PeopleSoft HCM Newsletter December 2023

Posted by Luke Hodges
Last updated 1/19/24
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Special Note: We will be starting to send out a FSCM Newsletter in 2024, if you or your colleagues would like to receive the newsletter, email [email protected] to be added.

Upcoming PeopleSoft HCM 2024 User Groups/Webinars/Conferences:

PeopleSoft India SIG 2024 – February 8-9, 2024, Bangalore
PeopleSoft Week 2024: Game Changers – February 26 – March 1, 2024
Oracle Public Sector HCM Meeting – February 27, 2024
PeopleSoft RECONNECT Live! at BLUEPRINT 4D – May 7-10, Dallas, TX

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

Congratulations to this month’s PeopleSoft HCM Innovators:

- - Congratulations to Artech who enhanced the user experience for its over 57,000 users by adopting PeopleSoft fluid features and global search.
  - Congratulations to Los Rios Community College District who is now using PeopleSoft real-time indexing.

Congratulations to Hamilton Company (NEW CUSTOMER) for implementing Absence Mgmt, Benefits, Payroll, Time & Labor and Fluid Job Data
Congratulations to AARP for deploying Fluid Life Event, Open Enrollment, Fluid Position Management, Fluid Job Data, Fluid Timesheets and Drop Zones
Congratulations to Calgary Catholic School District for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.60
Congratulations to City of Eugene, OR for deploying Fluid Job Data
Congratulations to County of Clackamas, OR for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.60
Congratulations Deakin University for deploying Fluid ePerformance
Congratulations to J. Paul Getty Trust for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.60
Congratulations to Metropolitan Water District of Southern California for implementing Time & Labor and Absence Management
Congratulations to Olin Corp for deploying Fluid Position Management, Fluid Job & Personal Data and upgrading to PeopleTools 8.60
Congratulations to School District of Seminole County, FL for deploying Guided Self Service
Congratulations to University of Montréal for deploying Fluid Job Data
Congratulations to University of Pretoria for deploying Remote Worker

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

Human Resources – Focus Group reviewed and provided feedback on the new Personal and Job Data Insights
Insights – Group met in December to discuss interest in a Senior Leadership Insight Dashboard and more details on possible Elastic Search and PeopleSoft Insight enhancements for PeopleTools 8.62.
Time and Labor – The focus group met in December to discuss the design of the Configurable Time Summary feature and requirements for the Meal Waiver feature. The Direct Reports Fluid Pages feature that was delivered in Image 47 was also reviewed.
Enterprise Learning Management (ELM) – The focus group did not meet in December. We will resume monthly meetings in February – we will be reviewing notifications as well as looking for some feedback on the desire for xapi.
Questionnaire Framework – Team is reviewing enhancements for the Roadmap for 2024. We are looking to understand how customers are currently utilizing the framework in activity guides or having created their own Questionnaire Events using emails or notifications. Please email [email protected] with your current use cases or if you have use cases that are on your roadmap to be deployed.

***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 – On December 29, 2022 the SECURE 2.0 Act was signed into law by President Biden as part of the Consolidate Appropriations Act of 2023 (HR 2617). It contains 92 provisions affecting United States retirement savings plans. Here is a link to the current Position Statement and the Planned Features and Enhancement Page which outlines our current roadmap.
United States – IRS Announces an Administrative Transition Period for Section 603 of the SECURE 2.0 Act
Brazil – Updates for PeopleSoft HCM regarding items 3.1 and 3.2 of Technical Note No. 01/2023 of eSocial Simplificado were made available, the layout of which was published on December 7, 2023.
Singapore – The Provident and Tax (PAT) – IRAS Service has published a new version of IRAS file specifications 15.0, effective from 2024 submissions. Except for limiting the number of records to 800 per file, there are no other changes to be made. However, IRAS has extended the implementation of the new specifications till March 2024.

PeopleSoft Update – Click here for schedule of release dates