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PeopleSoft HCM Newsletter August 2024

Luke Hodges

Upcoming PeopleSoft HCM 2024 User Groups/Webinars/Conferences:

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

Congratulations to this month’s PeopleSoft HCM Innovator:

Congratulations to Norwegian Cruise Line, deployed PeopleSoft Enterprise Learning Management. The business drivers were to remove duplicate handling of data, facilitate integration, reduce additional license fees, drive engagement, and manage compliance initiatives internally through learning.

  • Congratulations to County of King, WA for deploying Remote Worker
  • Congratulations to County of San Diego, CA for deploying Gender Identity
  • Congratulations to Port of Seattle, WA for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.61
  • Congratulations to Princeton University for deploying Payroll Insights
  • Congratulations to Seminole State College of Florida for deploying Quick Calc
  • Congratulations to University of Calgary for deploying Total Rewards Statement and Remote Worker and Fluid ePerformance
  • Congratulations to University of Georgia Systems for deploying Component Lockdown
  • Congratulations to Western Michigan University for deploying Fluid Personal Data and Fluid Job Data

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

  • Global Payroll/Absence Management – Focus group met to review and discuss the design for the GP Rapid Calculation feature.
  • Insights – The focus group provided a 3–5-minute update on their Insights initiatives including demos, new tips and tricks to share with the group, or questions for others. The sharing of information between the customers at the August meetings was fantastic. Note: Workgroup has moved from monthly to quarterly meeting.
  • Enterprise Learning Management (ELM) – We met and discussed the image being released in October.  Be on the lookout for our October focus group, which will meet on the first Thursday of the month.
  • Onboarding – The focus group will meet on October 9th to discuss multiuser use cases for onboarding and the possible need for a trans boarding solution.
  • Tuition Reimbursement – Focus group met and reviewed and provided feedback on the first designs of this feature.  We will meet again in late October.

 ***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 – Revised Employee and Applicant Veteran self-identification form – U.S.A. Update – PRP posted
  • Brazil -Updates for PeopleSoft HCM regarding Technical Note No. 04/2024 of Simplified eSocial have been made available, the layout of which was published on June 28, 2024, specifically adjusting eConsignado project requirements.
  • United Kingdom – The Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Act 2023, will come into force from April 2025. The new legislation will give parents the right to take neonatal care leave and receive neonatal care pay.
  • Malaysia -The Ministry of Human Resources through the Social Security Organization(SOCSO)  had announced the Extension of the Invalidity Scheme coverage to foreign workers under the Employees’ Social Security Act 1969 (Act 4), effective July 01, 2024.
  • Australia – The Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) presented the territory’s budget for the 2024-25 fiscal year on June 25, 2024. The budget incorporates taxation changes that form part of the ACT’s ongoing tax modernization program.

PeopleSoft Update – Click here for schedule of release dates

  • HCM Image 51 – posting January 31, 2025*
  • HCM Image 52 – posting May 23, 2025*
  • HCM Image 53 – posting September 26, 2025*
  • HCM Image 54 – posting January 30, 2026*
  • ELM Image 24 – posting October 18, 2024*
  • ELM Image 25 – posting October 17, 2025*
  • CRM Image 22 – posting October 15, 2024*
  • CRM Image 23 – posting October 24, 2025*

*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

 PeopleSoft General Update

PeopleSoft HCM Customer Advisor Board (CAB) Meeting

Tammy (Oracle) discussing HR Insights

Rebekah (Oracle) talking about AI at this year’s CAB meeting.

Southeast RUG Meetup – Atlanta, GA

Alex Mann (Oracle, Group Vice President) presenting at PeopleSoft Innovation Day, Hong Kong

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