Oracle Human Resources Cloud 20A New Feature Summary

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MARCH MAINTENANCE PACK FOR 20A

Revision History
Overview
Human Resources
1. Global Human Resources
  1. 1. New Message Added on Manage Person Page
2. Global Payroll Interface
  1. US ADP Payroll Interface
  2. 1. ADP Workforce Now Supports W-4 2020 Federal Changes

FEBRUARY MAINTENANCE PACK FOR 20A

Revision History
Overview
Human Resources

Update 20A

Revision History
Overview
Human Resources
Worklife Solutions
HR Optimizations

March Maintenance Pack for 20A

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 MAR 2020	Global Payroll Interface/US ADP Payroll Interface: ADP Workforce Now Supports W-4 2020 Federal Changes	Updated document. Delivered feature in March Maintenance Pack for 20A.
28 FEB 2020		Created initial document.

Overview

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

Release Updates (20A, 20B, 20C, and 20D)
Optional Monthly Maintenance Packs to each update

It is important for you to know what Release Update your environment is on. You can find this in your Cloud Portal.

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

Date	Feature	Notes
28 FEB 2020	Global Human Resources/Redesigned User Experience: Assignment Extensible Flexfields Included in Employment Flows	Updated document. Delivered feature in February Maintenance Pack for 20A.
31 JAN 2020		Created initial document.

Date	Feature	Notes
06 DEC 2019		Created initial document.

Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

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

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

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

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

Additional Optional Reading:

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

Disclaimer

The Information contained in this document may include statements about Oracle’s product development plans. Many factors can materially affect Oracle’s product development plans and the nature and timing of future product releases. Accordingly, this Information is provided to you solely for information only, is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

Human Resources

Global Human Resources

Send Checklist Notifications to Worker's Home Email

Send checklist email notifications to home email, in addition to work email, for pending workers and terminated workers. Notification is sent to the home email only if the worker does not have an active primary employee or contingent worker assignment with the enterprise as of the date the checklist task is allocated.

Enhanced Electronic Signature for Checklist Tasks

Leverage the electronic signature checklist task type that includes the following enhanced features:

Storage of the IP address of the device from which the electronic signature was provided by the signer.
Storage of the electronically signed document, based on a custom BI template, directly in Document Records

Quick Navigation Using Deep Link in Checklist Task Notification

Improve user experience and reduce multiple clicks for users with the direct navigation to the task from the checklist task notification. Previously, users were taken to the Onboarding or Checklist tasks' landing page from the notification, now it takes then directly to the specific task page when they click on the task URL in the notification.

Improve User Experience of Checklist Task Notes

Provide a better user experience by hiding or configuring headers that are meaningful for the task.

The options that you can specify per task are:

Hide the Notes header
Change the Notes header

Move Generated Report from Checklist Tasks Into Document Records

Move generated reports automatically from a checklist task of the type Report into Document Records by specifying a document type in the configuration of the task.

Delete Allocated Checklists Using HDL

Use HCM Data Loader (HDL) to delete allocated checklists and manage your checklists effectively.

Disposal of Document Records and Delivery Preferences from HCM Cloud

Streamline data protection requirements of individuals and the organization for Document Records and Document Delivery Preferences. These business objects can be removed only for terminated workers using the Remove Person Information feature.

Enhanced Security for Employment-Related Approval Notifications

Allow approvers having access to workers' employment information to also view their assignment data in the employment-related approval notifications. Even if the approvers don’t have the access to initiate employment transactions for workers, they can now view their assignment data from the approval notifications.

Data Comparison in Notification Message After Approval

Enhance the ability of users to review the data changes in the notification message before and after the approval process. The post-approval notification message will now display the data comparison between the values before and after the approval process.

Default Display of National Identifier Section

Enable and edit all fields in the National Identifier section when you edit a worker in the following tasks:

Convert Pending Worker
Edit Pending Worker
Create Work Relationship

The section will display all the fields and you can edit them when the section is specified as required in the Transaction Design Studio.

Include Comments and Attachments When Submitting Share Transactions for Approval

Improve decision making for approvers of Share Data Access and Share Personal Info transactions by including comments and attachments when submitting your transactions for approval.

Global HR Redesigned User Experience

Additional Transaction Design Studio Support for Share Personal Info Task

Configure the user experience for Share Personal Info which has additional configuration options in the Transaction Design Studio. You can now set the Citizenship, Legislative Info, National Identifiers and Personal and Contact Info sections of the page to 'Not visible'.

Force Complete an Allocated Checklist

Manage allocated checklists effectively by using the force complete feature for an allocated checklist in the Allocate Checklists redesigned user experience. This feature enables you to force close all open tasks of that checklist and it is available in HCM Data Loader (HDL), HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader (HSDL) , and in the REST API for Allocated Checklists.

Human Capital Management for Australia

Oracle HRMS (Australia) supports country specific features and functions for Australia. It enables users to follow Australia’s business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

Disability Self-Disclosure

Improve usability by allowing employees to self-disclose any disabilities to their employer.

Human Capital Management for China

Oracle Fusion HRMS (China) supports country specific features and functions for China. It enables users to follow the Chinese business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

Updated Nationality to Citizenship for the Worker Data Validation Report

Update the term 'Nationality' to 'Citizenship' in the Worker Data Validation Report to be consistent with the term used on the pages.

Expatriate Field Is Optional

See the Expatriate field is now optional. You can submit the Run Worker Data Validation Report to get a list of all the employees whose citizen identification numbers, pass numbers, or passport numbers are missing.

Human Capital Management for India

Oracle HRMS (India) supports country specific features and functions for India. It enables users to follow India’s business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

Disability Self-Disclosure

Enable employees to self-disclose their disabilities and upload their disability certificates. This information can be used by HR to make workplace adjustments, and for further analysis and reporting.

Human Capital Management for Italy

Oracle Fusion HRMS (Italy) supports country specific features and functions for Italy. It enables users to follow the Italy’s business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

Vacation Absence Accrual Formula

Calculate entitlement and current leave balance with the new Vacation Accrual formula for annual leave in days, and additional leave in hours. This formula also handles horizontal and vertical part-time proration, carry over of previous years outstanding leave, hire and termination proration, and impact of unpaid leaves on accrual and seniority days additional entitlements.

Global Payroll Interface

Global Payroll Interface Supports Additional Person Habit and Disability Attributes

Use the additional person habit, namely Tobacco usage, and disability-related attributes in the Global Data section in your interface with third-party payroll applications. If you wish to report these attributes with the other changes in the next incremental run, ensure that you run a baseline extraction after this feature is applied. You can perform regular extractions after the baseline extraction is completed.

Global Payroll Interface Supports Person Name in Local Language

Use person names captured in the local language from the LocalPersonName section in the Global Payroll Interface output XML file. If you wish to report these attributes with the other changes in the next incremental run, ensure that you run a baseline extraction after this feature is applied. You can perform regular extractions after the baseline extraction is completed.

ADP Global Payroll Interface Supports Configurable Output Template

Send data to ADP Global Payroll by using the output template that you have configured. You can modify the delivered output template and use the modified template in the ADP Global Payroll Interface. For example, you can hide information that you don’t want to send in the delivered output template.

Worklife Solutions

Oracle Fusion Human Resource Advisor

Oracle Human Resources Help Desk is a native engagement solution that provides robust HR case management capabilities, leading to a superior HR service experience. This application covers all aspects related to service request management for workers, managers, and HR Help Desk agents.

Identify Affected Party in HR Help Desk

Enhance the HR Help Desk feature with the addition of the Affected Party field. Employees can use this field to identify a person who is affected by a service request. For example, when an employee submits a service request for someone else, they use the Affected Party field to identify that person.

Refresh Service Request List in HR Help Desk

Enhance the HR Help Desk feature with the addition of a new Refresh icon for the HR Service Requests list page. Employees can click the Refresh button to check for service request updates without having to modify or toggle the current saved search.

Workforce Reputation Management

Oracle Workforce Reputation Management harnesses social networks to help organizations discover, mobilize, and retain talent. This functionality provides insight into workers' social reputation and influence while also monitoring workers' social media usage compliance and mitigating social media risk.

Create Mentorship Profile

Make your mentorship profile more meaningful by using it to showcase your story, career highlights, and areas of interest. Create and edit your mentorship profile on a regular basis to make your profile relevant and interesting.

Request for Mentor Job Shadowing

Train and learn a skill quickly and effectively by requesting to job shadow a mentor. Job shadowing is listed as an option in the mentor request type drop-down list.

Request Mentoring for Direct Report

Initiate mentoring requests for direct reports. All direct reports listed in the Team Skills page have the Add Mentor action that can be used to initiate a mentor request.

Send Organizational Surveys

Send surveys on important topics to the entire organization in addition to direct reports and peers for feedback from a wide audience.

Workforce Health and Safety Incidents

Oracle Health and Safety supports corporate initiatives to track and improve health and safety in the workplace.

OTBI Reporting for Data Security Incidents

Create OTBI reports for Data Security Incidents including events, investigations, and actions.

Health and Safety Redesigned User Experience/Responsive Pages

Workforce Health and Safety Redesigned User Experience

Corporate Social Responsibility

Oracle Corporate Social Responsibility represents a corporation's initiatives to take responsibility for its effects on the environment and social well-being. Corporate social responsibility is increasingly becoming a decisive factor in HR processes to recruit, retain, and motivate the most qualified employees.

Oracle Volunteering enables organizations to promote corporate social responsibility initiatives by creating service opportunities for employees to engage and get involved in causes that are most important to each individual.

Join Campaigns

Promote and increase awareness about corporate volunteering initiatives using campaigns. Campaigns allow employees to easily discover and join volunteering projects that are associated with a campaign.

Add Photos

Upload photos for completed volunteering projects and share them with other volunteers. With the photo approval setting enabled it’s easier to manage photos and quickly take action on reported photos.

Transactional Business Intelligence for Human Capital Management

Oracle Fusion Transactional Business Intelligence is a real time, self service reporting solution offered to all Oracle® Fusion 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.

HR Optimizations

Global HR

Enhanced Assignment Subject Areas

Enhance your reporting on Assignment Real Time and Assignment Event Real Time subject areas with the addition of attributes to report on employment related information.

The following attributes are added to Assignment Details and Assignment Event details subject areas:

Grade Step Progression Eligibility Indicator
Seniority Basis
Automatic Calculation of Work Measures

Effective Dates in EFF's

Enhance your reporting on extensible flex fields with the inclusion of effective start and end dates. With this enhancement you can report on the history data of these EFF's:

PER_ORGANIZATION_INFORMATION_EFF
PER_LOCATION_LEG_EFF
PER_LOCATION_INFORMATION_EFF
PER_JOBS_LEG_EFF
PER_JOBS_EIT_EFF
PER_POSITIONS_LEG_EFF
PER_POSITIONS_EIT_EFF
PER_ASSIGNMENT_EIT_EFF
PERSON EFF

Termination Notification Date Enhancement

Enhance your reporting on worker details with the inclusion of the Termination Notification Date attribute, which reports on the date when the worker provided notice of their termination. This attribute is added to the Worker dimension across all subject areas.

Termination Attributes in Work Relationship Real Time

Enhance your reporting on terminations with the inclusion of the following attributes in the Work Relationship Details folder in the Work Relationship subject area:

Termination Reason
Termination Category

Modified Column Names - Work Relationship Real Time

Improve your reporting on the Workforce Management - Work Relationship Real Time subject area with the renaming of a few columns. The columns and their changed named include:

Worker Type > Period Type
Worker Type Code > Period Type Code
# of Days Service > Days of Service
# of Months Service > Months of Service
# of Years Service > Years of Service

Department Dimension Enhancements

Enhance your reporting on departments by using these attributes:

Department > Manager Person Number
Department > Hierarchy > Tree Version Effective Start Date
Department > Hierarchy > Tree Version Effective End Date

Global HR OTBI Replaced or Removed Features

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

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

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

Removed Columns - Document of Records Real Time Subject Area

Analyze and modify your existing analyses that leverage the following attributes. These columns have been removed from the Workforce Management - Documents of Record Real Time subject area in 20A.

Dimension	Attributes
Document Type	Restrict Add Attachment Restrict Update Attachment Restrict Delete Attachment
Document of Record Details	Status