Dayforce Release 61 service pack 3 is coming soon

Benefits

ACA Year-End Auto-fill Process:

Enhancements to properly assign the Offer Coverage and Safe Harbor codes within the month of hire for employees who are hired on the 1st of a month, but not added to an ACA Initial Calendar until the following month. 

ACA Year-end 2021 Filing Enhancement:

Added enhancements to support the changes made to the 2021 ACA Year-end filing requirements by the IRS, which include new offer coverage codes of 1T and 1U. In addition, Dayforce will support Canadian addresses for Legal Entities filing 1094-C form data. Finally, the export will replace '.' with '-' when '.' is entered as an employee's Last Name to prevent the export file from failing.

UK Pension Auto-enroll Initial Import Enhancement:

Updated the initial UK Pension Auto-enrollment import to support the importing of employee's UK Pension AE contribution percentages, First Contribution Date, and Joiner status to be imported.

UK Pension Auto-enroll Ongoing Import Enhancement:

Updated the ongoing UK Pension Auto-enrollment import to support employee Joiner events.

Dependent Verification – Enrollment Setup Enhancement:

Added additional option to set the Document Submittal Period for Dependent Verification to be based on the enrollment period end date.

Compensation

Equity rewards through Dayforce Compensation

• Allow organizations to execute cash-based equity rewards to the eligible employees using Dayforce Compensation.
• Communicate equity rewards and supplementary information to employees through reward letters.
• Easily export the reward information to 3rd party equity management system.

Single Worksheet view for executives and Compensation Administrators

• Reduce the time taken by senior managers and business partners to calibrate and adjust rewards by providing single, consolidated view of the organization during compensation planning process.

Core Technology

Data Management

Addition of a new System/Company-level data management policy to apply retention periods for removal of forms in "draft" status that can cause issues in production.

Learning

Go1 Integration

A tri-party agreement has been developed among Ceridian, Docebo and Go1 to offer an integration directly to Go1's library of Learning content. The library consists of over 70,000 courses with over 100+ content providers.

Payroll – Australia and New Zealand

Superannuation minimum threshold

The Superannuation minimum threshold has been changed from $450 to a configurable amount.  Generally, the Superannuation Guarantee for Australian employees is paid after the employee has earned more than $450 in one month – and this minimum amount of $450 had been hardcoded into Dayforce. However, for the Hospitality Industry General Award (HIGA) and Restaurant Industry Award (RIA) it is paid once $350 is earned in one month.

Payroll – Africa

MAU - Enhance Auto Generated Elections Offcycle Type 

The auto generate off cycle option will now handle terminated employees correctly so that user does not get error message when calculating the pay run. 

MAU - Payment of CSG on EOY Bonus Engine changes

With recent compliance change, Dayforce is now doing separate calculation for CSG on End of Year Bonus. As such CSG is now reported in two separate columns in the monthly tax filing. First column will be the existing CSG amount calculated on basic salary and second column will be CSG calculated on End of Year Bonus.

MAU - Calculate CSG on EOY Bonus on Basic Salary component only

With recent compliance change, Dayforce is now doing separate calculation for CSG on End of Year Bonus. As such we need to ensure that the CSG on EOY Bonus is being calculated on the Basic Salary component only (excluding Overtime and Other Allowances). This logic has been implemented in Dayforce to have two separate system earnings codes namely EOY Bonus Basic and EOY Bonus Non Basic.

MAU - Implement YTD logic for CSG calculation on EOY bonus

When an employee receives EOY Bonus two times in a year from same employer then calculation of the EOY Bonus should be cumulated. Thus, a YTD logic has been implemented in Dayforce to determine the correct chargeable percentage for the CSF calculation on EOY Bonus.

MAU - Portable Gratuity Fund (PRGF)

With the PRGF becoming compulsory as from January 2022, the payroll calculation for PRGF, an exemption grid to exempt employees for PRGF under Tax Definitions screen and the PRGF Tax Filing (Monthly Return) are ready in Dayforce' s 61.3 version.

Onboarding

When 'Administrator' is selected for system-generated Onboarding Alerts, a new Secure Employee View option is now available for GDPR purposes.

Payroll – Europe

IRL - Third Party Payments

Dayforce will construct a payment file for 3rd party payees that the user can export and process directly with their bank. This will make the process for administrators easier and less time consuming.

UK - RTI compliance need for correcting previous FPS files

In line with UK Legislation clients require this functionality to create FPS files for Previous UK Tax Years to report corrections to the HMRC.

IRL - SEPA: File production validation
Feature will validate the data created for the SEPA bank file. This will allow admin to take action prior to submitting the payment file.

IRL - Start of 2022 Tax Year Changes

Compliance updates for the upcoming Tax Year. Dayforce requires this information correctly calculate employee pay statements.

UK - DF Link

Additional fields added to DF Link Payroll Data Export to support the production of UK Pension files for issuing to Pension Providers.

UK - Additional Bank Holiday 2022

Additional Bank holiday for UK / IRL for Queens Platinum Jubilee.

Payroll – North America

Explanation earning statement

Employee Profile - To provide the HR/Payroll admin the ability to view earning statement explanations for an employee, the explanation feature has been added to the earning statement feature in the HR employee profile.

Background Image - To provide the client admin the ability to display an alternate background images to their employees on the earning statement explanation, a new explanation statement background image type has been added to Dayforce along with the ability to select which image they would like to display per country.

Lock WFM from Payroll

To reduce the need of the Payroll Admin having to navigate away from the Payroll module in order to relock timesheets for a pay period, the ability to Lock WFM from the Process Jobs menu in Payroll is now available.

Payroll Elections - Filter

To improve the experience of the HR/Payroll admin while viewing payroll elections for an employee, the ability to filter the list of elections is now available.

API - Pay Run Status w/ Rejection Reason

To provide a connected pay in country provider (ICP) partner the ability to confirm the current status of a pay run and rejection reason details when applicable, a new pay run status GET API is now available.

US - Reciprocal or Courtesy Wage Reporting - PA, IL, WI 

Added courtesy, reciprocal, and non-reciprocal wage types to Payroll > Pay Run Management in the Adjustments sub-tab for Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin residents who work in another state that has a reciprocal or courtesy agreement. You can adjust the limited taxable wage field for non-resident-state wage types for residents of these states so that you can properly report wages on the Form W-2. 

US - Year End Tax Form Updates
Updated Employee Self-Service to ensure that the current year end tax form instructions provided by the IRS are available

CAN - Remove access to MB HE Levy Deferral [2021]

In early 2021, we re-activated the 'Enable Tax Payment Deferral' feature on the MB HE Levy Tax Authority tax setting. The time period for this deferral is over, and we are returning the application to it's original state to maintain compliance.

CAN - ESS and Paygroup Tax Slip Print Settings

To provide clarity to Canadian employees of the current method in which they will receive their yearend tax slips, and improve the process of choosing between paper or online only receipt when their pay group is configured to allow employee level overrides, updates have been made to the year end form delivery option of the Profile > Personal > About Me section of web self-service. 

CAN - Overflow T4 and Releve 1 when Other Information Box size limits are exceeded

The T4 and RL1 will automatically overflow to additional forms with the 'Other Information' box values exceed their prescribed character limits.

CAN - 2021 Canadian Tax Slip Update
Dayforce has been updated with the 2021 Tax Form images provided by CRA and MRQ to ensure the correct Canadian tax form layout is being used

CAN - Update TD1 Amounts
Federal and Provincial Basic Claim TD1 amounts have been updated to the 2022 values effective for the first pay of the new tax year.

CAN - Update 2022 RRSP Deduction Limits
The RRSP deduction limits for Canada have been updates to respect the Government defined yearly limits for the new tax year.

CAN - Update 2022 Workers Comp Limits
The worker comp limits for Canada have been updated so the the correct WCB limits are available in Dayforce for the new tax year.

CAN - Update 2022 MB HE Levy Rates and Thresholds
The Manitoba Health and Education Levy 2022 rates and thresholds have been updated for the new tax year.

Platform

Header Overhaul - Avatar

For a personalized user experience, the profile icon in the global header is being replaced with the Avatar. The Avatar would fall back on the initials of the Username when the User's profile picture is unavailable.

Recruiting

HireRight Background Screening Configuration Enhancements

Configuring HireRight background screening is now available from the External Integrations screen under System Admin.  For existing customers using HireRight as their background screening provider there is no impact as the integration set up is migrated over with the release.  New customers setting up HireRight as their background screening vendor will now do this from the External Integrations screen. 

Candidate Status Mapping – Completion State Tracking Enhancements

Candidate status mapping enhanced to allow for assigning completion states to actions assigned to a status.  This will add additional control for progressing candidates to the next status only when a defined completion state on an action is completed.

Reporting

People Role Security Configuration in V2 Reports

People Role Security introduces another level of security over what data is displayed in the People feature and on reports. It controls whether a role is restricted from seeing data for other roles.

WFM

Compliance:

A new pay rule called Pay Rate Rounding Rule allows users to configure the decimal rounding precision and method for each segment in the Pay Policy. We are also introducing a new Background Job called Update Base Rate from Primary Work Assignment Rate which automatically maintains an employee's Base Rate to that employee's Primary work assignment rate or Rate Level. Further, the Schedule Cost feature has been enhanced to calculate schedule cost using Actual data for past schedules and schedule data for future schedules.

People Role Security

Enhanced People Role Security to hide Pay Information on timesheet. Once configured it controls whether a role is restricted from seeing pay information for other roles.

Period Review

Now Managers can review Employee Authorization on Period Review along with Pay Summary, Exceptions on timesheets to complete the review process.

Projects API

Delivered set of APIs for Projects Feature that will allow users to Request, Create or Update Project information Real Time.

Vacation Bidding

Various UI and UX Enhancement

• Administrator can now limit number of vacation bidding requests that an employee can submit during a session. 
• Bidding Dashboard now displays the Pay Code linked to the round
• Bidding Dashboard now displays employee's bidding slot for sequential bidding sessions
• Bidding Dashboard now displays actual balance amount linked to the pay code of each employee.
• Bidding Dashboard calendar now displays Pay Holidays of the employee when viewing calendar at employee level.

Schedule Acceptance

• Ability to accept a schedule within the ESS calendar after post
• Brief understanding of Schedule Acceptance released to AUS and next features for global