Upcoming Major 2018 Conferences:   Customer Corner - I want to highlight the great accomplishments our HR Focus Group Customers have done in May J.  If your organization has done something great (upgraded, deployed fluid/new functionality) please let me know so you can get your well-deserved recognition.   Focus Group Updates:  Thank you to all the customers who volunteered to participate in the focus group.  If you are interested - Click this link for list of HCM Focus Groups 
  • Global HR – The team is working on the online version of the sensitive/personal fields identification feature.  We currently offer a spreadsheet version.
  • Company Directory -  On the last focus group call, we demonstrated some planned enhancements such as displaying vacant positions, position title displaying, and export functionality for feedback from customers.
  • Onboarding - Work continues with off-boarding.  We reviewed high level designs this month with the focus group and we will continue to refine them over the coming weeks.
  • ePerformance – The enhanced notifications feature allowing for peers, reviewers, and employees to be auto-notified when due dates are approaching will be reviewed by the focus group.  We are also looking for feedback from customer who would like mobile capabilities in ePerformance.
  • Employee Snapshot – Under development is a new ELM (Learning) tile integration for the Employee Snapshot page.
  • Profile Management – No update at this time.  Our next meeting is scheduled for August.
  • HR Help Desk – The group has been reviewing two features in particular:  The attachments feature on Fluid Self-service and the Fluid Case Triage dashboard for Administrators.  The Fluid Case Triage dashboard will provide a complete fluid experience for HR HelpDesk agents to efficiently prioritize and manage their assigned cases.
***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/
  • ALL Countries - Data Privacy Update – new features delivered in image 26 - Acknowledgement Framework and Sensitive Data Masking
  • Spain – Social Security has published RED Bulletin 01 and 02 for 2018. They include, among others, new requirements to communicate part time employees with concentrate schedule
  • France - The French Government set up an Agirc-Arrco regime, no longer including categorical references, incorporating the rights and obligations of AGIRC and ARRCO, which revolves around two tranches of contributions
  • China - Changes to 2018 social insurance for Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin regions have been announced and the solution delivery timeline for these changes has been updated in our position statement
  • U.S.A –Oregon H.B. 2017 (enacted in October 2017) established a new Oregon Statewide Transit Tax, which employers are required to deduct from wages beginning July 1, 2018
  • U.S.A - Patches are now available for state withholding changes for Idaho and New Mexico
  • Australia - Following the budget announcement by the Government of Western Australia, the Department of Finance published Amendments to The Pay-roll Tax Act 2002 and Pay-roll Tax Assessment Act 2002 establishing a tiered payroll tax scale
  PeopleSoft Update
  • HCM  Image #27/Tax Update 18-C – posting July 13, 2018 - tentative dates
  • ELM Image 18 – posting September 14, 2018 - tentative dates
  • CRM Image 16 – posting October 26, 2018 - tentative dates
  PeopleSoft General Update:
  • Now showing in the Oracle Learning Library, the PeopleSoft Spotlight Series: Developing Fluid Applications PeopleSoft Spotlight Series: Developing Fluid Applications video. This video covers the following: Fluid User Interface Overview, Understanding Fluid Application Development, Creating Fluid Pages, Creating and Registering Fluid Components, Touching Up Fluid Applications & Additional Resources
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