Upcoming 2022 User Groups/Webinars/Conferences:

• Northwest Regional User Group Conference: May 17-18, 2022, Seattle, WA
• VIVE Spain User Group Conference:  Madrid, Spain, June 2-3, 2022
• Oracle Public Sector User Group Meeting – June 7, 2022
• BLUEPRINT 4D – The PeopleSoft Forum: June 6 – 9, 2022, Las Vegas, NV
• HIUG’s Interact Conference: June 12 – 16, 2022, Miami, FL
• Payroll for NA SIG Monthly Meeting – June 14, 2022
• Breakthrough’22 : December 1-2, 2022, Birmingham, England
• PeopleSoft and Cloud Applications Webinar Series

RV’s Strategy Spotlight

We hope to see everyone in Las Vegas next month for Blueprint 4D, which will provide plenty of opportunities for you to network with other PeopleSoft customers, attend keynote presentations, 20+ Oracle roadmap and update presentations, hot-topic sessions, and 150+ sessions across PeopleSoft, Oracle Cloud, and Oracle Database & Technology.    If you are a healthcare industry PeopleSoft customer, you are probably already aware of the HIUG Interact 2022 conference that takes place in Miami the week following Blueprint 4D.  A number of PeopleSoft product people will be there as well to answer questions and deliver presentations.

Customer Corner – Highlights customers who have implemented, upgraded or deployed new HCM Features

Focus Group Updates:   Click on the link to find a focus group to join

• Job Data Working Group – The group met to review best practices for correction mode entry and answered customers’ questions regarding Fluid Job Data.
• Human Resource (HR) – The focus group reviewed and then priority ranked new analytics they want for Personal and Job Data.
• Time and Labor – The focus group did not meet this month, but we are meeting next month to review the new Employee Scheduling feature and adding the View By period selector to the fluid timesheets.
• Absence Management – The focus group reviewed and discussed the changes being made to Absence Forecasting, including how the balances are displayed.  We also discussed the integration of Absence Management into the new ESS Scheduling feature in Time and Labor, and reviewed the recently delivered Team and Employee Calendars.
• Benefits– Focus group met to review the design of the Benefits Statement Configuration that is on our roadmap. Customers expressed a lot of excitement over this enhancement and the benefits it will bring. The focus group saw a preview of the Benefits Plan Comparison that is to be demo’d at the BluePrint conference.
• Accessibility – The group did not meet in April.  We are currently requesting agenda topics from members for our next scheduled call on May 17^th
• Visualization Working Group – Our April meeting included a demo from Vidant Health of their Turnover Dashboard and a great technical discussion in the group on creating your own visualizations.
• Enterprise Learning Management (ELM) – The focus group did not meet in April, as we are continuing to work on fluidization of MSS functions. In our May meeting will be covering the fluid rostering pages and well as design considerations for learning plans.
• HR Help Desk – Focus Group met to discuss requirements for Solution Effectiveness Analytics and prioritize the requirements for high priority analytics

 ***Important Note*** Focus Groups are open to all customers, calls are typically once a month for an hour or as needed.  Your organization needs to have a current CPCA (customer participation confidentiality agreement) since Oracle discloses future design and prototypes.

USA/Global Legislative Updates –https://blogs.oracle.com/PsftLegUpdates/

• United States – Is your organization hiring enough U.S. Veteran employees?
• United States – EEO-1 report is due May 17, 2022 for 2021
• United Kingdom – New templates for P60 for the tax year 2022-23
• Malaysia – New template [C P 8-Pin. 2021] for Borang E/ Form E  has been published by the Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia.
• India – Tax Information Network of Income Tax Department has notified/released the data structure (file format) in which the e-TDS / e-TCS return is to be prepared for Q4 of AY 2022-23 Revised File Format for Form 24Q Version 7.0 is made available
• China – The State Administration of Taxation has introduced a special additional deduction policy – Care of Infants and Children under 3 Years with effect from January 1, 2022.
• Singapore – There are two legislative changes for GP Singapore for the upcoming tax years.
• Brazil – According to the eSocial Guidelines Manual, information related to Training, Capacity Building, Simulated Exercises and Other Notes must be provided by filling in the {treiCap} field of the events S-2200 and S-2206 with one of the codes available in “Table 28 – Training, Capacity Building, Simulated Exercises and Other Notes” and is mandatory from May 23, 2022
• Australia – key superannuation rates and thresholds for the financial year 2022-23

PeopleSoft Update

• HCM Image 43 – posting July 8, 2022*
• HCM Image 44 – posting October 21, 2022*
• ELM Image 22 – posting November 18, 2022*
• CRM Image 21 – posting November 21, 2022*

*Tentative Dates – Oracle Safe Harbor Statement applies.

“Popular &  New” HCM Ideas – Check out and VOTE for your favorite Idea, click here to see all the PeopleSoft Ideas

• HR – ability to configurable page of name, address, phone & email types in ESS – Popular Idea
• HR – Ability for Employees to request an accommodation in self-service – New Idea
• HR – Create Tuition Request/Approval/Reimbursement Module – Popular Idea
• ELM – Delegations in ELM – Popular Idea
• Time & Labor – MSS Fluid Timesheet doesn’t allow for a View By Change that MSS Classic Timesheet does – New Idea
• Time & Labor – MSS Timesheet doesn’t allow for Date Selection – Popular Idea
• Absence – Add retroactive processing capability to leave donations – Popular Idea
• Approvals – Add Additional Filters to Fluid Pending Approvals – Popular Idea

PeopleSoft General Update

• Oracle announces the extension of support for PeopleSoft to 2033, once again reaffirming its commitment to support PeopleSoft for a rolling 10 years. – Blog (Important)
• Image Highlights, PeopleSoft HCM Update Image 42 – Video
• How to Get Some Appreciation from Your Employees with a Total Rewards Statement – Part 1 – Blog
• How to Configure Your Flexible Total Rewards Statement – Part 2 – Blog
• Extract, Review, Fix, Repeat or How to Publish Your Total Rewards Statements – Part 3 – Blog
• Job Data Modernization: Configure Job Actions Summary – Blog
• Job Data Modernization: Allow your HR Administrators to Collaborate Better by using the New ‘Track Comments’ Enhancement – Blog
• The office is empty. Where are my employees? Managers can use visualizations to find their remote working employees. – Blog
• The Team Calendar shows employee events in a calendar format that enables employees to see events related to them and their co-workers. Managers can track their employees and take action from the calendar – Video

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