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October 2021 PeopleSoft HCM Newsletter

Luke Hodges

WOW, just WOW – We had so many great customers successes this month – very impressive!!!

Upcoming 2021 Webinars/Conferences:

 RV’s Strategy Spotlight– Congratulations to College of Lake County and Endeavor Foundation for being the first PeopleSoft customers to earn Feature Innovator badges for deploying Health & Safety Employee Self Service to track covid vaccination status and testing in PeopleSoft.  This important topic continues to evolve as organizations look to adhere to Federal mandates and their own health and safety protocols for employees returning to work.  Our development team prioritized the delivery of the vaccination tracking feature in mid-September as a patch and in Image 40 which was released last month.

A special announcement to any PeopleSoft customer currently deploying or preparing to deploy Kibana analytic dashboards in their environments.  We are forming a special Kibana workgroup by bringing together experienced Kibana customers and Oracle Kibana subject matter experts.  The workgroup’s goal is to assist early Kibana customers with a successful deployment while gaining insights into where enhancements are needed.  The workgroup will be limited to only the first 5 – 7 customers who request to be included.  You can reach out directly to Tammy Boyles for details.

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

  • Human Resources, Remote Worker, U.S. Federal Focus Groups – We had a joint focus group call where the members of 3 focus groups were shown a demonstration of two newly released HR features in Image 40 – Remote Worker and Vaccination & Test tracking.
  • Health & Safety – The focus group reviewed and provided feedback on new analytics for employee vaccination and test tracking.
  • Recruiting – The focus group discussed faceted search for the My Job Openings component and discussed the HR Gender Identity feature as it relates to Recruiting.
  • Payroll for North America – The focus group provided feedback on the Quick Calculation feature for employees with multiple jobs.
  • Analytics and Visualization – The next focus group meeting will cover the Kibana visualizations for Recruiting Solutions and Payroll.
  • Absence Management – The next focus group meeting will cover the Manager Self Service Team Calendar and solidify the requirements for the Employee Self Service Team Calendar.
  • Time and Labor – The focus group reviewed the Payable Time Kibana Dashboard currently being developed, along with the Manager Self Service Team Calendar.
  • Delegations – The next meeting will cover planned enhancements to the Fluid Delegations framework and discuss the requirements for other potential enhancements.
  • Compensation – The next meeting will focus on gathering requirements for enhancements to give lump sum increases as part of the merit process when an employee is at or above their salary grade maximum.
  • HR Helpdesk – The next focus group meeting is planned for early December to discuss requirements for implementing approvals for creating and updating solutions.
  • ELM – The focus group met to discuss customer ideas and priorities for the next release.  We will not have a meeting in November, but will meet again in December.
  • Performance Management – Development is continuing on the modernization of ePerformance. We met to discuss new ideas as well as answered usability questions.  Our next meeting will be in early December.
  • Position Management – The focus group will meet in November to discuss upcoming position management enhancements and analytics.
  • Accessibility with PeopleSoft HCM – For the next focus group call, members from University of Massachusetts will provide a demonstration to the group of their HTML-based IRS W2 Wage and Statement form.

 ***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/

  • Japan – “The National Tax Agency (NTA)” have published new templates for deduction reports for the year ending 2021. Employees need to submit these reports every year to claim certain deductions.
  • United Kingdom – The Government of UK have announced new levy called “Health and Social Care Levy” effective from 6th April 2022.
  • United Kingdom – HMRC has published the new template for P60 for the year ending 2022. Except for the Tax Year, there is no change from last year’s template.
  • United Kingdom – HMRC has published the new template for P60 for year ending 2022. Except for the Tax Year, there are no changes from last year template.

PeopleSoft Update

  • HCM Image 41 – posting January 17, 2022*
  • ELM Image 22 – posting November 14, 2022*
  • CRM Image 21 – posting November 21, 2022*

*Tentative Dates – Oracle Safe Harbor Statement applies.

PeopleSoft General Update

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