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ORACLE E-BUSINESS SUITE
RELEASE CONTENT DOCUMENT
Human Capital Management
Release 12.2 (inclusive of 12.0.2 – 12.1 HRMS RUP6)

Prepared by EBS Pr oduct Management & Str ategy

Last Updated:

August 2, 2013

Version:

1.0

Copyright © 2013 Oracle Corporation
All Rights Reserved

Table of Contents

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Disclaimer

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Introduction

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2.1.

Purpose of Document

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New and Changed F eatures in Human Capital Management

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3.1.

Or acle Advanced Benefits

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3.1.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)
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3.1.1.1.
Reopen Life Events Process
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3.1.1.2.
Open Enrollment Window Modification
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3.1.1.3.
Tracking Ineligible to Ineligible Row Creation
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3.1.1.4.
Additional Input Parameters for Fast Formulas
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3.1.2. Release 12.1.1
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3.1.2.1.
Enforce Minimum Coverage for Life Events with No Electable Choices
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3.1.2.2.
Restrict Display of Primary Care Provider
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3.1.2.3.
Enhanced Individual Contribution Distribution
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3.1.3. Release 12.1.2
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3.1.3.1.
Use Default Enrollment to Reinstate Backed Out Intervening Events
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3.1.3.2.
Use a New System Profile to Carry Forward Certifications for Life Events without a Configured Coverage
Restriction 5
3.1.3.3.
Recalculate Imputed Income When Coverage Amount Changes Upon Receipt of Certification.
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3.1.3.4.
Suppress HIPAA if Participant Gains Electability in Alternate Plan Type
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3.1.4. Release 12.1.3
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3.1.4.1.
User Defined Criteria for Dependent Eligibility
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3.1.5. Release 12.1 HRMS RUP5
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3.1.5.1.
View Rate History in Self Service
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3.1.5.2.
Close Enrollment in Self Service
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3.1.5.3.
Reopen Reinstated Enrollment
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3.1.5.4.
Deactivate Communication Type
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3.1.5.5.
Eligibility for Person Changes and Communication Types
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3.1.5.6.
All Ineligible Flag for Compensation Objects
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3.1.5.7.
Use Person Selection rule for Extract Process
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3.1.5.8.
Delete Unrestricted Enrollment
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Enhanced Life Event Summary Report
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3.1.6.2.
Trigger Life Events from Person and Assignment Information Types
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3.1.6.3.
Control Ability to Designate Participant as Beneficiary
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Or acle Compensation Wor kbench

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3.3.1. Release 12.0.2 (RUP2)
3.3.1.1.
View All Compensation Detail Reports without Changing Responsibilities
3.3.1.2.
Provide Responsibility-Based Plan Access to Administrators

3.3.

Oracle Approvals Management
3.2.1.1.
View Approval History and Approvers
3.2.2. Release 12.1.1
3.2.2.1.
Approval Deviations Report

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3.3.1.3.
Reduce Post Processing Time between Multiple Business Organizations
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3.3.1.4.
Perform Dynamic Calculations in Multiple Columns
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3.3.2. Release 12.1.1
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3.3.2.1.
Anniversary Date Based Awards
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3.3.2.2.
Print Total Compensation Statements for Groups of Employees
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3.3.2.3.
Display the Worksheet Manager in the Switch To Manager Search Page
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3.3.2.4.
New Salary Proposal to be Explicitly Approved
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3.3.2.5.
Update ‘Percentage of Eligible Salary’ in Employee Administration
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3.3.2.6.
View Performance Appraisal Details in Compensation Workbench
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3.3.3. Release 12.1.2
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3.3.3.1.
Streamline the Promotions and Allocations Process with Enhanced Compensation Workbench Spreadsheet
Download/Upload Features
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3.3.3.2.
Display Market Salary Survey Data in Compensation Workbench
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3.3.4. Release 12.1.3
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3.3.4.1.
Performance and Promotion History Popup in Worksheet
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3.3.4.2.
Post Zero Salary Increases
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3.3.4.3.
Control Period for Viewing Appraisals in Compensation Allocation Worksheet
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3.3.4.4.
Refresh Plan, Employee and Summary Data from Compensation Workbench Home Page
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3.3.4.5.
Ensure Employee’s New Salary is within Grade Range
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Proposed Grade Range, Proposed Grade Midpoint and Proposed Comparatio now Available for
Spreadsheet Download
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Run the Back-out Compensation Workbench Life Events Process for Single Person
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Optionally Hide In Progress Salary Increases in Employee History
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3.3.5.4.
Download Data Using Web ADI
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Email Employee Compensation Statements
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3.3.6.2.
Email Total Compensation Statements
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3.3.6.3.
Back out Compensation Workbench Postprocess
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3.4.1. Release 12.1.1
3.4.1.1.
Configurator for Person/Assignment Spreadsheet Loader

3.5.

Or acle HCM Configur ation Wor kbench

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Or acle Human Resour ces (Cor e HR)

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3.5.1. Release 12.1.1
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3.5.1.1.
Knowledge Integration with ENWISEN
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3.5.1.2.
HR Help Desk
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3.5.1.3.
Access to Ex-Employee and Future-Dated Employee Records in User Based and Dynamic Security 15
3.5.1.4.
Multi-Tenancy for Business Process Outsourcing vendors
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3.5.2. Release 12.1.2
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3.5.2.1.
Use Search Criteria to Query Records in the People Window
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3.5.2.2.
Ability to change the Final Process Date when it is set same as the Last Standard Process Date
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3.5.3. Release 12.1.3
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3.5.3.1.
Enhanced Document of Records
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3.5.3.2.
Ability to Restrict Negative Balance in Absence
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3.5.3.3.
Additional Parameters in BG_ABSENCE_DURATION Fast Formula
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3.5.3.4.
Ability to use Dynamic Approvals in Checklist
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3.5.3.5.
Ability to view Criteria Set associated to Grade Step
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Approvals in Global Deployment
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3.5.5. Release 12.2.2
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3.5.5.1.
Workflow Synchronization
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3.5.5.2.
Update Records with Future Person Changes
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3.6.

Oracle HRMS (Australia)

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3.6.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)
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3.6.1.1.
Nominate Employee Termination Payments (ETP) as Transitional or Non-Transitional Life Benefit
Payments 17
3.6.1.2.
Comply with Statutory Updates for EOY 2007
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3.6.1.3.
Override the Eligibility Set on the Element to Pay the Long Service Leave Amount
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3.6.2.1.
Multiple ETP Payment Summary
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3.6.3. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5)
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3.6.3.1.
Pay Multiple Employment Termination Payments (ETP) and Generate Separate ETP Payment Summaries
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3.6.3.2.
Display Multiple ETP’s on Termination Report
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3.6.3.3.
Use the Changed ETP Payment Summary Layout 2007
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3.6.3.4.
Report Employee’s Tax File Number (TFN) to Super Fund
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3.6.3.5.
Calculate Extra Withholding Amounts for Advance Payments
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3.6.3.6.
Deduct Retro Pretax Amounts from Retro Earnings
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Calculate Payroll Using the Updated Payroll Tax Rates
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3.6.4.2.
Report Allowances Using Balance Attributes
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3.6.5. Release 12.1.2
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3.6.5.1.
Rehire Before Final Process Date
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3.6.6. Release 12.1.3
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3.6.6.1.
Enable Retro Overlap for Australia
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AU local address style and upgrade
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3.6.7.2.
AU Year End Enhancements
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3.6.7.3.
AU Payroll Reconciliation Summary report in XL output
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AU Multiple Payment Summary Amendment
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3.8.

Oracle HRMS (Belgium)

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3.7.1.1.
Enter NI for Employees Whose Nationality is Not Belgian or Country of Birth is Not Belgium

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Oracle HRMS (Canada)

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Comply with Canadian Cheque Specification Changes
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3.8.2. Release 12.1.2
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3.8.2.1.
Use Retro Overlap Enabled for Canada Payroll
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3.8.3.1.
Canadian Cheque Writer (XML), Canadian Deposit Advice (XML) and Canadian Third Party Cheque
Writer (XML)
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3.8.3.2.
Payroll Exception Report
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Oracle HRMS (Denmark)

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3.10.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)
3.10.1.1.
Record Maternity/Adoption Absences
3.10.1.2.
Select Holiday Accrual during Maternity/Adoption Leave
3.10.1.3.
Record and Use the Public Holiday Accrual and Payment Rates
3.10.1.4.
Process Multiple Pension Payments for Employees Based on 2006 Legislative Changes
3.10.1.5.
Use the Notional Pay Classification for Deduction Elements Not Payable to the Employee
3.10.1.6.
Use the Enhanced Absence Maternity Element to Process Part Time Maternity Absences
3.10.1.7.
Use the Modified Company Car Benefits in Kind functionality
3.10.1.8.
Create Lunar Period Payrolls

3.10.

Oracle HRMS (China)
3.9.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)
3.9.1.1.
Specify Tax and Social Insurance Contribution Area Codes Using a Maximum of 3 Characters
3.9.2. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5)
3.9.2.1.
Count the Year of Service for Calculating Severance Payments
3.9.2.2.
Display Employee Numbers Greater Than Five Characters Using Direct Deposit
3.9.2.3.
Represent Tax Areas and Social Insurance Contribution Area Codes Using a Maximum of Three
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Use New Tax Exempt Amount to Meet Statutory Requirements
3.9.2.5.
Calculate the Average Monthly Working Days Using New Value
3.9.3.1.
Make Pre-Tax Non-Statutory Deductions Prior to IIT Calculations
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CN PHF/SI Retro Changes

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Print Batch Payslips
3.10.1.10. Process Payments for Employees Based on 2007 Legislative Changes
3.10.1.11. Classify the Employees as Salaried/Hourly to Process Payrolls
3.10.1.12. Use the Balance Initialization Process
3.10.1.13. Use RetroPay Functionality to Pay Backdated Amounts to Employees
3.10.1.14. Override the use of Normal Periodic Deduction Value in Tax Calculation
3.10.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4)
3.10.2.1.
Support the Payment Electronic File Format Changes
3.10.3.1.
Use Holiday Pay Changes
3.10.3.2.
Use Updated Danish Tax Card Upload Process
3.10.3.3.
Comply with Statutory Changes for 2009
3.10.4. Release 12.1.2
3.10.4.1.
Use Balance Reporting Architecture
3.10.4.2.
Prevent Loss of Latest Balances
3.10.4.3.
View Magtape Output Window
3.10.4.4.
View Absence Statistics Report
3.10.4.5.
View Additional Labor Cost Report
3.10.5.1.
E- Holiday Card

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Oracle HRMS (Finland)

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3.11.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)
3.11.1.1.
Use the New Pension Insurance Type to Generate Pension Payments and Reports
3.11.1.2.
Generate the Statutory Payroll Reports
3.11.1.3.
Calculate and Report the Subsidy for Low-paid Employees
3.11.1.4.
Process Payments for Employees Based on 2007 Legislative Changes
3.11.1.5.
Use the Balance Initialization Process
3.11.2.1.
Use EOY0809 Legislative Changes for Payroll Tax Year 2009
3.11.2.2.
Use EOY0809 Legislative Changes for Payroll Tax Year 2008

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Oracle HRMS (France)

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Use New Training Reports

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Oracle HRMS (India)

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3.14.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)
3.14.1.1.
Statutory Change to Exempt Employees from Paying Employee ESI Contribution
3.14.2. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5)
3.14.2.1.
Rehire Employees Before their Final Close Date
3.14.2.2.
Generate and Print Provident Fund Monthly Report and e-files
3.14.2.3.
Comply with Statutory Updates for 2007
3.14.3.1.
Calculate Taxable Part on Fringe Benefit for Super Annuation Fund Payments
3.14.3.2.
Use the latest PF/ESI Wage Ceiling for Disabled Employees
3.14.3.3.
Use the Latest Professional Tax Slab Rates for Karnataka
3.14.4. Release 12.1.1
3.14.4.1.
Labor Welfare Fund Deduction
3.14.4.2.
Discoverer EUL Support for India HRMS Payroll Information
3.14.4.3.
UI to Submit Medical and Leave Travel Claims
3.14.4.4.
Support Tax Year from March to April
3.14.5. Release 12.1.2
3.14.5.1.
India Reconciliation of EFT Payments

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Oracle HRMS (Hong Kong)
3.13.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)
3.13.1.1.
Specify the Format for Your Statement of Earnings
3.13.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4)
3.13.2.1.
Calculate Proportionate Earnings during Changes in a Payroll Period
3.13.3.1.
Rehire before final process date

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3.14.6.1.
Capturing of LIC Policy Number in the Employee Tax Declaration
3.14.6.2.
Voluntary Provident Fund (VPF) details in the Employee Tax Declaration
3.14.6.3.
Enabled Payroll Exception Reporting
3.14.7.1.
Full Support for Digital Signature in Form 16/Form 12B and Other Changes
3.14.7.2.
Full Support for India Public Sector Payroll
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IN Electronic Challan Cum Return (ECR)-2012

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Oracle HRMS (Ireland)

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3.15.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)
3.15.1.1.
Run the Tax Credit Upload Process to Validate Accurate Revenue File Checking
3.15.2. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5)
3.15.2.1.
Comply with Recent Statutory Updates
3.15.3.1.
Use the New IE Cessation Report
3.15.3.2.
Comply With Recent Statutory Updates
3.15.4. Release 12.1.2
3.15.4.1.
Use Cash Management Integration for EFT Payments
3.15.4.2.
Report Payroll Exception
3.15.4.3.
Use Purge Process
3.15.4.4.
Group Action Parameters
3.15.4.5.
3.15.4.6.
View Cost Allocations
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3.15.4.8.
National Employment Survey (NES Report)

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Oracle HRMS (Italy)

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3.16.1.1.
Use the Renamed Family Name Field

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3.17.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)
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3.17.1.1.
Print Employee Number on Published Insurance Premium Exemption and Spouse Special Deduction Form
for Salary Earner
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3.17.1.2.
Calculate and Archive Accident Insurance Information
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3.17.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4)
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3.17.2.1.
Statutory Changes for 2007
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Display Target Year Within Salary Payment Report
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3.17.3.2.
Support for Transfer with Zengin Format
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3.17.4. Release 12.1.2
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3.17.4.1.
Use Salary Payment Report in e-file
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3.17.4.2.
Receive Local Tax Data in e-file
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3.17.4.3.
Use Wage ledger/Payment deduction report
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3.17.4.4.
Rehire employees before final processing date
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3.17.4.5.
Use Workers Register Report
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3.17.4.6.
Use Employee details report
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3.17.5. Release 12.1.3
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3.17.5.1.
Use Separation Certificate
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Use Withholding Income Tax for Termination Income Report
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Oracle HRMS (Kuwait)

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3.18.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)
3.18.1.1.
Produce Report 166 for the PIFSS Based on Revised Rates
3.18.2.1.
Use the Payroll Exception Report
3.18.3. Release 12.1.2
3.18.3.1.
3.18.3.2.
3.18.3.3.

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Oracle HRMS (Korea)

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3.19.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)
3.19.1.1.
Meet the Statutory Updates for the YEA Tax Receipt for 2007
3.19.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4)
3.19.2.1.
Comply with Statutory Changes for 2007
3.19.3. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5)
3.19.3.1.
Comply with the Updated Layout for Year End Adjustment Ledger Report and the RTF Template
3.19.3.2.
Display Non-Taxable Earnings in Non-Statutory and Statutory Separation Pay Tax Receipt
3.19.3.3.
Use the Updated Exemption Rate for Investment Partnership
3.19.3.4.
Calculate the Tax Break Amount Using the New Value
3.19.3.5.
Identify Korean Citizens as Foreigners and be Eligible for Tax Exemptions
3.19.3.6.
Record Donation Receipt Number for Easy Identification
3.19.3.7.
Exclude Double Exemption for Medical Expenses
3.19.3.8.
Comply with the YEA Reclaim Sheet Layout Changes
3.19.3.9.
Comply with the Latest Statutory Changes for 2008
3.19.3.10. Use the Updated Health Insurance and National Pension Premium Rates
3.19.3.11. Calculate Tax Exemptions for Employees With a New Born or Adopted Child
3.19.3.12. Use the Updated Foreign Worker Income Exemption Rates
3.19.3.13. Record Both Summary and Details for Medical Expenses
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Maintain Detailed Donation Information for Dependents
3.19.4.2.
Comply with the Latest Detailed Medical Information Updates
3.19.4.3.
Record Type B Tax Group Information
3.19.4.4.
Comply with the 2008 Layout Updates for KR Year End Adjustment Tax Receipt
3.19.4.5.
Use the Latest Layout for YEA Ledger Report
3.19.4.6.
Comply with the YEA Reclaim Sheet Changes
3.19.4.7.
Comply with Statutory Updates for 2008
3.19.4.8.
Record Additional Children Exemption for Dependents
3.19.4.9.
Display Double Exemption for Medical Expense
3.19.4.10. Display Detailed Donation Information in the e-File
3.19.4.11. Use the Updated Statutory and Non-Statutory Separation Pay E-Files
3.19.5. Release 12.1.3
3.19.5.1.
Rehire before final close for Korea
3.19.6.1.
KR XML Data Extract/Upload (extend legislation coverage)
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KR YEA XML Data Extract

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3.21.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)
3.21.1.1.
Make the Civilian Service Number Optional (Previously the SOFI Number)

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Oracle HRMS (Mexico)
3.20.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)
3.20.1.1.
Manage Social Security Information through Integrated Archiver
3.20.1.2.
Successfully Create and Save GRE Organizations
3.20.1.3.
Implement and Archive Change of GRE for Employees
3.20.1.4.
Specify Names of Over 15 Characters as Timecard Approvers
3.20.1.5.
Specify Legal Employer when Running the DIM Report
3.20.1.6.
Run QuickPay with IDW Elements in Spanish Instances
3.20.1.7.
View IDSE File Content More Easily
3.20.1.8.
Access State Tax Rules DFF without Errors
3.20.1.9.
Use the hr_mx_ex_employee_api.mx_final_process_emp API without Errors
3.20.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4)
3.20.2.1.
North American 2007 Reporting Enhancements and Statutory Updates
3.20.3. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5)
3.20.3.1.
Comply with Employer State Tax Changes
3.20.3.2.
Comply with ISR Tax Changes
3.20.4.1.
Use the ISR Periodic Tax Adjustments
3.20.4.2.
Use the New BI Publisher Report "ISR Subsidy For Emp Paid"

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Use New Dutch First Day Notification Report
3.21.1.3.
Group Multiple Assignments by Employer
3.21.1.4.
Use New Profile Options
3.21.1.5.
Support Refund of ZVW Contributions to Employees
3.21.1.6.
Include Latest Assignment Details in the Dutch ATS Reports
3.21.1.7.
Use Enhanced Life Saving Scheme Features
3.21.1.8.
Use Updated Reports to Support Legislative Changes
3.21.1.9.
Use New Wage Subsidies for Payroll Processing
3.21.1.10. Support for Late Hire Processing in Payroll
3.21.1.11. Use the New Adjustment Component to Carry Forward Earnings
3.21.1.12. Process Tax and SI Balances using AAOP instead of IP High and IP Low Pension Schemes
3.21.1.13. Use the Modified Dutch Annual Tax Statement Report
3.21.1.14. Use New Dutch Element RetroPay Setup Report to Display Retro Setup of User Element
3.21.1.15. Reduce Data Volumes and Improve Performance by Producing Fewer Run Result Values
3.21.1.16. Configure Precision of Maximum Salary Type
3.21.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4)
3.21.2.1.
Year End Report
3.21.3.1.
Use Updated Wage Reports for 2009
3.21.3.2.
Use New Tax Code 950
3.21.3.3.
Use Labor Handicap Discount/Old Age Discount Changes
3.21.3.4.
Use Tax table Changes for 2009
3.21.3.5.
Use Updated Dutch Wage Report
3.21.3.6.
Use ZVW Changes
3.21.3.7.
Use the Updated Addressing Female Employee Field in the Person Window
3.21.4. Release 12.1.2
3.21.4.1.
3.21.4.2.
Use Payroll Exception Report
3.21.4.3.
Group Action Parameter
3.21.4.4.
3.21.4.5.
3.21.5.1.
Labor Cost Arrangement (LCA)
3.21.5.2.
Digital Sickness Reporting

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3.23.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)
3.23.1.1.
Use the Documents of Record Functionality to Store Document Information
3.23.1.2.
Use the Modified NUS-2000 Code for the Employee's Qualification Type
3.23.1.3.
Process Holiday Pay for Your Employees
3.23.1.4.
Process All Absence Categories to Administer Absence Pay Effectively
3.23.1.5.
Generate Sickness Leave and Absence Statistics Report
3.23.1.6.
Calculate the Impact of Reimbursements of Absence and Holiday Pay on Employer Contribution
3.23.1.7.
Use the Self-Service Tax Card Interface to Enter Tax Card Details
3.23.1.8.
Generate Online Payslip
3.23.1.9.
Stay informed with New Payroll Reports
3.23.1.10. Process Payments for Employees Based on 2006 Taxation Changes
3.23.1.11. Process Payments for Employees Based on 2006 Legislative Changes
3.23.1.12. Support Recent Legislative Changes
3.23.1.13. Use Advance Pay to Pay Employees in Advance
3.23.1.14. Use RetroPay Functionality to Pay Backdated Amounts to Employees
3.23.1.15. Print Batch Payslips
3.23.1.16. Reduce Data Volumes and Improve Performance by Producing Fewer Run Result Values

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Oracle HRMS (New Zealand)
3.22.1. Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)
3.22.1.1.
Contribute and Report the KiwiSaver Deductions to Inland Revenue
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Comply with Latest Statutory Updates for October 2008
3.22.2.2.
Use Enhanced Retropay to Calculate Back-dated KiwiSaver Contributions
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3.23.1.19. Improve the Performance of Oracle Payroll Processing
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Comply with Legislative Changes for 2007/2008
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Comply with EOY0708 Legislative Changes effective from 2008

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Employee Identification
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3.25.2.1.
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Display Balance Breakdown
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3.26.1.1.
Use Revised Foreign Workers Levy Rates and New Permit Categories
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Comply with New Regulations of the Central Provident Fund
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Comply with the Latest SDL Updates
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Use the Updated IRASLine Format
3.26.2.3.
Submit the CPF Line Report/Magtape Using the New CPF Submission Number
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Use the Latest Rates for Mosque and Mendaki Fund Contributions
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3.27.1.1.
Generate and Submit Workplace Skills Plan Reports
3.27.2. Release 12.0.4 (RUP4)
3.27.2.1.
UIF Annual Limit
3.27.3. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5)
3.27.3.1.
Comply with Statutory Updates for End of Year (EOY) 2008
3.27.4.1.
Use the Updated Official Interest Rate (effective September 2008)
3.27.4.2.
Use the Updated Official Interest Rate (effective March 2009)
3.27.4.3.
Use Tax Year End 2009 Changes
3.27.4.4.
Use Budget Speech Changes from 01-Mar-2009
3.27.5. Release 12.1.2
3.27.5.1.
3.27.5.2.
Display Balance Breakdown
3.27.5.3.
3.27.5.4.
3.27.5.5.
Use EMP201 Report
3.27.5.6.
Use Net to Gross Functionality
3.27.5.7.
Run the Tax Year End Data Validation Report any time
3.27.6. Release 12.1.3
3.27.6.1.
Payroll Exception Reporting
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3.29.1.1.
Process Holiday Pay for Your Employees
3.29.1.2.
Use the Balance Initialization Process
3.29.1.3.
Process Sickness Pay for Your Employees
3.29.1.4.
Generate Online Payslip
3.29.1.5.
Use the Tax Card User Interface to Enter Tax Card Details
3.29.1.6.
Manage End of Year Changes for 2006
3.29.1.7.
Generate Payroll Reports for Statutory Compliance
3.29.2. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5)
3.29.2.1.
Generate and Submit ALECTA Report
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Print Batch Payslips
3.29.3.1.
Use Updated Tax Tables and Tax Declaration Report
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Use Updated Income Statement Reports and KU Reports (End of Year Changes 2009)

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3.31.1.1.
No Longer Need to Specify the National Identifier When Hiring Employees in SSHR
3.31.1.2.
Calculate Accurate Average Earnings for Employees with Multiple Assignments
3.31.1.3.
Generate Accurate Payroll Calculations Subsequent to Performing a Reverse Payroll Run
3.31.1.4.
Display Accurate Details in the Payroll Summary Report
3.31.1.5.
Accurately Employ Adjustments Against Court Order Elements
3.31.1.6.
Specify Average Earning Amounts for Maternity Pay
3.31.1.7.
Display the Correct Week in the Pay Advice Report
3.31.1.8.
Use the Date Worked Payment Method to Pay Non-Recurring Claims
3.31.2. Release 12.0.5 (RUP5)
3.31.2.1.
Use the New NUVOS Pension Scheme to Comply with Recent Statutory Updates
3.31.2.2.
Use the New Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) to Comply with Statutory Changes
3.31.2.3.
Comply with Statutory Changes to P46 Car EDI
3.31.2.4.
Comply with Statutory Updates to P14 EDI
3.31.2.5.
Comply with Pre-Budget Statutory Updates
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Comply with Start of Year Statutory Updates
3.31.2.7.
Comply with NI Rollup Statutory Updates
3.31.2.8.
Comply with Statutory Updates to In Year Filing Reports
3.31.3.1.
Comply with Recent Statutory Changes
3.31.4. Release 12.1.2
3.31.4.1.
Upgrade Latest Balance Table
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Partial Period Accruals
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3.31.4.4.
3.31.4.5.
3.31.4.6.
3.31.4.7.
Use Field KIT Days
3.31.4.8.
P6/P9 Output
3.31.4.9.
View SOE Balances
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3.31.5.1.
BI Publisher (eText) Reports
3.31.5.2.
Start Of Year (SOY) Future Changes Validation check
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Defaulting PAYE Aggregation for Secondary Assignments

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3.30.2. Release 12.1.2
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School Workforce Census Reporting (Public Sector)
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New Manager SSHR Region to Record Evidence for Sickness Absence
3.31.7.1.
Payroll Groups
3.31.8. Release 12.2
3.31.8.1.
Element Register Report enabled

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Use Ethnic Categories Recognized by Agencies for EEO-1, EEO4, EEO5, and IPEDS Reports
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Obtain VETS-100 Reports Based on the Previous Year
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Statutory Changes to EEO-1 Paper and Magnetic Reports
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Control Resident Wage Accumulation and Tax Calculation
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Use Open Plan Solution Formats for TIAA-CREF Files
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Capture Make-up Amounts for Roth Contributions on W-2s
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Identify Initial and Subsequent Corrections on W-2Cs
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Submit the Florida State Quarterly Wage Listings File in XML Format
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Comply with State of Maryland - W-2 Magnetic Media Updates
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Comply with Social Security Administration Changes
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Comply with JIT and School District Updates
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Correctly Print Multiple Child Support Attachment Numbers and Amounts on Third Party Checks and
Third Party NACHA Output
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Override Garnishment Minimum Wage Rules and Factors to Comply with non-Standard Involuntary
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Create Custom BI Publisher Templates for Payroll
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Use New Retro Overlap Functionality
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Cash Management Integration with US Payroll for EFT (NACHA) Reconciliation
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Select Custom Template When Printing Employee W-2’s
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XML-Based ‘Employer W-2 to be Filed With the State’ Report
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Produce Printable and Customizable Online Payslips
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New XML-Based Third Party Check Writer Process
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Override State Withholding Lines in Self Service
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New Override Check Date for Check Writer (XML) Report
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Employees Can Now Model Their Paychecks Online!
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Employee W-2c Now Available Online
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New XML-Based Employee W-2c PDF Report More Versatile and Robust
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3.33.1.1.
Automatically Enroll New Hires into Compensation Plans Included in their Jobs Offers
3.33.2.1.
Use the Changed Vacancy Status Field When Creating or Updating Vacancies
3.33.2.2.
Reconsider Terminated Applications
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View Annualized Salary Details When Creating or Updating Offers
3.33.2.4.
Warn Managers Or Display an Error Message if an Active Offer Exists During Offer Extension
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View Offer Status and Offer Last Update Date for Applicants
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View Offer Approval History
3.33.2.7.
Search for Closed Offers
3.33.2.8.
Withdraw Offers
3.33.3. Release 12.1.1
3.33.3.1.
Interview Management
3.33.3.2.
Recruitment Communications
3.33.3.3.
Employee Referrals
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Attachments in Vacancy and Offers
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Dashboards for Hiring Manager and Recruiter
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Reconsider Terminated Applications
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Offer Withdrawal
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Create External User Accounts for Candidate Records Created by Managers and Recruiters
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Use RSS Feeds links when searching for Jobs
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Use Hyperlinks in the Notifications to Navigate to iRecruitment Pages
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View Interview iCalendar file (.ics file) Attachments in Notifications
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View Salary Amounts in the Corporate Currency
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View Resume and Documents on iRecruitment pages
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Provide comments while withdrawing job applications or terminating job applications
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Use Document type restriction for file uploads
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View Job Details and Candidate Details in Popup windows on iRecruitment pages
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Candidate Profile
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Find Duplicates
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HR-XML 2.5 Compliance for Job Board Posting
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Salary Basis and/or Proposed Salary fields non-mandatory
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Dated Updates for Application Statuses
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Offer related changes for Employee Applicants
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View Application Details of a Hired Applicant
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Initiate Self Service HR Applicant Hire Process from Offers
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Dynamically populate the Vacancy and Application Status LOV’s in iRecruitment
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Access to internal job site for contingent workers
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Applicant Time Resume
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Administer Assessment in Multiple Languages
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View All Scheduled Interviews
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Upload Offer Letters When Creating or Updating Offers
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View Complete Interview Location Address Details
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Control the Ability of Managers to Apply for Vacancies Created by Subordinate Employees in Their
Supervisor Hierarchy
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Auto Complete Disabled for Certain Fields in iRecruitment
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Enter Key Mapped with Go Button for Specific Fields in iRecruitment
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Avoid Issues When Using DMZ Instance for iRecruitment
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Support for Payroll Archiver
3.35.1.2.
Online Payslip
3.35.1.3.
Rehire before FPD
3.35.1.4.
Direct Deposit
3.35.1.5.
Support for Enhanced Retro Pay
3.35.1.6.
Payroll Exception Report
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3.36.1.1.
Use Employee Work Schedules to Distribute and Encumber Labor Costs
3.36.1.2.
Set Up Clearing Accounts for Multiple Payrolls
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Process Payroll Reversals, Balance Adjustments, and Retroactive Payments More Easily

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Use Parameter Sets to Run Scheduling and Distribution Reports More Easily
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Rollback Create Distribution Lines Process for All Periods by Providing the Highest Time Period Name
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Use New Predefined Salary Cap Rates
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Control the Behavior of the Import Process
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Integration with Award Distribution Functionality in Grants Accounting
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3.37.1.1.
Check Duplicate Contacts for External Learners
3.37.2. Release 12.0.5 (RUP4)
3.37.2.1.
Use Keywords to Search for Courses in OLM
3.37.3. Release 12.1.1
3.37.3.1.
Learners Can View Catalog Attachments
3.37.3.2.
Free Text Question Type
3.37.3.3.
Mandatory Enrollment
3.37.3.4.
Course Evaluation
3.37.3.5.
Reports for Certification, Forums & Chats
3.37.3.6.
Learner Groups
3.37.3.7.
Learner Basic Search Enhancements
3.37.4. Release 12.1.2
3.37.4.1.
Electronic Signature
3.37.4.2.
Administrator Access Control
3.37.4.3.
Enhanced Learning Path Functionality
3.37.4.4.
Automatic calculation of End Date for Learner Competency
3.37.4.5.
New functionality for reducing the number of clicks in OLM Pages
3.37.5. Release 12.1.3
3.37.5.1.
Popup Window on the Administrator Enrollments Page
3.37.5.2.
Popup Window on the Administrator Catalog Page
3.37.6.1.
SCORM 2004 compliance
3.37.6.2.
Enhanced certification functionality
3.37.7.1.
Enhanced Learner access using eligibility profiles
3.37.8.1.
Automatic Certification Subscription
3.37.8.2.
Integration to “Oracle Webcenter content”
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Automatic Update Competence When Manually Setting Certification Status
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Approval Mechanism for Manager Self Service - Assignment Costing
3.39.1.2.
Upgrade of Historical Costing Data to Support Subledger Accounting
3.39.2. Release 12.1.2
3.39.2.1.
Purge Process for Pay events table
3.39.3.1.
Quick-Retro Pay
3.39.3.2.
Self Service Batch Element Entry
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Void Check Process
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Manage Offline Appraisals
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Web ADI Support for Succession Planning Data Update
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Create Appraisals for New Joinees And Transfers-In Whose Employment Start Date Is Later Than the
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View the Status of Scorecards and Appraisals of Workers Who are no Longer Part of Published Plan
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Provide Complete % Value Either More than or Less than 100 for Objectives
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Update Description Details of Objectives Created by Employees
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Add Jobs and Job Competency Requirements During An Appraisal Period
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Mass Cascading of Objectives
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Line of Sight of Objectives
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Display Workforce Performance Management Appraisals in the Appraisals Function
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Reference to Talent Management Replaced with Performance Management
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Support Decimal Values for Fields Using Quantitative Measurement Style While Creating Objectives108
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Display Competency and Objectives Scores on Workflow Notification Page
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Changes to Reject Option in Notifications
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Enhance Capability of HR Administrator Function
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Process for Managing Completed Performance Management Plans
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Use Eligibility Criteria to Define Plan Population
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Use Performance Journal
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Manage Appraisals of Terminated Workers
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Editable Pop-up for Quick Updates to Objectives
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Performance Administrator enhancements
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Use Configurable Print Options to Print Appraisals
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Use New Questionaire Administration Feature
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Use Star Ratings to Rate Performance and Proficiency Levels.
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Allow Transition Initiator to Delete “Pending for Approval” Transactions
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Self-Service Change Pay Rate Functionality
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View Accrual Balances for Employees Across Business Groups
3.41.2.2.
Avoid Errors When Routing Approvals in Oracle SSHR
3.41.3. Release 12.1.1
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Adjusted Service Date
3.41.3.2.
Grade Step/Point Changes
3.41.3.3.
Leave Accrual Information Based on Effective Date
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Secured Access for Workflow Administrators Using Security Profiles
3.41.3.5.
Succession Planning
3.41.4. Release 12.1.1+
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Employee Talent Profile
3.41.5. Release 12.1.2
3.41.5.1.
Hire Employee Applicant into New Assignments
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Rehire Ex-employees
3.41.5.3.
View Oracle Self-Service Attachments in Oracle HRMS
3.41.5.4.
Terminate Secondary Assignments
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Hire Employee Applicants and replace or merge applicant assignment with Primary Assignment
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Reverse Termination
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Voluntary Termination
3.41.6.4.
Transaction Details in FYI Notifications
3.41.6.5.
View Entitlement Balances in Notifications
3.41.6.6.
Restrict Absence Type LOV
3.41.7.1.
Support for Parallel Approvals in SSHR
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Organization Chart
3.41.8.1.
Launch Actions from a Side Navigator in Organization Chart or Talent Profile
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Control the Display of Effective Date, Review, and Confirmation Pages
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Use Quick Termination and Change Hours Processes
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3.43.1.1.
Automatic Days-to-Hours Conversion
3.43.1.2.
Mixed Format Entries
3.43.2.1.
Use the Multi-Threaded Archive and Restore Process
3.43.3. Release 12.1.1
3.43.3.1.
Blank Timecard Rows Retained while Saving Timecard
3.43.3.2.
Define Number of Timesheet Line Rows to Pre-populate
3.43.3.3.
Summarize Regular/Overtime Hours Separately
3.43.3.4.
Supervisor Report to Identify Missing Timesheets
3.43.3.5.
Supervisor List of Timesheets Expected and Status Online
3.43.3.6.
Audit Change Report - Identify Changes Made to Timesheets
3.43.3.7.
Audit Trail on Time Cards
3.43.3.8.
Display Last Person Who Updated Timesheet
3.43.3.9.
Changes in Core HR and OTL to Support Services Procurement
3.43.3.10. Multiple Alias Support in Notification Layout
3.43.3.11. OTL User Interface Enhancements
3.43.3.12. Disabled Text Field Enhancement
3.43.3.13. Enhancement to Preference Eligibility Criteria (Responsibility-based Preference)
3.43.4. Release 12.1.2
3.43.4.1.
OTL Time Card integration with HR Absences
3.43.5. Release 12.1.3
3.43.5.1.
Time Card Retrieval Dashboard

3.43.

Oracle Succession Planning
3.42.1. Release 12.1.1+
3.42.1.1.
Succession Plans
3.42.1.2.
Suitability Matching
3.42.1.3.
Talent Profile Comparison Report
3.42.2. Release 12.1.2
3.42.2.1.
Update Succession Plan Extra Information Type for Workers
3.42.2.2.
Create Succession Plans for Contingent Workers
3.42.2.3.
View Talent Profile of Workers from Succession Planning Page
3.42.2.4.
View Succession Plans of Ex-employees
3.42.2.5.
View Employee Information in Popup Windows
3.42.3. Release 12.1.3
3.42.3.1.
Usability Changes in Succession Planning
3.42.4. Release 12.1.3+
3.42.4.1.
Enhanced Succession Planning
3.42.4.2.
Succession Planning Portals for Talent Managers and HR Professionals
3.42.4.3.
Succession Analytics
3.42.4.4.
View Succession Hierarchy
3.42.4.5.
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Rollback Transfer Time from OTL to BEE process.
3.43.6.2.
Retrieval Dashboard changes
3.43.7.1.
Enhanced Timecard Status Dashboard
3.43.8. Release 12.2
3.43.8.1.
New Projects Layouts for Actual Costing
3.43.8.2.
Attachments in Timecards
3.43.8.3.
Checkbox to Confirm Time Entry Accuracy

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3.44.1.1.
Process Pay for Employees Based on the Title 38 Public Law
3.44.1.2.
Use Multiple Legal Authority Descriptions When Processing AFHR Employees
3.44.2.1.
Comply with Inspector General Pay Reform Implementation
3.44.2.2.
Use the New Regions Available in the Self Service Pages

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Disclaimer
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the specified releases of the Oracle E-Business Suite. This document describes new or
changed functionality only. Existing functionality from prior releases is not described. It
is intended solely to help you assess the business benefits of upgrading to the specified
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planning for the implementation and upgrade of the product features described. It is not a
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Due to the nature of the product architecture, it may not be possible to safely include all
features described in this document without risking significant destabilization of the code.

Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 12.1.and 12.2 Release Content Document

Purpose of Document

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2.

Introduction
2.1.

Purpose of Document
This Release Content Document (RCD) communicates information about new or changed
functionality introduced in Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 12.1 and 12.2, and in
subsequent Release Update Packs (RUPs) and off-cycle patches. For your convenience,
it also includes new or changed functionality introduced in the RUPs for Release 12,
including 12.0.2 through 12.0.7.
The features and enhancements described in this document are grouped by product, and
then by the release in which they first became available, for example, “Release 12.1.1”.
Features released in an off-cycle patch have a special designation – for example, a feature
released after 12.1.1, but before 12.1.2, is designated as “Release 12.1.1+”.


Purpose of Document

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3.

New and Changed
Management
3.1.

Featur es in

Human

Capital

Or acle Advanced Benefits
3.1.1.

Release 12.0.3 (RUP3)
3.1.1.1.

Reopen Life Events Process

This enhancement provides the benefits users the flexibility to reopen a large volume of
life events as a batch. Previously, they had to be manually reopened individually. In
combination with the "OE Window Modification" functionality, users can extend
enrollment windows after reopening the processed events.
3.1.1.2.

Open Enrollment Window Modification

There is now a concurrent process titled "Manage Open Enrollment Window" which
provides the flexibility to modify an existing Open Enrollment Window's Enrollment
Period End Date, Processing End Date, Default Enrollment Date, or Provide a Number of
Days Extension.
3.1.1.3.

Tracking Ineligible to Ineligible Row Creation

When the "Track Ineligible" flag is on, and a participant was initially found ineligible for
the compensation object, this functionality writes a new row for a subsequent life event
(even though the participant remains ineligible). The new ineligibility row has updated
derived factor values for tracking and calculations.
3.1.1.4.

Additional Input Parameters for Fast Formulas

Person_id can now be passed as an input value in Fast Formulas. In the past, Person_id
had to be derived from the Assignment_id.

3.1.2.

Release 12.1.1
3.1.2.1. Enforce Minimum Coverage for Life Events with No Electable Choices
There are situations that occur where due to either data or configuration issues, someone
is found ineligible for something in which they are currently enrolled and end up with no
enrollment. This enhancement deals with the functionality of detecting those cases when
a participant loses coverage and is not allowed to make elections for specific events.
With this enhancement, the application performs the following:
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Identifies if the minimum enrollment for the Plan Type in Program should be
checked for a business group if an event is processed and the person cannot make
elections.

•

Checks if a person lost coverage, when you process an event that does not allow
the person to make elections.

•

Checks if a person still meets the Plan Type in Program minimum limitation
requirements, if the person lost coverage and is still eligible for the Plan Type in
Program that they were enrolled in.


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Generates an error if the requirements are not met so the person does not lose
coverage and the eligibility issues can be resolved.

3.1.2.2. Restrict Display of Primary Care Provider
Currently, the Plan Primary Care Provider (PCP) setup controls the display of primary
care providers. This enhancement enables benefits users to configure, based on life
events, whether the Primary Care Provider page on self-service enrollment should be
displayed. A new field called Show Primary Care Provider is now available on the Life
Event Reasons form. This new feature provides you the ability to accept the PCP
information only during the annual or initial enrollments, and allow the medical carrier to
maintain the PCP information thereafter.
3.1.2.3. Enhanced Individual Contribution Distribution
Individual Compensation Distribution (ICD) module has been enhanced for Managers
and Compensation Administrators. Line managers can now achieve the following in the
enhanced module:
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Can enter multiple input values associated with an element in a compensation
plan. User will have the flexibility to use within ICD, whole or partial list of
defined input values associated with an element. It will be possible to rename
input values for display in self-service. Also, user will be able to override
sequencing and updateability of input values within ICD.

•

Can award multiple compensations of same or different type to an employee
within a single transaction on same or different dates.

•

Can update and delete active and future compensations (e.g. change the amount
dates or delete the award).

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Can indicate a distribution end date for a recurring compensation within the same
transaction it is awarded.

Administrators can do the following actions regarding Individual compensation
distribution plans:
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Can configure element entry flex fields to capture compensation related
information for an employee. For example: Justification for the compensation
can now be configured as a flexfield, captured during the transaction and stored
as part of the employee element entries.

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Can default input values as a fixed value or using a fast formula.

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Can search employees and update or delete awards

•

Can view, update and delete element entries that did not originate in ICD.

•

3.1.3.

Can configure validation on input values based on Value Sets, Data Types,
Minimum, Maximum and Default, Lookups and Fast Formula.

Can configure action items for compensation plans. This will put compensation
on hold for a person, until the action item is provided.

Release 12.1.2
3.1.3.1. Use Default Enrollment to Reinstate Backed Out Intervening Events
Benefits Administrators can now use a new reinstatement code "Reinstate Unless New
Explicit Elections Exist" to reinstate elections made for a backed out event unless explicit
elections have been made within the plan type for an intervening event.



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3.1.3.2. Use a New System Profile to Carry Forward Certifications for Life Events
without a Configured Coverage Restriction
Using the new System Profile, BEN: Carry Forward Certification; Benefit Administrators
can carry forward interim and suspended coverage created due to coverage restrictions
configured for a life event when subsequent life events do not have coverage restrictions.
3.1.3.3. Recalculate Imputed Income When Coverage Amount Changes Upon
Receipt of Certification.
This enhancement enables Benefit Administrators to recalculate the imputed income rate
as of when coverage subject to imputed income becomes unsuspended and changes due
to receipt of certification.
3.1.3.4. Suppress HIPAA if Participant Gains Electability in Alternate Plan Type
There may be multiple plan types within a program that have plans subject to HIPAA.
Persons who continue coverage in plans subject to HIPAA although they are in different
plan types are not required to receive the HIPAA communication. This enhancement
now enables Benefits Administrators to suppress the communication trigger type
Participant Deenrollment – HIPAA if a participant is dropped from coverage in a plan
subject to HIPAA but gains electability to others plans subject to HIPAA within a
different plan type in the same program.

3.1.4.

Release 12.1.3
3.1.4.1. User Defined Cr iter ia for Dependent Eligibility
The current person-related criteria available for dependent eligibility include Disabled,
Marital, Military and Student statuses. User defined criteria available for Participant
profiles allow an expanded choice of criteria including descriptive flexfields. With this
enhancement, benefit administrators will be able to define dependent eligibility based on
an expanded choice of criteria from per_all_people_f such as Tobacco Use, Benefits
Group or descriptive flexfield.

3.1.5.

Release 12.1 HRMS RUP5
3.1.5.1. View Rate History in Self Service
With this enhancement, participants will be able to view all of the rate values associated
with an enrollment result in Self Service. Rates may change over the span of a single
coverage period. Now, participants can view costs over the time they were enrolled in
the compensation object.
This feature is forward-ported to R12.2.2.
3.1.5.2. Close Enrollment in Self Service
Before this enhancement, when a life event is set to close when elections are made, it will
not close when the elections are made in Self Service until the Close Enrollment
concurrent process is run. Now benefit administrators can allow participants to close
such enrollments via self service.
Participants can then make elections and proceed
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3.1.5.3. Reopen Reinstated Enrollment
A benefit administrator can now decide whether reinstated enrollments should be
automatically closed, or whether an enrollment opportunity should be reopened to allow
participants to confirm or update the reinstated results. Before this enhancement, if the
reinstated results needed to be changed, the life event had to be manually reopened.
Now it is possible to allow participants to use self service to make any adjustments to the
backed out enrollment without back office intervention.
3.1.5.4. Deactivate Communication Type
Prior to this extract, users were unable to end a communication type that was no longer
being offered. Now users have the ability to flag a communication type that is no longer
in use to stop it from triggering on a person’s record.
The flag is datetracked and easily viewable. Now the Benefit professional can easily see
when a communication is no longer being provided and also has the ability to reactivate
the communication type if it is needed at a later date.
3.1.5.5. Eligibility for Person Changes and Communication Types
In addition to defining a life event based on a person change, benefit administrators can
attach eligibility profiles so that static data associated with the person can be considered
when determining whether a life event should be detected.
Also, eligibility profiles can be associated with a communication type, adding additional
criteria to the trigger and usage definitions to determine whether the person should be
receiving a communication type. This reduces the unnecessary detection of life events
and communication types.
3.1.5.6. All Ineligible Flag for Compensation Objects
Now when a compensation object is no longer being offered, benefit administrators can
flag the object to be discontinued. When the participation process is run, it will find all
persons ineligible, causing existing enrollees to be de-enrolled and prohibiting any
ability to enroll.
Prior to this, benefit administrators had to create an eligibility profile with artificial
criteria to find all possible participants ineligible. This required the administrator to
continue to monitor and maintain eligibility due to the possibility of a person actually
meeting the artificial profile criteria. The flag is also clearly visible and date tracked
allowing the benefit professional to quickly see whether a compensation object is
currently discontinued.
3.1.5.7. Use Person Selection rule for Extract Process
The feature adds person selection rule as an optional parameter for running a System
Extract. This allows users to collect data for a subset of the original population on an ad
hoc basis without having to modify the selection criteria in the extract definition or create
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3.1.5.8. Delete Unrestricted Enrollment
Once an unrestricted life event (Oracle Standard Benefits) has been detected and started
for a person, there was no process for removing the life event and any associated benefit
enrollment data. If an unrestricted enrollment was made for an original hire date, but
that date needed to be moved to a later date, this could not be done as this would result in
benefit information associate with the person to start prior to their record start date. Now
there is a concurrent process that can be added to a responsibility’s request group which
will allow the user to remove all of the data associated with an Unrestricted enrollment
for a person.

3.1.6.

3.1.6.1. Enhanced Life Event Summar y Repor t
A new module is added to the Life Event Summary Report to provide details on life
events in Detected and Unprocessed status. This gives Benefit Administrators more
information regarding what life events existing during the specified time period and who
may have outstanding life events that have not been processed and may need to be
addressed before later life events, such as Open Enrollment can be processed.
3.1.6.2. Tr igger Life Events fr om Per son and Assignment Infor mation Types
With the release, Benefit Administrators can define Person changes based on the creation
or change to a Person or Assignment Extra Information Type. This provides additional
sources for detecting life events and opening enrollment opportunities..
3.1.6.3. Contr ol Ability to Designate Par ticipant as Beneficiar y
Plan requirements may prohibit participants from designating themselves as beneficiaries.
With this release, the beneficiary designations can be configured to exclude the participant
as a potential plan beneficiary.

3.2.

3.2.1.

3.2.1.1.

View Approval History and Approvers

A new approval history region is now available to view the current approval history for a
transaction and also display the next level of approvers. Additionally, you can integrate
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Release 12.1.1
3.2.2.1. Approval Deviations Report
Oracle Approval Management Engine (AME) is a web application for defining business
rules based on which transactions are approved in Oracle Applications. AME generates a
standard approver list based on the rules set up for transaction types either by the
approvals management administrator or approvals management business analyst. Any
change to the standard approver list is a deviation.
Using the Approvals Deviation Report, you can capture the approval deviations that
occurred in approval of transactions to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act.

3.3.

Or acle Compensation Wor kbench
3.3.1.

3.3.1.1.

View All Compensation Detail Reports without Changing Responsibilities

RUP2 delivers the ability for compensation administrators to view Compensation Detail
Reports based on the HR security profile instead of the manager hierarchy. For example,
administrators can now view all employees of a particular country without having to
access or switch to a senior executive responsibility.
Additional enhancements to the Compensation Detail Report page include:
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Employee information, which was previously displayed in a single table, is now
grouped using tabs.



The plan selection page and the parameters page of the old report have been
replaced by filters that can be hidden in the report page.



A new check box, Do Not Restrict By Hierarchy is added to the filters.



A salary statistics tab will display plans that have salary adjustment. The report
can be downloaded in a spreadsheet format based on filter specifications.

3.3.1.2.

Provide Responsibility-Based Plan Access to Administrators

This enhancement allows organizations to regulate administrator access to plan
information in Compensation Workbench.
In Release 12, administrators have
uncontrolled access to all plans in the Compensation Workbench setup, presenting
potential security and data privacy issues. Now, an administrator can be granted super
administrator privileges, enabling him/her to access new setup pages where he/she can
map the responsibilities of other administrators to the plans that they are allowed to
access. These same setup pages can be used to revoke access, if needed.
This security mechanism is not enabled by default and does not change the default
behavior of Compensation Workbench. If Plan Security is required, super administrators
can enable it from the Compensation Workbench preferences page.
3.3.1.3.

Reduce Post Processing Time between Multiple Business Organizations

To enable more powerful filtering capabilities in the Compensation Workbench Post
Process, a new parameter—Person Selection Rule—has been added to the Post Process
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users can filter the employee population eligible for processing. Multiple organizations
can now be processed in parallel, for example, by using a Person Selection rule defined to
identify certain employees across different organizations.
This new parameter is optional and is available when submitting the Compensation
Workbench Post Process request from the Compensation Workbench Administrator's
home page or as a concurrent request from the Professional User Interface.
3.3.1.4.

Perform Dynamic Calculations in Multiple Columns

This enhancement allows users to define dynamic calculations on the rate columns,
specifically the worksheet amount rates, separately from the custom columns (custom
segments 1 to 20). Additionally, users can define a condition and condition results using
column names, and define custom errors and warnings based on their requirements.
This feature needs to be configured and enabled by the Administrators; therefore
customers who do not wish to use it will not be impacted.

3.3.2.

Release 12.1.1
3.3.2.1. Anniversary Date Based Awards
Currently, Oracle Compensation Workbench allows employee rewards to be paid out on
a single day across the eligible population. This enhancement provides the ability to
reward employees based on an anniversary or variable date. The award effective date
could be based on an employee’s latest hire date, date of last pay increase or promotion,
or any other reference point. You can define your business rules to determine award
effective dates for employees. Reward effective dates can be defaulted into the
Compensation Workbench worksheet where managers may or may not have the ability to
make updates. This allows managers to do up front budgeting and allocate compensation
based on the individual employee’s award effective date.
3.3.2.2. Print Total Compensation Statements for Groups of Employees
Currently, you can print statements for one employee at a time. With this enhancement,
you can print statements for groups of employees at the same time. A new Print
Employee Statements batch process and a new UI to submit this batch process are now
available. The administrator can also generate sample statements before submitting the
final print job.
This enhancement provides an efficient way to print and distribute hard copies of Total
Compensation Statements to employees.
Additionally, enhancements have been made to the selection method for the existing
Generate Employee Statements and Purge Employee Statements batch processes. The
Generate Employee Statements process will evaluate any eligibility profiles defined in
the statement setup in addition to the parameters selected allowing them further filter the
employee population. The administrator now has more flexibility when selecting the
employee population for whom statements are to be generated or purged.
3.3.2.3. Display the Worksheet Manager in the Switch To Manager Search Page
Currently, the search results on the Switch To Manager page only provide the employee’s
supervisor. When an employee has been reassigned from one manager's compensation
worksheet to another, the worksheet manager becomes different from their supervisor
thus making it difficult for managers to search and identify the employee’s actual
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With this release, managers and administrators now see the employee’s worksheet
manager in addition to their supervisor in the Switch To Manager search results within
the compensation worksheet thus making it easier to identify the correct worksheet
manager to whom they need to switch.
3.3.2.4. New Salary Proposal to be Explicitly Approved
Currently, when a new salary proposal is created for a new hire in salary administration it
is automatically approved by default even if the user does not have the correct approval.
This enhancement now offers the ability to explicitly control approvals for new salary
proposals.
The enhancement ensures that the new salary proposal approval is SOX-compliant.
3.3.2.5. Update ‘Percentage of Eligible Salary’ in Employee Administration
Compensation Administrators are now able to update or override an employee’s
percentage of eligible salary in Employee Administration. Previously this could only be
updated via the allocation worksheet.
3.3.2.6. View Performance Appraisal Details in Compensation Workbench
Customers who use Oracle’s EBS Performance Management can now view an
employee’s latest completed appraisal directly from the Oracle Compensation
Workbench (CWB) allocation worksheet. This means managers can review their
employees’ latest completed appraisals from within CWB without having to switch
responsibilities to Performance Management.
Previously managers were only able to view their employee’s final rating when
rewarding their employees. Being able to view employee performance appraisal details
directly from within the CWB worksheet will allow managers to make more informed
decisions when rewarding their employees. Overall this feature offers a more tightly
integrated Talent Management solution.

3.3.3.

Release 12.1.2
3.3.3.1. Streamline the Promotions and Allocations Process with Enhanced
Compensation Workbench Spreadsheet Download/Upload Features
Compensation administrators and/or managers can now use the following new features
that enhance the Compensation Workbench (CWB) spreadsheet download and upload
mechanism and provides the ability to:
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Personalize the CWB spreadsheet download column prompts (labels) for each
plan. Especially useful for Service providers who host different organizations on a
single software instance, compensation administrators can utilize this feature to
provide unique labels for each organization's plans to meet the different business
requirements.

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Use the spreadsheet capabilities to update employee promotion data and upload
the changes back to Compensation Workbench. Compensation Managers with
large populations of employees for whom they have to make job, grade, position
or other promotions-related changes will appreciate a streamlined promotions
process.

•

Upload Custom Segments and Other Rate values to Compensation Workbench.
Currently, compensation managers can update custom segments and other rates
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they can upload custom segment and other rate changes at the same time which
will help to simplify and make the allocations process more efficient.
3.3.3.2. Display Market Salary Survey Data in Compensation Workbench
Compensation workbench now enables compensation managers to compare their
employees' salaries to the prevailing market average wages (market average wages that is
imported into or set up in Oracle HRMS system), thus ensuring equity in pay when
rewarding their employees.

3.3.4.

Release 12.1.3
3.3.4.1. Performance and Promotion History Popup in Worksheet
Performance and Promotion history, including such details as current and prior ratings,
rankings, job and/or position changes can now be viewed with one click in the
compensation allocation worksheet in a pop up page.
Giving compensation managers the ability to see their employee’s Performance and
Promotion history in one place using one or two simple clicks will help them to make
better and more informed decisions when rewarding their employees.
3.3.4.2. Post Zero Salary Increases
Compensation administrators now have the option to post zero (0.00) salary increases or
increments for employees from Compensation Workbench to HR. This means there will
now be a record of a zero change amount in salary proposals of employees who did not
receive any salary increase.
3.3.4.3. Control Period for Viewing Appraisals in Compensation Allocation
Worksheet
The ability to view employee performance appraisal details from within the
compensation allocation worksheet has been further improved by allowing the
administrator to control the date after which completed performance appraisals will be
available for managers to see.
If there are multiple years of performance appraisals in Performance Management, and/or
employees only have completed appraisals from the previous year and not the "current"
period, when the new year's CWB plan is opened, managers will only see their
employees' performance appraisals from the previous period. This feature will ensure
managers will only see the latest completed appraisals for their employees when making
compensation award decisions for the current period.
3.3.4.4. Refresh Plan, Employee and Summary Data from Compensation
Workbench Home Page
Prior to this release, the Compensation Workbench Refresh process was only available in
the Professional User Interface. Now it is available to administrators on the
Compensation Workbench home page allowing them to refresh plan, summary or
employee HR data all within Compensation Workbench.
3.3.4.5. Ensure Employee’s New Salary is within Grade Range
This new features gives compensation managers and administrators the ability to
optionally validate an employee’s new salary amount against their salary grade range.
This helps to ensure managers comply with company compensation policies as well as
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3.3.5.

3.3.5.1. Proposed Grade Range, Proposed Grade Midpoint and Proposed
Comparatio now Available for Spreadsheet Download
The following fields are now available to download to spreadsheet: Proposed Grade
Range, Proposed Grade Midpoint, and Proposed Comparatio. This helps managers who
need to work offline or who do not have access to Compensation Workbench to make
better and more informed business decisions during the compensation planning cycle.
3.3.5.2. Run the Back-out Compensation Workbench Life Events Process for Single
Person
Administrators can now back out the Compensation Workbench Life Events process for a
single employee, offering a simple way to back out just one person. Until now, the only
way to accomplish this was to write a person selection rule.
3.3.5.3. Optionally Hide In Progress Salary Increases in Employee History
Enterprises may not want their managers to see salary increases that are in progress if
they only have access to non-base salary type compensation plans. Even if managers do
have access to base salary compensation plans, it can be confusing to see an In Progress
row for an employee's salary increase not yet in effect. Compensation Workbench now
offers the option to suppress In Progress rows for salary increases from being displayed
when viewed in Employee History.
3.3.5.4. Download Data Using Web ADI
You can now download data to an Excel spreadsheet using Web ADI for the Employee
Stock Option History and Employee Compensation History reports. You can also now
download the Post-Process Summary and Error reports. This is useful for managers with
a large number of employees when performing audits and/or reconciliation of
compensation allocations.

3.3.6.

3.3.6.1. Email Employee Compensation Statements
Until now, administrators and managers could only print hard copies of employee
compensation statements and manually distribute them. With this release, statements can
now be securely emailed to employees. Administrators can also send statements to a test
email account to verify and resolve any issues before emailing the official statements.
This results in employees receiving their statements quickly and efficiently, broadening
the communication channel between administrators, managers and their employees.
3.3.6.2. Email Total Compensation Statements
In addition to viewing their statements online via Employee Self Service or receiving a
printed hard copy, employees can now have their total compensation statements emailed
to them. Administrators can choose to email total compensation statements en masse or
select a group of employees just like they can with the mass print process today. They
can also "test drive" emailing statements to resolve any issues prior to emailing the
official statements to employees. The addition of the mass email option helps companies
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service is not offered.

3.3.6.3. Back out Compensation Workbench Postprocess
Backing out postprocess is required in the event that the compensation changes were
posted on the wrong effective date or the wrong group of assignments was processed, or
if any corrections are required on a mass scale. Until now, there was no way to back out
the changes posted to the HR system as the existing back-out process meant also backing
out all the changes done in Compensation Workbench, such as budget allocations, awards
allocations as well as worksheet submissions and approvals.
Compensation Workbench now offers the ability for administrators to only back out the
updates to employee records in the HR system while allowing the updates in
Compensation Workbench to remain intact. The new Back-out Postprocess allows
administrators to optionally back out performance ratings in addition to compensation
award amounts. Additionally, they can also choose to return compensation worksheet
control back to the managers in the event further changes need to be made before reposting. This new feature streamlines the corrections process after posting has already
taken place, making the compensation awards process overall much more efficient and
flexible, resulting in a potentially huge cost savings to employers.

3.4.

Or acle HCM Configur ation Wor kbench
3.4.1.

Release 12.1.1
3.4.1.1. Configurator for Person/Assignment Spreadsheet Loader
Currently the Web ADI spreadsheet solutions available in HCM Configuration
Workbench display almost all the columns of person, address, and assignment entities.
These make the spreadsheet to be very large/wide for a typical user and a user has to
scroll all the way to the necessary fields to fill in the relevant information
.The Spreadsheet Loader Configurator module will address the current limitations and
will provide an ability to carve out sub-set of the spreadsheets depending upon the
business requirements or industry and support multiple data sources. The new solution
has the following advantages:
•

Support the different sources for data in a flexible manner: APIs, XML and CSV
files

•

Flexibility to change the layout of the spreadsheet as per industry/vertical

•

Multiple processes support. e.g. ability to configure spreadsheet for specific
processes like mass location changes, mass organization changes etc.


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3.5.

Or acle Human Resour ces (Cor e HR)
3.5.1.

Release 12.1.1
3.5.1.1. Knowledge Integration with ENWISEN
Information for decision support to the user within the application enhances the
transactional capabilities of an application. In the absence of precise supporting
information, the organization’s workforce may have questions that prevent them from
completing transactions. They may lack requisite knowledge to make the right decisions
at the right time. Knowledge integration enables users to have the appropriate
information.
Integration of Oracle HRMS (Self Service) with content vendors like ENWISEN
provides self-service users the following advantages:
•

Ability to launch content pages from non-ebusiness suite sites.

•

Ability to launch third party content sites from HCM self service pages.

•

A seamless working experience between the two user interfaces where by
information like single sign on, subscription ID, and context of the calling page
are passed to the third party vendor to launch the appropriate page.

•

A region in Personal Information (SSHR-EBS HCM) to launch the employee
handbook (ENWISEN).

•

A region in Absence Management (SSHR-EBS HCM) to launch Absence
Policies (ENWISEN).

•

Easily changeable content in accordance with the changes in company policy.

3.5.1.2. HR Help Desk
An HR Help Desk application is for the Request-to-Resolve process wherein a HR help
desk agent receives requests from the employees on their HR related issues. The HR help
desk agent requires navigating to multiple HR application functions to resolve the issues
raised by the requestors such as employees. Oracle Human Capital Management provides
Web Services to integrate with the PeopleSoft’s HR Help Desk.
While launching EBS pages, the EBS system evaluates the login user’s security profile to
identify the security privileges and passes on parameters that help the agent to perform
the transaction.
To enable the HR help agent to use the Help Desk functionality, a system administrator
must complete the following:
•

Configure the predefined web services in the calling application’s Application
Classes to store the data from EBS and display employee data in the 3600 View
page.

•

Configure the RIR messages to subscribe to the web services published from the
PeopleSoft.

HR Help Desk agent can view or perform transactions related to employee Personal,
Assignment, Benefits, and Payroll details. HR Help Desk feature supports UK and US
legislations.


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3.5.1.3. Access to Ex-Employee and Future-Dated Employee Records in User Based
and Dynamic Security
Currently, you cannot access ex-employees’ or future dated employee record(s) if you are
using dynamic security profile. The restriction was placed due to performance
considerations. Unlike static security, in dynamic security profile, the application
evaluates security definition when a user logs in. With a new system profile users are able
to retrieve the ex-employee or future dated employees’ records.
3.5.1.4. Multi-Tenancy for Business Process Outsourcing vendors
Multi-Tenancy in HCM is the ability for the outsourcing provider to support multiple
clients in the same HR instance. Each client must have exclusive access to only their own
data and should not have access to other Enterprises data. This enhancement will provide
the data separation using Oracle Label Security. A framework will be provided within
HCM to configure the system to operate in multi-tenant mode.

3.5.2.

Release 12.1.2
3.5.2.1. Use Search Criteria to Query Records in the People Window
Currently, in the People window, records can be queried by using a blind query or simply
entering %. This causes heavy impact on performance when there is a high volume of
records in the database. From this release onwards, users must provide at least one
selective search criterion, such as first name%, for example: John%. Entering a selective
search criterion improves search performance and minimizes the record retrieval time.
3.5.2.2. Ability to change the Final Process Date when it is set same as the Last
Standard Process Date
Prior to this release, when HR managers processed terminations they could not modify
the Final Process Date (FPD) if the date is same as the Last Standard Process Date
(LSPD). With this release, managers can modify final process date even when it was set
same as the last standard process date.

3.5.3.

Release 12.1.3
3.5.3.1. Enhanced Document of Records
“Document types” shown in the Create or Update pages of Document of Records feature
in Manager Self -Service and Oracle HRMS Fast Path is now dependent on country
selected. Managers and Administrators get to see document types which are relevant to
country chosen. Enterprises can also configure approvals when new documents are create
or updated.
The AME based Approval process can be enabled by adding functional parameter
“pAMETranType” to the employee and manager self service document of records
function.
3.5.3.2. Ability to Restrict Negative Balance in Absence
Oracle HRMS now enables enterprises to check for leave balance and warn workers
about negative leave balance when they apply for leave. Enterprises can define the HR:
Allow Absence Negative Balance profile option to enable this feature. If the profile value
is set to ‘Yes’, then the existing behavior continues. If the profile value is set to ‘No’,
workers who overshoot their balance will get a message that their leave balance is
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3.5.3.3. Additional Parameters in BG_ABSENCE_DURATION Fast Formula
Prior to this feature, BG Absence duration fast formula consisted of four parameters:
Start Date, End Date, Start Time, and End Time. To provide more parameters to calculate
absence duration, the first five information attributes of developer descriptive flexfield
‘Additional Absence Detail Information’ are now included as input parameters for BG
Absence Duration Fast formula.
3.5.3.4. Ability to use Dynamic Approvals in Checklist
From this release, you can use Oracle Approvals Management (AME) to set up dynamic
approvals for the Checklists functionality. Prior to this release approvals could be set only
on the basis of individual tasks in checklist. With this release approval groups can be
configured on the basis of tasks as well as person for whom checklist/task is assigned.
3.5.3.5. Ability to view Criteria Set associated to Grade Step
While defining GSP, rates can be associated to the Grade steps. The step rate is the salary
amount an employee is eligible for when placed on that step. Criteria Salary Rates
enables user to vary the step rate for different criteria sets.
At present, once a criteria set is associated to Grade ladder, it is not by default visible in
GSP wizard. Users need to remember the name of the Criteria set and then retrieve the
details.
Now, for a Grade Ladder, all associated Criteria sets are listed by default in the Update
Criteria Salary Rate page. Also, in the “Task: Rates” page a pop-up window is enabled on
the “Criteria Salary Rate Exists” column, which displays criteria set associated with the
Grade Ladder.

3.5.4.

3.5.4.1. Approvals in Global Deployment
Using Global Deployments, HR Professionals can transfer employees from one business
group to other business group either temporarily or as a permanent transfer. Oracle
HRMS now enables enterprises to setup approval processes to route deployment
proposals. Enterprises can configure approval rules using Oracle Approvals Management
(AME).

3.5.5.

Release 12.2.2
3.5.5.1. Wor kflow Synchr onization
The Synchronize WF Local Tables (FNDWFLSC) concurrent Program, also known as
Bulk Synchronization, which was built to move user or role data from product groups to
the Workflow Directory Services (WFDS) tables so that the users and roles created in
those product groups can participate in Workflow processing has been phased out with
this release. This program is now replaced with Incremental Synch APIs provided by
workflow to move user or role data from product groups to the Workflow Directory
Services tables. From this release onwards, Incremental Synch APIs will be called
internally to move user/role data from product groups to the Workflow Directory Services
tables.

3.5.5.2. Update Records with Future Person Changes
Prior to this release, HR users could not perform many personnel actions like Hire,
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future date for an employee. Even though this restriction ensured data integrity, this
approach has become restrictive in many standard business cases. With this release
onwards those restrictions are removed while keeping the data integrity. Now, HR users
can perform transactions such as Termination, Reverse Terminations or Reconsider
Application in iRecruitment even though future dated person type changes exist for an
employee. Oracle HRMS provides the HR:Future Dated Person Changes profile option to
control the ability of HR users to perform such changes.

3.6.

3.6.1.

3.6.1.1.

Nominate Employee Termination Payments (ETP) as Transitional or NonTransitional Life Benefit Payments

Employers pay a lump sum amount to employees on their termination or their death
referred to as Employment Termination Payment (or ETP). Employment Termination
Payment was previously called as Eligible Termination Payments.
Employees receive the employee termination payments as:


Life Benefit ETP or Non- transitional Life Benefit ETP - paid to employees on
their termination for any reason other than death



Transitional Life Benefit ETP - paid to employees between 1 July 2007 and 30
June 2012



Death Benefit ETP - paid either to a trustee, dependent, or a non-dependent on
employee’s death

Employers can now nominate whether a Life Benefit ETP Payment is a transitional ETP
or a non-transitional ETP and if it is part of a previously paid ETP. These ETPs can be
taxable or tax-free. You can now calculate the taxable and tax-free components of these
payments. The Pre 1 July 1983 component of these ETPs and Invalidity ETP Payments
are tax-free. Any other payments other than these components are included in the taxable
components. The taxation of ETP’s now includes a threshold that depends on
preservation age of the employee. The date of birth of employees determines their
preservation age. The taxable components of ETP Payments are taxed according to the
employee’s age as on 30th June of the current financial year.
Oracle HRMS supports the taxation of these ETP payments to include the taxable and
non-taxable components. You can also calculate the tax of Transitional ETPs and partial
payment of ETPs.
Oracle also supports the new layout of the ETP Payment Summary Layout to meet the
ATO requirements beginning 01-Jul-2007.
3.6.1.2.

Comply with Statutory Updates for EOY 2007

Oracle HRMS supports statutory changes for End of Year 2007 for Australia, which
includes:


Change to rates to calculate the HELP deductions and the Student Financial
Supplement Schemes (SFSS)



Calculate the HELP and SFSS deductions when an employee has no general
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

Change to the Medicare Levy, PAYG tax, and Senior Australian tax rates
according to the May budget



Increase in Superannuation and Lump sum D thresholds



Removal of the Post 30 June 1983 ETP concession on tax



Change to the rate for annual leave on termination if less than $300



Reduced percentage of Payroll Tax for South Australia

3.6.1.3.

Override the Eligibility Set on the Element to Pay the Long Service Leave
Amount

You can now override the eligibility set on the element and pay the prorated long service
leave balance amount regardless of whether it is accrual or entitlement.
Before you pay the employee, you must end-date the element Long Service Leave on
Termination and re-link it.

3.6.2.

3.6.2.1.

Multiple ETP Payment Summary

Users can now make multiple employment termination payments (ETP) and generate
separate ETP payment summary for each ETP payment type. Individual thresholds
determine tax for each ETP. Additionally, users can create a new record in the
Termination window to enter multiple ETP payments or add a new ETP element.

3.6.3.

3.6.3.1.

Pay Multiple Employment Termination Payments (ETP) and Generate
Separate ETP Payment Summaries

You can now pay multiple ETPs and generate separate ETP Payment Summary for each
payment type. Oracle HRMS uses appropriate individual thresholds to tax each ETP.
You can now create a new record in the Termination window to enter multiple ETPs or
add a new ETP element. You can also rollover amounts from either the Transitional Part
of Previous ETP and Transitional Not Part of Previous ETP or both.
3.6.3.2.

Display Multiple ETP’s on Termination Report

Currently, the Termination Report does not display multiple ETP’s that an employee
receives on termination or their primary address. With this release, the Termination
Report now displays the various ETP payments that employee receives on termination
within the same financial year. You can now view the Transitional ETP and NonTransitional ETP within the Termination Report. Additionally, the report displays the
employee’s primary address.
3.6.3.3.

Use the Changed ETP Payment Summary Layout 2007

Starting 01-July-2007, the layout of the ETP Payment Summary report has changed. A
new postscript layout for the ETP Payment Summary report is now available to meet
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3.6.3.4.

Report Employee’s Tax File Number (TFN) to Super Fund

Starting 1 July 2007, employers must now report an employee’s TFN to Super fund.
Previously, it was optional for employers to report the TFN so the default was No. The
default value is now set to Yes on the Superannuation Guarantee Information element.
3.6.3.5.

Calculate Extra Withholding Amounts for Advance Payments

Oracle HRMS now enables you to calculate the extra withholding amounts for advance
payments based on advance earnings and advance periods. Previously, you could
calculate the extra withholding from the normal payments only.
3.6.3.6.

Deduct Retro Pretax Amounts from Retro Earnings

Oracle HRMS now supports the deduction of the retro pretax amounts from retro
earnings of each time span separately as follows:



Retro pretax for previous financial year less than 12 months from retro earnings
for previous financial year than 12 months and then taxed marginally



3.6.4.

Retro pretax for current financial year from retro earning for the current financial
year and then taxed in the original period

Retro pretax for greater than 12 months deducted from retro earnings for greater
than 12 months and then taxed marginally

3.6.4.1.

Calculate Payroll Using the Updated Payroll Tax Rates

Use the new Payroll Tax Rates to calculate payroll tax in New South Wales and Payroll
Tax in South Australia. These rates are effective from 1 January 2009.
3.6.4.2.

Report Allowances Using Balance Attributes

Currently, Oracle HRMS for Australia identifies allowances to report in the Payment
Summary based on element information. This process requires drilling down to run
results to identify an allowance balance resulting in performance issues.
With this release, you can use the Balance Attribute functionality to ensure better
performance by identifying the reportable balances, group level reporting for allowances
in the Payment Summary archive and End of Year Reconciliation reports.
Oracle provides a new concurrent program- Maintain Payment Summary Allowance
Balances to aid users to upgrade the existing Payment Summary reportable allowance
balances to have Balance Attribute - Payment Summary Reportable Allowances.

3.6.5.

Release 12.1.2
3.6.5.1. Rehir e Befor e Final Pr ocess Date
Currently there is a restriction wherein employees cannot be rehired before the final
process date set for a previously terminated employment.
In this enhancement, this restriction of not allowing employees to be rehired before the
final process date has been removed for the Australia localization. Now, terminated
employees can be rehired any time after the last standard process date and prior to the
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3.6.6.

Release 12.1.3
3.6.6.1. Enable Retr o Over lap for Austr alia
Retro Overlap is new functionality that eliminates overlap in RetroPay processing. Retro
Overlap will use balance adjustments to self adjust the balances within RetroPay to
ensure that they are correct at the time of recalculation. The new functionality also
improves RetroPay performance.

3.6.7.

3.6.7.1. AU local addr ess style and upgrade
Australia localization had a single global address style AU_GLB. Australia specific
legislative reports expects certain address fields to be mandatory, which cannot be
enforced in the global address style. So a local AU address style is delivered through this
enhancement. An upgrade process is also provided, for customers to migrate the existing
addresses to local address style.
3.6.7.2. AU Year End Enhancements
The Australia Payment Summary process has been enhanced with the following changes:
- Support for archiving assignments selectively using an assignment set parameter
- Consistent display of financial year listing in the Self-service LOV and PUI LOV
- Ensuring that the TFN number displayed in the report is the latest

3.6.7.3. AU Payr oll Reconciliation Summar y r eport in XL output
This enhancement delivers the capability of producing the Payroll Reconciliation
Summary report data in a spreadsheet format, similar to the other reconciliation reports
available in the localization.

3.6.8.

3.6.8.1. AU Multiple Payment Summar y Amendment
This enhancement allows payroll user to generate multiple amended Payment Summary
Reports. Earlier our application allowed only one amendment, user had to rollback the
previous payment summary amendment to generate a new report output.



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3.7.

3.7.1.

3.7.1.1.

Enter NI for Employees Whose Nationality is Not Belgian or Country of
Birth is Not Belgium

You can now enter NI numbers for Employees whose nationality is not Belgian or
country of birth is not Belgium.

3.8.

Oracle HRMS (Canada)
3.8.1.

3.8.1.1.

Comply with Canadian Cheque Specification Changes

The Canadian Payments Association (CPA) published new specifications for Canadian
cheques in preparation for the transition to image-based clearing. Enhancements have
been delivered to comply with these changes.

3.8.2.

Release 12.1.2
3.8.2.1. Use Retro Overlap Enabled for Canada Payroll
Retro Overlap is new functionality that eliminates overlap in RetroPay processing. Retro
Overlap will use balance adjustments to self adjust the balances within RetroPay to
ensure that they are correct at the time of recalculation. The new functionality also
improves RetroPay performance.

3.8.3.

3.8.3.1. Canadian Cheque Writer (XML), Canadian Deposit Advice (XML) and
Canadian Third Party Cheque Writer (XML)
Customers now have the ability to generate cheques and deposit advices in a PDF format.
This allows customers to use generic stock which results in cost savings and improves
efficiency.
A seeded RTF template is provided that can be configured according to business need to
produce the desired PDF payroll cheque, third party cheque and deposit advice output.
3.8.3.2. Payroll Exception Report
Use the new Payroll Exception Report to identify variations in payroll balances in the
payroll run and report them as exceptions. This new report provides an additional tool to
improve efficiencies for payroll managers and administrators.



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