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Architecture

Core

• Introduced the infrastructure for event-driven Architecture (internal event stream)
• Modified the redirect process for MyPath to default to English (or French) when content is not available for the user's locale
• Enhanced Admin Portal Year End capabilities

Data Management

• Introduction of the Data Management Center > Policy Association UI
• Person Data Management notification enhancements
• Addition of system and company-level data management policies to apply retention periods to import tables

Security

• Localization capabilities for Dayforce Multifactor Authentication
• Modified subject line and message body for the user-initiated password reset confirmation notification

Benefits

Benefits Intelligence

As a Benefit Admin, I want to understand which plans I can expect BDS to return as the highest value plan for each tier an employee may choose during an enrollment, so that I can forecast and possibly update future enrollment distribution, without manually evaluating this information.

Benefit Setup > Plans and Options – Round Coverage Amount after age reduction is applied on Life & Disability options.

With this feature, Benefit Administrators can now choose to round Coverage Amounts after age reduction is applied on Life & Disability plan options. Prior to this enhancement, any rounding rule defined within the Coverage Amount expression was always applied to the employee's coverage amount prior to age reduction begin applied. This caused incorrect Coverage Amount values for employees. This feature will provide more flexibility in defining how and when rounding needs to be applied to Coverage Amount calculations when age reduction is applied.

Benefit Plan Setup: Define age reduction based on the spouse's age

As a Benefit admin, I need to be able to define age reduction rules for a Life and Disability plan option based on the spouse's age, so that the Coverage amount is properly reduced, without the need to manually calculate the spouses age reduction on the employee's election.

New Employee UK Pension Worker Category and Member Status

A new "No Employer Duty" Worker Category and Member Status has been added to the Employee UK Pension UI. This will provide Pension Administrators with the ability to indicate if there is no Employer Duty required to assess an employee that is paid, but is not going to qualify for UK Pension Auto-enrollment. This may include contracted employees or employee's working outside of the UK.

Compensation

Copy compensation cycle

Compensation administrators can now create new compensation cycles by copying an existing cycle without having to enter all the different configurations from the beginning.

Report on employee promotions in a compensation cycles

Employee promotions data from worksheets in a compensation cycle is now available in report topics. Report can include current and new position titles, current and new compa-ratio, range penetration and location for old and new positions.

Report on worksheet status in a compensation cycle

Compensation reports can now include worksheet status including the approver name if the worksheet is pending approval. It also allows the administrators to report on a unpublished compensation cycle so that admin can review the worksheet set up in a compensation cycle before publishing the cycles.

Generate reward letters in PDF format

Managers can now generate reward letters in a pdf format without requiring to use the browser print function and save the reward letter as a pdf document. Managers can distribute the saved document to employees or print the document.

Quick search of manager (worksheet) 

Admins and senior managers can now quickly locate a manager's worksheet from the hierarchy of worksheets within the org tab of a published cycle. This will allow the managers and admins to locate and navigate to the worksheet without having to manually drill down the entire hierarchy of the org tree in a compensation cycle.

Flag employees with rewards excluded in posting

Managers can now easily identify the employees whose bonus or salary changes were excluded by admin during the posting process. Admin may have excluded some employees as were terminated/inactive or on leave of absence during the compensation cycle process. This will prevent managers from accidentally generating reward letters for these employees.

Accurate calculation of time in position

The time in position calculation will not consider when employee changes location of their work assignment. The time in position metric displayed in worksheets is calculated based on the tenure of the employee in the current primary work assignment.

Dayforce Tax Engine

New Run/Filter Options for the Tax Calculation Details (TCD) Report

Payroll Administrators now have some run/filter options for the Tax Calculation Details (TCD) report to assist in focusing the report on the taxes or garnishments that are being researched or triaged. Using the filters will reduce the size of the report and make it easier to find the tax or garnishment needed. The default setting is to run for all taxes and garnishments.

Notes functionality is now available on the garnishment screen

The Notes functionality is now available on the garnishment screen. This functionality allows the user to add detailed comments as well as attachments (using the Documents feature) to employee’s garnishment screen.

Engagement

Enhanced Comment Review process 

Ability to flag comments 'Reviewed' and 'Hide from managers' more efficiently directly form grid.

Human Resources

Mass Manager assignment

To enable administrators quickly process direct manager changes, we have added support for direct manager updates through the Edit feature in People.

Time in position improvement

Time in position will now include time where an employee changes locations but works in the same position. Previously time in position would reset when the employee changed location.

Automate PPACA override date upon rehire

Auto-population of the PPACA Override Date field when an employee is terminated and rehired within an eligible period based on compliance.

Check Work Rights integration

Integration with Check Work Rights to verify that Employees and Applicants have the right to work in Australia.

Mobile

Timesheet feature revamp

The iOS and Android Timesheet features have undergone a visual and functional overhaul to modernize the look and feel of the feature while enhancing the efficiency, accessibility, and overall user experience. Now, Timesheet users will be able to quickly add comments while entering pay adjustments, easily view all time entries across an entire pay period, and save new data while maintaining a clear view of added or modified time entries.

Onboarding

Accurate approval status of forms within a Guided Process

Forms within a guided process will display the accurate status if they are rejected within the workflow approval, and if the workflow includes the 'resubmit' node, the employee will have the ability to resubmit the form.

Optional forms in a Guided Process

Customers will have the option to designate forms within a Guided Process as required or optional and reflect this in the Count towards Onboarding Progress.

Payroll – Europe

UK – Pensionable Pay balances

Now the ability to view Pensionable Pay Balances both on the Pay Run Management screens and also via a report so that Admins can quickly check the balance for each employee or for all employees overall.

UK – Pension contributions on Parental Leave

New functionality is now available in Dayforce that will calculate pension contributions for employees on parental leave.

UK – Pension cap

Admins have the ability to enter a custom pension cap limit so that they can see if an amount is entered above the limit.

UK – Irregular payments flag

New field added to Tax Definitions screen for UK to allow employees to be flagged to HMRC via FPS if they are receiving irregular payments.

UK – Occupational payment for Parental Bereavement Pay

Dayforce can now calculate the Occupational Payment for Parental Bereavement Pay so that Admins are not having to do this manually.

UK – Pension Auto Enrollment schemes

Admins can now set up both Auto Enrollment and non Auto Enrollment schemes using the same earnings grouping so that there is consistency across the setup without having to duplicate setup steps.

IRL – Gross up functionality for Ireland payroll

Dayforce now calculates the gross up amount automatically so that administrators no longer have to do this manually for Ireland payroll.

Payroll – North America

Global Payroll Change Reporting

Payroll Changes Report will make it easier for Admins to audit their payroll data for a particular pay run. This version of change reporting will include changes to payroll elections (all countries), direct deposit (all countries), and tax fields (US, CAN, UK and IRL).

New AdHoc Reporting Topic

A new reporting topic has been added containing Payroll Register data in periodic detail so that Admins can create their own period by period history report.

Pay Group Security for year-end

Admins will have the ability to apply pay group access security to the year-end feature so that users will only see the information that they have the authority to access.

Payroll election notes

The Notes functionality has been added to the Payroll Elections screen. Administrators can now capture notes and support documentation associated with an employee's payroll election information.

Payroll import enhancements

The following enhancements have been made to the payroll import tool:

• Payroll elections along with a new .csv format are now available
• Additional security grouping functionality so Admins can configure which users can see payroll import details based on their assigned grouping
• Additional notifications at the grouping level include status changes, new import, expired transactions, and new manual entry

Third Party Payee Category

To reduce the selection of non-applicable system payee categories while configuring Third Party Payees, Earnings and Deductions, the Payee Category field selection list has been refined to offer options based on the country defined.

CAN – RRSP deduction order

A change in the order of deductions taken which will move the RRSP up in the order of deductions taken, and down in the order of deductions reduced when there is a shortage of cash earnings to cover the deductions being taken.

CAN – Year-end process for early filers

This feature provides Admins the ability to send tax forms to the Government mid-year for Legal Entities that have been sold or are going out of business.

Performance Management

Team Reviews – Employee name filter respects performance security

Managers will now be able to view only the employees they have the visibility access to within the 'employee' filter under the Team Reviews screen.

Add default dates to the filter for the conversations slide out when opened from the review form

Conversations, when opened from the review from will now be filtered automatically to show only the comments made during the review period.

Reporting

Stop a long running report 

Report Administrators will now have ability to stop long running reports themselves without having to call support to stop the reports to free up the system resources.

Schedule a pivot table report

Report Writers will now have ability to schedule pivot table reports.

Workforce Management

Employee Pay Summary API

Dayforce provides an API feature to retrieve employee pay summaries for third party application’s pay integration with Dayforce in additional to using flat file import.

API supports Role based Access Authorization and provide access control at field levels, with date range filter option of 31 days or under and supports the “GET” function for third party application integration.

Ability to view Weekly Rates: Administrators can now easily view the earnings rate of employees such as the Regular rate, the Overtime rate and the Tipped rate. The rates are calculated on a weekly basis in WFM and can be viewed through a report. Employers also have the option to add the rates to the employee’s earnings statement.

Schedule Change Rules now includes Grace Period: Legislation in some states allow employers a certain grace period to make adjustments and Dayforce can now support this where administrators can now make changes to posted schedules without incurring a premium, if the changes were made within the grace period.

Guarantee enhancements: Administrators can now ensure employees receive their guarantee pay in the absence of punched time. For example, if an employee is asked to dial in or work remotely on his day off and has not been able to record his time, any guarantee pay for such work can be paid in the absence of punched time.