applications and is not specific to HCM)

NOTE: All of these documents can be found on the Oracle Help Center at: https://cloud.oracle.com/saasreadiness/hcm under Human Capital Management Release Readiness.

Disclaimer

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.

Pensions Automatic Enrolment - Re-Enrolment Options

Indicate whether you want re-enrol employees who have left the organization within the last 12 months. You can exercise this option on the Pensions Automatic Enrolment calculation card at the payroll statutory unit (PSU) and tax reporting unit (TRU) levels.

Pensions Automatic Enrolment Multiple Updates Process

August Quarterly Maintenance Pack for 18B

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
27 JUL 2018		Created initial document.

Overview

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

Release Updates (18A, 18B and 18C)
Optional Monthly Maintenance Packs
Quarterly Mandatory Maintenance Packs (delivered in February, May, August and November). All features that show in the Monthly Maintenance Packs will be included in the next Quarterly Mandatory Maintenance Pack, so no need to request the monthly maintenance packs.

If you are upgrading from Release 12, you should read all features up through the Release Update that you will receive in the upgrade. This can also be found in Cloud Portal.

Oracle HCM Cloud release documents are delivered in five functional groupings:

Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

HCM Cloud Common Features (This document pertains to all HCM applications. It is the base human resource information for all products and HCM Tools.)
Global Human Resources Cloud (Global Human Resources contains the base application in which other application use for common data such as workforce structures and person information. Regardless of what products you have implemented you may want to see the new features for Global Human Resources that could impact your products.)

NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for the base Talent and Compensation stand alone applications.

Optional Reading for HCM Products (Depending on what products are in your cloud service):

Talent Management Cloud (All Talent applications)
Workforce Rewards Cloud (Compensation, Benefits, Payroll and Global Payroll Interface)
Workforce Management Cloud (Absence Management and Time and Labor)

Additional Optional Reading:

Common Technologies and User Experience (This documents the common features across all Cloud applications and is not specific to HCM)

NOTE: All of these documents can be found on the Oracle Help Center at: https://cloud.oracle.com/saasreadiness/hcm under Human Capital Management Release Readiness.

Disclaimer

Payroll

Payroll for the United Kingdom

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

Additional Grade and Element Data Capture for MYCSP Pension Interface

Record additional information specific to the MyCSP pension interface for grades and elements.

MYCSP Pension Interface Code Files

Generate the code files for MyCSP pension interface.

MYCSP Pension Interface Cutover Files

Generate the cutover files for MyCSP pension interface.

July Maintenance Pack for 18B

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 JUN 2018		Created initial document.

Overview

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

Release Updates (18A, 18B and 18C)
Optional Monthly Maintenance Packs
Quarterly Mandatory Maintenance Packs (delivered in February, May, August and November). All features that show in the Monthly Maintenance Packs will be included in the next Quarterly Mandatory Maintenance Pack, so no need to request the monthly maintenance packs.

If you are upgrading from Release 12, you should read all features up through the Release Update that you will receive in the upgrade. This can also be found in Cloud Portal.

Oracle HCM Cloud release documents are delivered in five functional groupings:

Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

HCM Cloud Common Features (This document pertains to all HCM applications. It is the base human resource information for all products and HCM Tools.)
Global Human Resources Cloud (Global Human Resources contains the base application in which other application use for common data such as workforce structures and person information. Regardless of what products you have implemented you may want to see the new features for Global Human Resources that could impact your products.)

NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for the base Talent and Compensation stand alone applications.

Optional Reading for HCM Products (Depending on what products are in your cloud service):

Talent Management Cloud (All Talent applications)
Workforce Rewards Cloud (Compensation, Benefits, Payroll and Global Payroll Interface)
Workforce Management Cloud (Absence Management and Time and Labor)

Additional Optional Reading:

Common Technologies and User Experience (This documents the common features across all Cloud applications and is not specific to HCM)

NOTE: All of these documents can be found on the Oracle Help Center at: https://cloud.oracle.com/saasreadiness/hcm under Human Capital Management Release Readiness.

Disclaimer

Payroll

Payroll for the United Kingdom

Payroll for Oracle Fusion 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.

Civil Service Pension Template Enhancements

Generate pension elements and associated objects specific to civil service pension schemes.

Pension Template for Additional Pension Contributions

Generate pension elements and associated objects specifically for additional pension contributions using new secondary classifications under either Pre-Statutory Deduction or Voluntary Deduction primary classifications.

Additional Data Capture for MyCSP Pension Interface

Record additional information specific to the MyCSP pension interface at the appropriate level, for example, legal employer, grade, and person information.

Payroll for the United States

Payroll for Oracle Fusion 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.

Electronic Income Withholding Order Reference Code Enhancement

Improve the generation of the Involuntary Deductions card component Reference Code through the addition of an electronic income withholding order (e-IWO) sequence number suffix. This further qualifies the Reference Code to prevent duplicate values. In cases where you receive an e-IWO order with the same case identifier, remittance identifier, and issuing state as an existing order but with a different order identifier, then the reference code is appended with a sequence number. In these scenarios, the Reference Code would consist of a concatenation of: Case Identifier, State Abbreviation, Remittance Identifier, and sequence number.

June Maintenance Pack for 18B

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 OCT 2018		Created initial document.

Overview

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

Release Updates (18A, 18B and 18C)
Optional Monthly Maintenance Packs
Quarterly Mandatory Maintenance Packs (delivered in February, May, August and November). All features that show in the Monthly Maintenance Packs will be included in the next Quarterly Mandatory Maintenance Pack, so no need to request the monthly maintenance packs.

If you are upgrading from Release 12, you should read all features up through the Release Update that you will receive in the upgrade. This can also be found in Cloud Portal.

Oracle HCM Cloud release documents are delivered in five functional groupings:

Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

HCM Cloud Common Features (This document pertains to all HCM applications. It is the base human resource information for all products and HCM Tools.)
Global Human Resources Cloud (Global Human Resources contains the base application in which other application use for common data such as workforce structures and person information. Regardless of what products you have implemented you may want to see the new features for Global Human Resources that could impact your products.)

NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for the base Talent and Compensation stand alone applications.

Optional Reading for HCM Products (Depending on what products are in your cloud service):

Talent Management Cloud (All Talent applications)
Workforce Rewards Cloud (Compensation, Benefits, Payroll and Global Payroll Interface)
Workforce Management Cloud (Absence Management and Time and Labor)

Additional Optional Reading:

Common Technologies and User Experience (This documents the common features across all Cloud applications and is not specific to HCM)

NOTE: All of these documents can be found on the Oracle Help Center at: https://cloud.oracle.com/saasreadiness/hcm under Human Capital Management Release Readiness.

Disclaimer

Payroll

Payroll for the United States

Tax Withholding Enhancements for the Professional User

Facilitate employee tax withholdings through an enhanced Tax Withholding card user interface through the Manage Calculation Cards task. This includes an enhanced organization of the association and withholding details, simplified withholding definition and review, viewable online employee federal and state withholding forms, and the ability to review changes in a timeline.

Using HSDL to Load New Tax Cards Records

Accelerate the creation and update of employee Tax Withholding card information with the HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader (HSDL).

Update 18B

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
22 FEB 2019	Global Payroll: Costing Results Report Using Extracts	Updated document. Revised feature information.
23 NOV 2018	Compensation Management: Support Separate Approval Rules for Personal Contribution and Individual Compensation	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 18B.
26 OCT 2018	Benefits: Enhanced Formula Functions	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 18B.
25 SEP 2018	Transactional Business Intelligence/ Payroll: Bank Details - Building Society Roll Number	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 18B.
27 AUG 2018	Compensation Management: Annual Amount Calculation Change in Grade Step Progression	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 18B.
27 AUG 2018	Compensation Management: Total Compensation Salary as a Source	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 18B.
29 JUN 2018	Global Payroll: Multi-Language Support in Payslips	Updated document. Revised feature information.
27 APR 2018	Global Payroll: Flow Task Submission from Within a Checklist	Updated document. Revised feature information.
06 APR 2018		Created initial document.

Overview

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

Release Updates (18A, 18B and 18C)
Optional Monthly Maintenance Packs
Quarterly Mandatory Maintenance Packs (delivered in February, May, August and November). All features that show in the Monthly Maintenance Packs will be included in the next Quarterly Mandatory Maintenance Pack, so no need to request the monthly maintenance packs.

If you are upgrading from Release 12, you should read all features up through the Release Update that you will receive in the upgrade. This can also be found in Cloud Portal.

Oracle HCM Cloud release documents are delivered in five functional groupings:

Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

HCM Cloud Common Features (This document pertains to all HCM applications. It is the base human resource information for all products and HCM Tools.)
Global Human Resources Cloud (Global Human Resources contains the base application in which other application use for common data such as workforce structures and person information. Regardless of what products you have implemented you may want to see the new features for Global Human Resources that could impact your products.)

NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for the base Talent and Compensation stand alone applications.

Optional Reading for HCM Products (Depending on what products are in your cloud service):

Talent Management Cloud (All Talent applications)
Workforce Rewards Cloud (Compensation, Benefits, Payroll and Global Payroll Interface)
Workforce Management Cloud (Absence Management and Time and Labor)

Additional Optional Reading:

Common Technologies and User Experience (This documents the common features across all Cloud applications and is not specific to HCM)

NOTE: All of these documents can be found on the Oracle Help Center at: https://cloud.oracle.com/saasreadiness/hcm under Human Capital Management Release Readiness.

Disclaimer

Benefits

Oracle Fusion 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.

Affordable Care Act Override

Override or add missing values in the 1095-C report, in the United States, using the new ACA spreadsheet. You generate your 1095-C report for employees once a year, at the end of the year, but if you implemented Benefits midyear, a proportion of the data required for reporting might not be available. That’s because some of it might still exist in the legacy application. Using the new spreadsheet to override or add any values enables you to generate an up-to-date 1095-C report.

If your data is correct and complete, you do not need to complete this action.

Export and Import Rates and Coverages User Values

Use the plan copy feature to export and import rates and coverages user values associated with a sick or vacation time sell plan. You can do this initially, but you cannot do it a second time because the plan or program is already in the destination environment. So if you want to just export and import new or changed user values, we’ve delivered a new service in Functional Setup Manager to enable you to do so.

Bulk Upload of Payments and Adjustments in Benefit Billing

Upload bulk payments and adjustments using the new spreadsheet loader as part of your benefit billing activity. You could previously record payments received from individuals and make adjustments, including credits and arrears, through a user interface, but now you can upload them en masse. This is useful for customers who handle hundreds of payments every month.

Improved Rates Spreadsheet Loaders

Edit standard rates quickly with element and input values, along with other payroll processing data, using the improved Rates spreadsheet loader. Not only can you quickly edit standard rates, but you can now also create the rates themselves individually or in bulk through the spreadsheet loader.

Managing Derived Factors in Bulk

Use the new spreadsheet loader to create, edit or delete derived factors in bulk. You can use the spreadsheet to search for or enter data for any of the values originally available in the user interface. To enable you to do this, we’ve added the Prepare in Workbook button on the Manage Derived Factors page.

You cannot delete derived factors if they are already in use.

Enhanced Formula Functions

Compensation and Total Compensation Statement

Compensation

Oracle Fusion Compensation enables your organization to plan, allocate, and communicate compensation using the most complete solution in the market. Make better business decisions using embedded analytics and a total compensation view of workers, regardless of geographic location or pay package components.

Process Monitoring for Grade Step Progression

Streamline grade step progression processing by easily moving between submitting and monitoring your batch processes. Eliminate unnecessary information with the removal of the trial run parameter. The Monitor Processes page opens in a new tab after you submit a process from Run Grade Step Progression or Synchronize Grade Step Rates pages in the Compensation work area. We removed the trial run parameter now that you can select the manual confirmation type for both processes.

Grade Step Progression Enhanced Logic for Multiple Assignment Updates per Day

Reduce time spent manually resolving errors with the enhanced date logic in the grade step progression process. Grade Step Progression no longer generates an error if there is an existing assignment record on the same date as the proposed progression date.

Updated Modeling User Interface

Reduce confusion during modeling using the simplified navigation and guided flow. Include or exclude workers from a model. You can add to manager budgets instead of overwriting amounts.

Lock Worksheet During Refresh Process

Lock the Workforce Compensation worksheet during the Refresh Workforce Compensation Data process run. Locking the worksheet improves process performance and prevents users from receiving a locking error during the run.

Individual Worker Display

Configure a worksheet page to show more information about an individual worker. Use the worksheet to show overall and summary information and the individual worker page to show detail. You can configure the information as a single page or with side tiles divided into different areas.

Worklist Notifications Based on Reports

Configure approval notifications for Compensation based on Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Reports as it fits your organization. Use the Oracle BI Publisher tool to configure report templates. The notifications for Manage Salary, Manage Compensation, Manage Personal Contribution are enhanced to utilize BIP rich-text field (RTF) templates in this release. This enhancement presents a modern, sleek notification that allows you to easily modify the layout, if desired.

Total Compensation Salary as a Source

Use the new compensation item source type of Salary to display overall salaries in the statement. Now you can associate a compensation item with a particular Salary Basis, or from a particular Legislative Data Group, or simply All Salaries.

Annual Amount Calculation Change in Grade Step Progression

See improvements in performance, we now calculate and store the annual amounts displayed on the Review Proposed Progressions and Salary Updates page during the batch run.

Support Separate Approval Rules for Personal Contribution and Individual Compensation

Define separate approval rules for personal contribution and individual compensation by using the module identifier attribute.

Payroll

Global Payroll

Oracle Fusion 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.

Proration of Costing Results

Enable the proration of costing results when the costing information is updated in the middle of a payroll period at various costing levels, such as Payroll Relationship, Payroll Assignment, Payroll Relationship Element, Payroll Assignment Element, and Element Entry.

Costing Results Report Using Extracts

Enhance the reporting of costing results by using the new costing report that uses extract architecture. This new architecture improves the performance for a large volume results. The new report is called Run Payroll Costing Results. This new report is replacing the Run Payroll Costing Report. Please make plans to move to the new report soon, as the Run Payroll Costing Report will no longer be available to select in 19A, you will only see the new report Run Payroll Costing Results.

Multi-Language Support in Payslips

Generate payslips for employees in multiple languages based on what the employee's correspondence language is. For example, you can choose to generate payslips for say 100 employees in Spanish while the rest of the employees get their payslips in English by default.

Payroll Transfer Support for Assignment Level Element Entries

Use the payroll transfer feature to transfer a worker to a different payroll, such as from a weekly to a monthly payroll. Based on the entry processing rules defined for the element, this feature enables you to control the date's element entries are processed for a worker in the original payroll as well as the new payroll. This feature is for assignment level element entries.

Removed Payroll Dependency for Non-Recurring Element Entries

Create non-recurring element entries as single date entry for workers not assigned to a payroll, such as a weekly payroll.

This feature applies to HCM customers who are not running HCM Cloud Payroll.

Process Bank Corrections File Flow Pattern

Use the new Process Bank Corrections File flow pattern to make updates to employee bank account details and reissue check payments when EFT payments have been rejected by the bank.

Personal Payment Method and Payslip Security Changes

Improved security now secures self-service personal payment method and payslip pages independently from professional personal payment method and payslip pages with the newly defined security privileges.

Flow Task Submission from Within a Checklist

Submit additional tasks that are not included in the original flow pattern. After submitting a flow pattern, you can now submit additional tasks from within the checklist. The submitted additional tasks are processed in separate flows.

Payroll for Canada

Payroll for Oracle Fusion 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.

Sales Tax

Perform sales tax calculations on specific benefits in payroll, if the element is configured as such. For the classifications below, you may now configure an element to calculate various sales taxes.

Taxable benefits
Employer liabilities
Voluntary deductions

Payroll for China

Payroll for Oracle Fusion 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.

Social Security Validation Rule Added to the Payroll Data Validation Report

Increase payroll handling efficiency by displaying messages on the Payroll Data Validation Report when the setup information required for social security and enterprise annuity calculation is missing at the payroll statutory unit deduction card level.

HR Optimization

Workforce Rewards Transactional Business Intelligence

Oracle Fusion 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.

Compensation

Compensation Manager - Improved Query Performance

Improve the performance of queries that leverage the Compensation Manager attributes. Streamlined objects on this dimension have led to results returned in less time.

Compensation Manager Dimension - Performance Improvement

Use improved performance of the analyses that leverage the compensation manager hierarchy dimension. The object changes to the compensation manager dimension provide a significant performance improvement without affecting the functionality of the dimension.

Payroll

New Subject Area - Payroll-Payroll Flows Real Time

Enhance your reporting on payroll with the addition of a new subject area to report on the payroll flow tasks and scheduled processes. With this enhancement the customers can monitor the processes to check if any system failures have occurred during the process execution, any performance issues or delay in the run time to analyze the impact on the business.

Key metrics to analyze the data includes the total processed records, unprocessed records and error records. Additionally other important attributes includes the start and end dates of the process, task status, payroll flow status and so on.

Bank Account Building Society Roll No in Payroll Subject Areas

Enhance your reporting on Payroll subject areas with the inclusion of additional attributes to report on the Building Society Roll No of the default bank accounts. This attribute is added to both Source and Target Bank folders. The name of the attribute in these folders are 'Secondary Account Reference'.

Bank Details - Building Society Roll Number

Enhance your reporting on bank details in payroll subject areas with the new attribute 'Building Society Roll Number'. This attribute is added to both Source Bank and Target Bank folders. This is added to the following subject areas:

Payroll - Personal payment details real time and Payroll - Payments Distribution Real Time.

June Maintenance Pack for 18A

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 JUN 2018	Payroll Interface: ADP Workforce Now Integration	Delivered new feature in the June Monthly Maintenance Pack for 18A, which will also be included in the August Quarterly Maintenance Pack.
25 MAY 2018		Created initial document.

Overview

Oracle HCM Cloud release documents are delivered in five functional groupings:

Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

HCM Cloud Common Features (This document pertains to all HCM applications. It is the base human resource information for all products and HCM Tools.)
Global Human Resources Cloud (Global Human Resources contains the base application in which other application use for common data such as workforce structures and person information. Regardless of what products you have implemented you may want to see the new features for Global Human Resources that could impact your products.)

NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for the base Talent and Compensation stand alone applications.

Optional Reading for HCM Products (Depending on what products are in your cloud service):

Talent Management Cloud (All Talent applications)
Workforce Rewards Cloud (Compensation, Benefits, Payroll and Global Payroll Interface)
Workforce Management Cloud (Absence Management and Time and Labor)

Additional Optional Reading:

Common Technologies and User Experience (This documents the common features across all Cloud applications and is not specific to HCM)

NOTE: All of these documents can be found on the Oracle Help Center at: https://cloud.oracle.com/saasreadiness/hcm under Human Capital Management Release Readiness.

Disclaimer

Payroll

Payroll for Canada

Sales Tax

Perform sales tax calculations on specific benefits in payroll, if the element is configured as such. For the classifications below, you may now configure an element to calculate various sales taxes.

Taxable benefits
Employer liabilities
Voluntary deductions

Payroll for the United States

Electronic Income Withholding Orders Inbound Process Enhancement

Enhance the processing of electronic income withholding orders (e-IWO) inbound process through new handling of the employee work state. If the issuing state on the incoming order is not the employee’s work state, the inbound process now uses the employee’s work state to create or update the Involuntary Deductions card component. For employees working in multiple states, the process uses the issuing state.

Tax Withholding Card Enhancement for Guam

Updated the Guam regional component of employee Tax Withholding card. You can now make your updates directly on the Guam component rather than on the Federal component.

Payroll Interface

Oracle Fusion Global Payroll Interface supports features to send personal payroll information to third-party payroll providers and then to import processed payroll data into Oracle Fusion Global HR. You can copy and modify predefined extract definitions to meet the requirements of your third-party payroll provider. Before extracting data, payroll coordinators can optionally run the Calculate Gross Earnings process to calculate periodic values to validate gross earnings calculations. If you import processed payroll data or payslips from your third-party payroll provider, the data is available for further reporting and analysis.

ADP Workforce Now Integration

Increase efficiency by integrating the Global Payroll Interface Report extracts with ADP-Workforce Now payroll for third-party payroll processing. Extract global and country-specific fields for US in a CSV format to comply with the Workforce Now standards. Use the extended flex field contexts that are delivered for Workforce Now to capture the relevant data.

May Maintenance Pack for 18A

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
27 APR 2018		Created initial document.

Overview

Oracle HCM Cloud release documents are delivered in five functional groupings:

Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

HCM Cloud Common Features (This document pertains to all HCM applications. It is the base human resource information for all products and HCM Tools.)
Global Human Resources Cloud (Global Human Resources contains the base application in which other application use for common data such as workforce structures and person information. Regardless of what products you have implemented you may want to see the new features for Global Human Resources that could impact your products.)

NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for the base Talent and Compensation stand alone applications.

Optional Reading for HCM Products (Depending on what products are in your cloud service):

Talent Management Cloud (All Talent applications)
Workforce Rewards Cloud (Compensation, Benefits, Payroll and Global Payroll Interface)
Workforce Management Cloud (Absence Management and Time and Labor)

Additional Optional Reading:

Common Technologies and User Experience (This documents the common features across all Cloud applications and is not specific to HCM)

NOTE: All of these documents can be found on the Oracle Help Center at: https://cloud.oracle.com/saasreadiness/hcm under Human Capital Management Release Readiness.

Disclaimer

Payroll

Payroll for the United Kingdom

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

Reporting P11D and P11D(b)

Generate and report P11D employee benefits and expenses statements as well as P11D(b) employer declaration information to submit to HMRC.

April Maintenance Pack for 18A

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
30 MAR 2018		Created initial document.

Overview

Oracle HCM Cloud release documents are delivered in five functional groupings:

Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

HCM Cloud Common Features (This document pertains to all HCM applications. It is the base human resource information for all products and HCM Tools.)
Global Human Resources Cloud (Global Human Resources contains the base application in which other application use for common data such as workforce structures and person information. Regardless of what products you have implemented you may want to see the new features for Global Human Resources that could impact your products.)

NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for the base Talent and Compensation stand alone applications.

Optional Reading for HCM Products (Depending on what products are in your cloud service):

Talent Management Cloud (All Talent applications)
Workforce Rewards Cloud (Compensation, Benefits, Payroll and Global Payroll Interface)
Workforce Management Cloud (Absence Management and Time and Labor)

Additional Optional Reading:

Common Technologies and User Experience (This documents the common features across all Cloud applications and is not specific to HCM)

NOTE: All of these documents can be found on the Oracle Help Center at: https://cloud.oracle.com/saasreadiness/hcm under Human Capital Management Release Readiness.

Disclaimer

Payroll

Payroll for the United Kingdom

Gender Pay Gap Reporting

Extract data into a comma-separated values (CSV) file to enable calculation and reporting of Gender Pay Gap figures.

Scottish Income Tax Rates and Bands

Comply with legislative changes by the Scottish Government for the tax year 2018-2019 to calculate employee taxation accurately according to the latest changes recently announced for the tax bands.

Payroll for the United States

Employee Active Payroll Balance Report Enhancement for Pennsylvania Locals

Augment your balance reconciliation with the addition of a new balance level on the Employee Active Payroll Balance report. This report now includes a Pennsylvania Locals balance level. This balance level includes information specific to Pennsylvania Act 32 local balances, such as the tax collection district code and the work and resident political subdivision codes.

Update 18A

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 JUL 2019	Global Payroll: Transfer of Worker's Payroll During Mass Global Transfer	Updated document. Revised feature information.
29 JUN 2018	Global Payroll: Single PDF for Printing Payslips	Updated document. Revised feature information.
12 JAN 2018		Created initial document.

Overview

Oracle HCM Cloud release documents are delivered in five functional groupings:

Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

HCM Cloud Common Features (This document pertains to all HCM applications. It is the base human resource information for all products and HCM Tools.)
Global Human Resources Cloud (Global Human Resources contains the base application in which other application use for common data such as workforce structures and person information. Regardless of what products you have implemented you may want to see the new features for Global Human Resources that could impact your products.)

NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for the base Talent and Compensation standalone applications.

Optional Reading for HCM Products (Depending on what products are in your cloud service):

Talent Management Cloud (All Talent applications)
Workforce Rewards Cloud (Compensation, Benefits, Payroll and Global Payroll Interface)
Workforce Management Cloud (Absence Management and Time and Labor)

Additional Optional Reading:

Common Technologies and User Experience (This documents the common features across all Cloud applications and is not specific to HCM)

NOTE: All of these documents can be found on the Oracle Help Center at: https://cloud.oracle.com/saasreadiness/hcm under Human Capital Management Release Readiness.

Disclaimer

Benefits

View Past, Current and Future Enrollments More Easily

Enable participants to see which enrollments they have today, in the past and in the future more easily. This helps participants quickly view what their elections are on a given date. Now, when they select View Current and Future Benefits from the self-service enrollments landing page, instead of toggling between the future and current benefits information, they can see all the information they require on the same page. To achieve this, the participant can select a date between three years in the past from today up to one year in the future in the Effective Date at the top of the page to display their enrollments. They can also select the programs and plans-not-in-program to view from a list. If there is only one program or plan-not-in-program, the list doesn’t display and they automatically see the program or plans-not-in-program they are enrolled in. If the user isn't covered by a program or plan-not-in-program on the queried date, then the program or plan doesn’t display – it only displays once their coverage begins.

Create Vacation or Sick Time Sell Plans

Create plans to enable participants to sell vacation or sick time during enrollment. You can now create vacation or sick time sell plans and appropriate rates, including a new calculation method, to work with these new plans. As this vacation and sick time sell functionality is fully integrated with Oracle Fusion Absence Management, any vacation or sick time sell choices the participant elects are integrated with Absence Management. Participants are able to see their balance during enrollment.

You create your vacation and sick time sell plans in the same way as you would your regular plans, but using two new plan functions to differentiate these type of plans. You can also use the new Manage Rate and Coverage User Values task to create the values to appear on the enrollment flow. When you finish defining your vacation and sick time sell plans participants can select them during open enrollment or an annual anniversary. Participants access the Enrollments flow the usual way and the new plans to select appear, if the participant is eligible. There is also enrollment upload support for vacation and sick time sell plans from the Evaluation and Reporting work area. Existing diagnostic reports have additional columns to support vacation and sick time sell plans, and new database items are available.

Create List of Values to Appear on Enrollment Pages

Take advantage of the Manage Rate and Coverage User Values functionality to create list of values on the enrollment pages. Although this functionality enables you to create vacation or sick time sell plans, you can also use it to create lists to appear on the enrollment flow that a participant can select values from. For example, if you wanted to capture information during enrollment about smokers in your organization, you can create a user value for smokers, and create individual values to display in the list such as Yes, No, Hardly ever, and so on.

Determine Eligibility Based on Unions and Collective Agreements

Determine eligibility based on unions and collective agreements. There is a new tab for employment bargaining, called Labor Relations. The Bargaining Unit and Labor Union Member tabs have been moved from the Employment tab and added to the new Labor Relations tab, along with the two new tabs, Union and Collective Agreement. You can define eligibility around employment bargaining all from one place, the Labor Relations tab.

Unions, collective agreements, and bargaining units can exist in any combination.

Compensation

Enable Salary Range Differentials by Business Unit

Configure salary range differentials using additional criteria of business unit or business unit and location.

Payroll

Global Payroll

Enhancement to Organization Payment Method Overrides in Prepayments

Using the new 'Overrides OPM or Payment Source in the Prepayment Process' action parameter, customers now have the flexibility to provide an override organization payment method or payment source for employees or third-parties when submitting the prepayments process.

Balance Group Extract Definition Reporting

Enhance the reporting of payroll balances by producing an extract based on a selected balance group. The extract definition may be used as is, or it may be copied and modified as needed.

Correct Worker’s Hire Date After Running Payroll for the Worker

Correct a worker’s hire date after running payroll processes for the worker. If you hire and pay a worker before your payroll department is subsequently informed the worker joined the company on a later date, you can now correct the hire date and still view the workers payroll results.

Transfer of Worker's Payroll During Mass Global Transfer

Transfer automatically a worker's payroll frequency to their new employment record during a mass global transfer. The payroll details held on the worker's assignment record can now be automatically transferred to the new assignment record that is created during the mass global transfer process.

Single PDF for Printing Payslips

Generate a single output file containing all payslips for employees who get a paper payslip, thereby making it easier to print. For example, if your organization has 100 employees who opt for paper payslip, you no longer need to print 100 separate output files.

Payroll for China

Include Leave Payment and Deduction in Tax and Social Security Calculation and Reporting

Increase productivity by leveraging better integration between Absence Management and Payroll. For leave types such as annual leave cash-out and personal leave that require payment and/or deduction to be made during the payroll calculation, the absence information now flows from Absence Management to Payroll. Leave payment and deduction are calculated during the payroll run, and the incurring payment and/or deduction amount is included in the monthly individual income tax calculation and reporting, as well as in the corresponding social security contribution calculation.

Payroll for Kuwait

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

Gratuity Payment Element: Retroactive Element

Simplify the process for gratuity payments. A retroactive element has been provided for the gratuity payment element, to allow retroactive changes to gratuity payments or to process an agreed late payment of gratuity. For example, an employee with 30th April as the termination date has an agreement that the final payment will be made later, for example 4th May. In order to pay gratuity at the agreed time, the retro process will verify that the gratuity payment element has not been processed, and then generate the gratuity payment retro element with the appropriate details for the correct payment.

Prevent Duplicates of Employee Social Insurance Calculation Card

Assure data validity. The employee social insurance details calculation card can be generated automatically or created manually. Employee social insurance details calculation cards cannot be duplicated in Kuwait. An error message is generated if an attempt is made to manually create a duplicate social insurance calculation card.

Gratuity Calculation Card Update

Comply with legislative requirements. The date mode for the Kuwait gratuity calculation card has been set to date earned. This means that the payroll process can select the gratuity element in a payroll period that is different from the actual termination date payroll period.

Payroll for Qatar

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

Social Insurance Calculation Update

Comply with legislative requirements. The calculation value definitions for the Bahrain employee and employer rates in the government sector, the Oman employer rate in the government sector, and the UAE employee and employer rates in both the private and government sectors reflect the latest legislative update for GCC citizens working in Qatar.

Payroll for the United Arab Emirates

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

Gratuity Payment Element: Retroactive Element

Prevent Duplicates of Employee Social Insurance Calculation Card

Assure data validity. The employee social insurance or pension fund details calculation card can be generated automatically or created manually. Employee social insurance or pension fund details calculation cards cannot be duplicated in the UAE. An error message is generated if an attempt is made to manually create a duplicate social insurance calculation card.

Social Insurance Contributions Bank Account Format

Comply with legislative requirements. Employees registered with GPSSA have their own accounts with GPSSA, which are in the format Country code (AE) + GPSSA ID (008510) + Emirates ID. The employer transfers both the employee and employer Social Insurance contribution amounts every month to this bank account.

A third party organization must be created for each Social Insurance office as an external payee, and the relevant third party must be associated with the social insurance or pension fund details component of the social insurance or pension fund details calculation card, for each employee. The EFT process will use the details from the social insurance external payee and the Emirates ID of the employee to create the required bank account number.

Payroll for the United States

Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for the United States supports US-specific features and functionality. It enables users to follow the US's business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

New York Family Leave Insurance Deduction

Automate New York Family Leave Insurance deductions through the new NY State Disability calculation component. You can enable this deduction on the payroll statutory unit and tax reporting unit calculation cards. All employees associated with those organizations would become eligible.

Transactional Business Intelligence

Workforce Rewards Transactional Business Intelligence

Payroll

Enhanced Subject Area for Payroll - Element Entries History

Report with the enhanced Element Entries History Real Time subject area. The enhanced area includes new dimensions to report on the costing key flex fields setup data for various costing levels with respect to a person. The new dimensions that are added includes:

Payroll Cost Allocation : This dimension/folder would be a place holder for all costing levels. This contains multiple sub folders that contains various costing and account information.
Element Eligibility - Provides information on the eligibility of an employee for an element, such as department eligibility, job eligibility.

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