Oracle HRMS Release wise feature list - From Version 12.2.4 to 12.2.10

In this chapter, It is captured the Oracle Features name & its function description module wise with respect to the release starting from Version 12.2.4 to 12.2.10.

 

S.No	Version	Module	Feature Name	Description
1	12.2.4	Payroll	View Payroll Processes Readiness Quickly using Payroll Dashboard	Payroll Dashboard enables administrators to monitor different payroll-related processes in a dashboard.
2	12.2.4	Payroll	Create and Update Multiple Retro Assignments using Web ADI Spreadsheet	This release facilitates users to create or update multiple retro assignments or entries using a spreadsheet.
3	12.2.4	Payroll	Improve Performance using the Single Latest Balance Table Upgrade Process	With this release, the Single Latest Balance Table Upgrade process is made generic and available to all localizations so that it eases the support of latest balances and ensures performance improvements made due to the single model.
4	12.2.4	Payroll	Use Quick Pay Archiver Process for International HRMS Users	The Quick Pay Archive has been enabled for International HRMS users to run for one assignment.
5	12.2.4	Payroll	Enable Sparse Matrix for International HRMS	International HRMS users use this feature to avoid the creation of null run result values.
6	12.2.4	Payroll	Payslip Modeling Enabled for India	The Payslip Modeling functionality has been enabled for India localization and enables employees to perform payroll what-if analysis and generate a sample payslip.
7	12.2.4	Payroll	Use the Updated 24Q Forms	Oracle provides the new data structure of eTDS-24Q forms from 01-Apr-2013.
8	12.2.4	Payroll	Use the Revised Loan Rates from SBI	The revised loan rates effective from 01-Apr-2013 for housing loan, education loan, vehicle loan and personal loans are available. This release enables users to use the updated values for payroll processing and calculation purposes.
9	12.2.4	Payroll	Prevent Loss of Latest Balances for International HRMS	To prevent the deletion of latest balances as part of balance adjustments, the legislation rule is set to Y for International HRMS.
10	12.2.4	SSHR	Use Transaction Monitor	Using the Transaction Monitor feature, employees, managers, and HR professionals can view and track details of their self-service transactions, that are in pending approval, deferred, completed, and errored status. For self-service transactions that are in pending approval or completed status, employees, managers, and HR Professionals can use the transaction monitor to view the approval history, comments, and attachments for the transactions, if any. Employees can view all transactions that they initiate. However, managers can view only those transactions initiated by them on any worker within their hierarchy. HR Professionals can view all transactions initiated by workers and managers based on their security profile.
11	12.2.4	OTL	Use the Self Service Additional Details Enhancement	Oracle Time and Labor enables the Self-Service and Timekeeper user to enter timecards along with additional details in specific layouts. Prior to this release, Self-Service Descriptive Flexfields for additional details displayed always irrespective of availability of data. With this release, additional details display only when data is available.
12	12.2.4	OTL	Use Assignment Time Information	With this release, WebADI integrator for mass uploading and modification of assignment time information is available to OTL administrators. Earlier, OTL administrators had to create or edit assignments individually for each employee.
13	12.2.5	OTL	Time Entry Detail Report	The data entered in the time card using OTL application goes through a timecard explosion process based on the setup rules defined in the OTLR modules. Currently, this explosion data is available only after the timecard is approved and transferred to the OTLR module. From this release, the timecard explosion process data is available for view via the Time Entry Detail report
14	12.2.5	OTL	Hour Deduction Policy in Minutes	With this release, you can define an Hour Deduction Policy with deduction rules defined in minutes. This establishes how many minutes, if any, must be automatically deducted as unpaid time from the employee’s recorded time
15	12.2.5	OTL	OTL Time Card Integration with HR Absences	With this release, the integration between HR Absences and OTL Time card is extended to timecards which have OTLR feature enabled
16	12.2.5	OTL	Day of the Week Rule	With this release, an additional earning rule is provided to process time entered on specific days of the work week, different from the standard Daily Earning Rule. The new earning rule is available for daily or special earning policies. This enhancement enables users to treat a specific day differently from the rest of the days for the purpose of determining regular and overtime.
17	12.2.5	OTL	Ability to Run Transfer Time from OTL TO BEE for Multiple Business Groups	With this release you can run transfer time from OTL TO BEE for multiple business groups in parallel
18	12.2.5	SSHR	Use Simplified User Interface (UI) Menus for Oracle SSHR	Oracle SSHR provides simplified user interface (UI) menus that facilitate general and localization self-service users better search and transactional user experience. The general and localization self-service simplified UI menus group together related functions to perform self-service tasks with more ease. For example, the 'Manager Self Service - Simplified' menu includes the 'Onboard' function that groups together related functions: Hire, Contingent Worker Placement, Applicant Hire and Rehire, and Reverse Termination. When managers click the 'Onboard' prompt in the 'Manager Self Service - Simplified' menu, the Hire: Enter Basic Details page appears, the application presents these grouped functions as easily identifiable function tabs. Managers can perform self-service transactions from the same page rather than navigating back to Home. Similarly, the 'Employee Self Service - Simplified' menu includes the 'Professional Details' function that groups together related functions: Education and Qualifications, Other Professional Qualifications, Competency Profile, and Work Preferences. Each of these functions does not appear as separate prompts in the responsibility. When an employee clicks the Professional Details prompt, the application presents these functions as easily identifiable function tabs on the Education and Qualifications page. Workers can click each of the tabs to navigate to the relevant pages to provide professional details. Note: The simplified UI is available only when launching functions from the 'Simplified UI menus' and not from features such as Talent Profile, Save for Later, Update Action on notifications, Return for Correction etc.
19	12.2.5	SSHR	Display the Person Card Pop-up in OAF Pages	The Person Card pop-up provides information such as the name, discretionary title, organization, work phone, mobile phone, and location of a person. Using the Oracle Applications Framework (OAF) Personalization function, a system administrator can configure to display the Person Card as a pop-up in the applicable Oracle Applications Framework (OAF) pages. For example, you can personalize the Oracle SSHR Change Manager page to display the Person Card pop-up for the employee Name field.
20	12.2.5	SSHR	View and Perform Manager Actions for Multiple Assignments Using Organization Chart or Talent Profile	Using Organization Chart or Talent Profile, managers can now view details and perform manager actions for multiple assignments of an employee or worker in their hierarchy, if the subordinate has more than one assignment. Using the Assignment drop-down in the Talent Profile page, managers can select the relevant assignment to view details and perform manager appropriate actions. Managers can also view and process actions for more than one assignment of an employee or worker using the Organization Chart. If there are workers on secondary assignment reporting to a manager, then the organization chart represents this reporting structure in a dotted line format. Prior to this release, Organization Chart and Talent Profile displayed only one assignment of subordinates. Note: Managers can perform these actions for multiple assignments only if the Multiple Assignments feature is enabled and the appropriate security access is setup. For more details, refer to the People in Hierarchy and Multiple Assignments topics in the Oracle Self-Service Human Resources Deploy Self-Service Capability Guide
21	12.2.5	SSHR	Launch Personal Actions from the Organization Chart as a Worker	Currently, only managers who log in using the Manager Self-Service responsibility can launch manager actions from the Organization Chart. From this release, using the Employee Self-Service responsibility, Talent Profile function, My Hierarchy tab, workers can launch personal actions using the Actions link in the personal details panel.  When a worker selects an action, the action is launched in a page with a side navigation container in the Personal Actions tab. All the personal actions links appear in the side navigation container on the left side of the page. The worker can complete the transaction launched, and move on to other transactions without leaving the page. Note that workers can launch actions only for their primary assignment.
22	12.2.5	Payroll	Use Improved Payroll Dashboard	The Payroll Dashboard includes improvements to process monitoring and payroll analytics to provide the payroll professionals a deeper view of employee payroll data.  The improved performance ensures efficient and accurate payroll processing resulting in reduced time and cost.
23	12.2.5	Payroll	New Costing of Payments	This release delivers a set of Costing of Payment reports which aim at reporting payment costing details in the form of summary, details, or cost code level breakdown over a date range or specified costing process. The various reports available are: Costing of Payment Summary Report – Consolidates costing data at payroll or GRE level Costing of Payment Detail Report – Displays assignment level details of costing of each payment Costing of Payment Breakdown Report – Consolidates costing data at cost code or account leve
24	12.2.5	Payroll	Remove Bank A/C entry for 3rd Party Personal Payment Method	Currently Third Party Payment account details must be entered for each employee if deductions are made and paid to a third party organization. If payment is done for same organization, then it is time consuming and a repetitive action, as for each employee same information needs to be entered.This release eliminates the need for this action and enables users to record the third party payment account bank details (for Direct deposit only) at an organization level
25	12.2.5	Payroll	Ability to Add Period 27 to Biweekly Payroll Calendar	Prior to this release, there was no change to the payroll period numbers when the regular payment date changed from later legislative year to previous year. With this release, for weekly and bi-weekly payroll period types, the period numbers are renumbered accordingly, when the regular payment date is changed from a later legislative year to the previous legislative year
26	12.2.5	Payroll	Changes to hrglobal Data Install for International Payroll	International HR and Payroll Setup has moved to hrglobal to comply with online patching standards. A new user option has been added to the interactive menu of hrglobal Data Installer to select any existing International Payroll legislations to update seed data. The legislations which are selected through Data Installer options get updated to latest seed data after processing hrglobal driver
27	12.2.5	PMS	Reopen Scorecards that are at the Transferred from Plan Status when a Plan is Republished	From this release, when a plan administrator selects the Reevaluate Plan Population option in the Update: Plan Review page and if the application finds that the worker is eligible to become part of the plan population again, then appraisals and scorecards with Transferred from Plan status are reopened so that the previously worked details are available to view and update using the Employee Self-Service or Manager Self-Service responsibilities.
28	12.2.5	Core HR	Display the Person Card Pop-up in OAF Pages	The Person Card pop-up provides information such as the name, discretionary title, organization, work phone, mobile phone, and location of a person. Using the Oracle Applications Framework (OAF) Personalization function, a system administrator can configure to display the Person Card as a pop-up in the applicable Oracle Applications Framework (OAF) pages. For example, you can personalize the Oracle SSHR Change Manager page to display the Person Card pop-up for the employee Name field.
29	12.2.5	Core HR	Define the HR: Evaluate User Access Using Minimal Cache Profile Option	From this release, if you use user-based security profiles and have huge volume of security data to process, then you can set the new HR: Evaluate User Access using Minimal Cache profile option to improve the system performance while evaluating security profiles. Set the profile option for responsibilities that are attached to the user-based profiles only.
30	12.2.5	Payroll	Comply with Statutory Changes for EPF and EPS	The statutory changes for India require updates to the EPF and EPS calculations effective from 1 Sept 2014.  Oracle HRMS for India delivers the following statutory updates for EPF and EPS which include: The statutory wage ceiling under the EPF, EPS and EDLI has increased from INR 6,500 to INR 15,000 per month. For the financial year 2014-15, the minimum pension is fixed at INR 1,000/ month for the members of the EPS New EPF members cannot contribute to EPS, if their pay is more than INR 15,000/ month at the time of joining The insurance benefit under the EDLI has increased by 20% in addition to the existing admissible benefits
31	12.2.5	Payroll	Generate Individual Form 16 PDF to Employees	Employers can now generate individual Form 16 as PDF files. Oracle HRMS for India delivers the changes to the Employee Annual Tax Returns (India) concurrent program to enable users to create individual Form 16 PDF files for employees. Employers can store the generated PDFs according to the employee number in a specified path. If the path is not specified, then the application stores these files in the default path of  $APPLCSF/out.
32	12.2.5	Payroll	Implement Check for Landlord PAN details for House Rent Exemption	According to new statutory requirements, employees must provide the PAN numbers of all landlords where the monthly rent paid exceeds Rs. 8333.33/- The employer must maintain this information for any verification by the IT department. Employers are required to check the proofs submitted by the employee and decide whether to provide exemption or not to the employee. This release delivers a new Element - Proof of Landlord that enables users to record whether the landlord holds a PAN and whether to provide (YES/NO) for giving exemption. The exemption is calculated depending on the value set by the user for this flag.
33	12.2.5	Payroll	Comply with Changes to 24QC for 2010-2013	The data structure of quarterly e-TDS / TCS statements has been modified by the Income Department to incorporate certain additional fields and validations. Users can no longer record the Y type of correction effective from 2013-14. To support this requirement, the concurrent program Form 24Q Corrections Archive(India) is changed and the  value – Y of the parameter Correction Type is disabled. There are certain changes to the 24Q Correction and eTDS 24Q Returns. Consolidated file hash in the File Header Record section to record the Hash value as per the consolidated file. This is not mandatory. New fields added in the Batch Header Record section to record the details such as employer mobile number and TAN registration no. of the Organization. New fields are added in the Challan Detail Record in order to record the details such as Late Fee, Minor Head of Challan. New fields are added in the Deductee Detail Record to record Certificate Number and Section Code.
34	12.2.5	Payroll	View Payslips from Personal Actions and Talent Profile Pages	Users can view their payslips from the Personal Actions and Talent Profile self-service pages. With this release, Oracle HRMS for India delivers a new function that enables users to view their payslips from the Personal Actions and Talent Profile self-service pages
35	12.2.5	Payroll	Report UAN on Payslip	The PF UAN needs to be displayed on both printed and online payslips. The payroll archiver is modified to archive UAN. The UAN is archived against segment Collective Agreement under context employee details. For online payslip, the page PayslipPG is personalised for India localization to display Collective Agreement segment and changed the prompt of this segment to UAN.
36	12.2.5	Payroll	Specify Offset for Viewing the Online Payslip	Users can now specify an offset date for payslip, which ensures that employees cannot view their payslip prior to the payslip date. Users were able to view the payslip immediately after all the post payroll run processes have been completed successfully. Users can now specify in the Payroll Definition window an offset date for payslip, which ensures that employees cannot view their payslip prior to the payslip date defined for a pay period, even though all the payroll processes complete successfully before that date.
37	12.2.5	Payroll	Comply with Statutory Changes for 2014-2015	Oracle HRMS for India complies with the Budget changes for 2014-15. Employees can avail tax benefits for the following: Income tax exemption limit for individuals increased from Rs.2 to 2.5 lakh Income tax exemption limit for senior citizens is increased from Rs. 2.5  to Rs.3 lakh The investment limit for deductions under section 80C is increased from Rs. 1 to 1.5 lakh The deduction limit on account of interest on housing loan for self- occupied property is increased from Rs. 1.5 to Rs. 2 lakh Public Provident Fund annual ceiling amount is raised to Rs. 1.5 Lakh New Section 80EE - Users can now record a new deduction under Section 80EE in respect of interest on loan taken for residential house property under Chapter VIA Deductions. New State of Telangana Effective from 01-Apr-2014, SBI Loan rates have been revised. Oracle delivers the changes to Globals, elements, balances, formulas, user tables, and lookups to support these statutory changes.
38	12.2.5	Payroll	Income from House Property Ceiling for Tax Exemptions not Restricted	The Income Tax declaration by an employee will be used by the payroll process to calculate the income tax for an employee based on the income tax rules and exemptions. This enhancement enables employees to declare the home loans taken against their house properties. Employers can process and calculate their tax accordingly. Employees must submit the proofs for the tax declared at the end of the year. The payroll professional validates the proofs submitted by the employee and approves them based on which the final income tax of the financial year is calculated and deducted accordingly.
39	12.2.5	Payroll	Perform Readiness Checks using Payroll Dashboard	he Payroll Dashboard provides payroll professionals valuable insight into their payroll and assignment process information by enabling them with payroll readiness, analysis and validation information for the entire payroll cycle. They can also improve efficiency and reduce costly errors by using the dashboard to monitor payroll and assignment processes. Payroll professionals can run, retry, or roll back any of the payroll processes.  Administrators can easily configure the payroll readiness, analysis and validation information according to their requirements using both delivered as well as custom checks and rules.
40	12.2.5	Payroll	Comply with Statutory Changes for 2015-2016	This release supports the statutory changes for India for the year 2015-2016 Increase in surcharge Amendments to Section 80D regarding Health insurance Amendments to section 80DDB regarding medical treatment Amendments to sections 80DD and 80U for disabled persons Limit on deduction on account of contribution to a pension fund and the NPS is raised Amendment to section 80CCD Raise in Transport Allowance Sukanya Samriddhi Scheme Amendments to section 80G Oracle delivers the changes to Globals, user tables, formulas for supporting these statutory updates
41	12.2.6	OTL	Use Shift Premium Deduction Change	With this release, you can use a new profile option to restrict the hour deduction policy on shift premiums to be equal to hour deductions on regular hours
42	12.2.6	OTL	Use New Profile Options in Oracle Time and Labor	With this release, you can use new profile options in Oracle Time and Labor.
43	12.2.6	OTL	Credit Overtime as Absence	With this release, administrators can credit overtime earned by employees to the respective employees’ accrual plans as Paid Time Off or Absence. An option is provided to link overtime earning types (payroll elements) to absence elements used in Net Calculation Rules for accrual plans. Accrual Plans are affected with the PTO in lieu of overtime when timecards which includes the overtime are processed into Payroll
44	12.2.6	OTL	New Calendar View of Timecards	With this release, you can use a new page, based on ADF technology, to view all time entries recorded in time store with start and stop or hours displayed in flexible calendar styles. Available time entries are indicated with user configured color patterns. This enhancement also provides ability to navigate to existing create and view timecards pages
45	12.2.6	Payroll	Manage Assignment Sets using Web ADI	With this release, Oracle Payroll delivers an efficient way of managing the assignment set using Web ADI capabilities. The Web ADI interface enables users to download an existing assignment set, add new assignments, and upload the assignment set. A new function, Manage Assignment Set, is delivered with this release. To manage assignment sets, each user must add the new function to their responsibility. Users can perform the following actions: Create assignment sets using Web ADI. Search, edit and manage assignment sets. Convert dynamic assignment sets to static assignment sets. Activate and nactivate assignment sets. Delete assignment sets.
46	12.2.6	Payroll	Bank Account Number Verification using Self Service HR	Oracle Payroll enables employees to enter their bank account details using the Manage Payroll Payments self-service page. To ensure that the correct account number is entered and to avoid any discrepancies, the employee is required to enter their account number twice. When an employee enters the account number the first time, the value is masked and and the option to copy is disabled. The application validates the entered information, and if the information is incorrect, prompts the user to re-enter the bank account number. Currently this feature is enabled for US and CA localizations only. This feature is optional for users and can be enabled through the profile option - PAY: Enable Personal Bank Account Validation. The profile option allows users to selectively enable or disable the validation.
47	12.2.6	Payroll	Analyze and Review RetroPay Entries using New Interface	Currently, users review the results of the RetroPay Enhanced process by checking the Assignment or the Payroll Process Results window for the process completion status. To review the retro entries generated, they use the Element Entries window. Oracle Payroll now provides a new user interface for users to query the assignment actions of the RetroPay Enhanced process and to review the corresponding retro entries created. This feature also provides users with a detailed drill-down of RetroPay element entry such as the original date earned and a comparison of the retro entry input values with the original run result. Users query the retro assignment actions effective between the specified dates for a given assignment or payroll.
48	12.2.6	Payroll	Submit and Verify Investment Proofs Using SSHR	Oracle HRMS for India delivers the new self-service page for employees to upload their investment proofs for their tax declaration purposes.
49	12.2.6	Payroll	Enable RetroPay Overlap	The RetroPay Overlap feature has been enabled for India localization. Oracle delivers a new concurrent program Enable Retro Overlap for all IN Business Groups. If this feature is enabled, the application recalculates only from the latest reprocess date during retropay processing.
50	12.2.6	Payroll	Access and View Payslip in a PDF File Using SSHR	This feature enables employees to view their payslip in a PDF file using the Employee Self-Service responsibility. Users can use the predefined template or add custom code to customize their payslip according to their requirements. The XML Publisher engine is used to generate a PDF document.
51	12.2.6	Payroll	Comply with Changes to Professional Tax Rates	The Professional Tax rates have been changed for Coimbatore Corporation and the states of Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Kerala. The professional rates have changed from 1268.00 to 1250 for employees having a half-yearly income of above Rs. 750001 in Coimbatore Corporation. For the state of Maharashtra, the rate has been changed for male employees to Rs. 175 per month if their income is between Rs. 7,500 to Rs. 10,000. The professional tax rate is zero for female employees, whose income does not exceed Rs. 10,000 . These rates are effective from April 1, 2015. For Karnataka, the rate has been changed effective from April 1, 2015. The exemption limit has been increased from Rs.10,000 to Rs.15,000. Senior citizens above 60 years of age have been exempted from professional tax. For Kerala Corporation and Kerala Panchayat, the professional tax rate slabs have changed effective April 1, 2015. Oracle delivers the updated user tables and changed formula with the new values for professional tax rates.
52	12.2.6	Payroll	Comply with the Loan Rate Changes for 2015	The State Bank of India has released the new loan rate values for the following loan types for the year 2015. Home Loans Personal Loan Car Loans Two Wheelers Loan Education Loan Loan against NSCs/KVPs/ RBI Relief Bonds/Surrender value of SBI Life/LIC/SBI Magnum etc. loan rates Loan against pledge of gold ornaments With this release, Oracle delivers the updated user tables and changed formulas that reflect the new rates required for computing perquisite valuation
53	12.2.6	Payroll	Comply with Changes to the Deductions under Section 80EE	Employees can no longer make deductions under section 80EE effective from April 1, 2015, which includes the deductions made towards the Interest Paid on House Property. The input value, Eligible for Section 80EE available on the element House Loan Information will therefore no longer be available effective from March 31, 2015.In addition to this change, the Employee Tax Declaration and the Professional User Tax Declaration interfaces have been modified to remove any references of the Deductions under Section 80EE. A new skip rule, IN_SEC_80EE_SKIP_RULE has been attached for the element Deduction Under Section 80EE to skip the processing of the element
54	12.2.6	Payroll	Use the Updated Provident Fund Admin Charges	Effective from January 1, 2015, the Provident Fund administration charges have changed from 1.1% to 0.85%. The global variable value of IN_PF_ADMIN_PERCENT has been changed from 1.1 to 0.85.
55	12.2.6	Payroll	Calculate Gratuity for Deceased Employees	Gratuity is now calculated for government employees for whom the reason for termination is death. The formula IN_GRATUITY_CALCULATION has been updated to use the new rule while calculating gratuity. The input value, Completed Service Years of the element Gratuity Information will not be considered for calculating Gratuity for terminated employees due to death.
56	12.2.6	Payroll	Use the New Eligibility Period for Gratuity Calculations	The eligibility period for calculating Gratuity can be 4 years 190 days or 4 years 240 days depending on the employment category. Currently, the application calculates the Gratuity for employees with 4 years 240 days eligibility period only. With this release, a new option is available at the organization level to enable users to choose the gratuity eligibility rule for calculating Gratuity using 190 days or 240 days. Users can override the rule mode at the assignment level by selecting a different continuous service rule for Gratuity in the Statutory Information window
57	12.2.6	Payroll	Calculate and Process Contributions to the National Pension Scheme	Employees can contribute to the National Pension Scheme (NPS) and be eligible for tax exemptions. To enable employees to record their contributions towards the National Pension Scheme, Oracle provides a new organization classification to record the NPS organization details. Employees can declare the amount or a percentage of contribution using self-service. They must record their Permanent Retirement Account Number (PRAN) number, which the employer uses while sending the subscriber list to the Point of Presence (POP). Users must define the NPS account type for an organization using the National Pension Scheme organization classification. They can set up information for an NPS account by recording the Corporate Registration Number (CRA), and a Corporate Branch Office (CBO) Number allocated by the CRA and the Tier 1 contribution percentage. Oracle provides a new element NPS Information for recording the NPS amount
58	12.2.6	Payroll	Comply Budget Changes for 2015-16	This release complies with the Budget changes for 2015-16 to include the following: New term Very Senior Citizen Increase in Surcharge % for Income above Rs 1 Crore Amendment to section 80D Amendment to section 80DDB Amendments to section 80DD regarding disabled dependant information Amendments to sections 80U for disabled persons (Self) Amendments to section 80CCD – Additional deduction for NPS under Section 80CCD(1B) Increase in Transport Allowance exemption Sukanya Samriddhi Scheme section 80C Amendments to section 80G Oracle delivers changes to the global variable values, to the SSHR pages, and to the elements to meet these budget changes
59	12.2.6	Payroll	Generate Payroll Register Report Using BI Publisher	Previously, the Payroll Register Report was being generated using the Discoverer Report. From this release, the Payroll Register Report is generated using the BI Publisher. Users can now generate the report in the HTML and the Excel formats. Payroll Register Report is a consolidated report of all payroll runs within a specified period. You can get a consolidated overview of different payroll components such as earnings, deductions for all employees under a legal employer. Using this report, you can identify any discrepancy in earnings or deductions in the payroll run.
60	12.2.6	Payroll	Comply with Budget Changes for 2016-2017	This release complies with the Budget changes for 2016-17 to support the following: Amendment to the Tax Rebate Ceiling Amendment to House Rent Deduction Amendment to Section 80EE for new home buyers Increase in Surcharge Amendment to monetary limit of exemption of Superannuation Fund Taxation of Non-Resident Individuals with no PAN
61	12.2.7	OTL	Use Adjustment of Overtime to Overcome Payroll Period Incompatibility with Time Card Period	With this release, you can adjust weekly overtime for timecards with payroll periods that start at the end of the week. The application automatically adjusts the previous payroll period where overridden hours must be included for weekly overtime cap
62	12.2.7	OTL	Line Manager Time Entry for Terminated Employees	With this release, line managers can make time entries for the terminated employees
63	12.2.7	OTL	Associate Timekeeper Groups with Supervisors	With this release, you can use a new option of HR Supervisor to associate people to the Timekeeper Group along with the existing Assignment Set and Organization options. This enables you to associate all reportees of a selected supervisor to a Timekeeper Group with a single selection
64	12.2.7	OTL	Enabling OTLR for Projects Payroll Integration	With this release, you can use the Oracle Time and Labor Rules (OTLR) engine for work-based Projects timecards. This enables Oracle Projects users to leverage the OTLR functionality to compute elements such as overtime and premium.
65	12.2.7	SSHR	Use Nine Box Talent Matrixes Built on Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF)	With this release, Oracle Self-Service Human Resources makes use of Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) to display the following nine box matrixes on the Talent Profile page of a worker (employee or contingent worker): Potential vs Performance Retention vs Performance Note: Prior to this release, these components were based on the Adobe Flash technology.
66	12.2.7	Payroll	Manage Assignment Set using Web ADI	Prior to this release, users could manage static assignment sets using the Oracle WebADI. Users could download an existing assignment set, make amendments, and then upload the modified assignment set. With this release, users can create and maintain dynamic assignment sets using the Web ADI capabilities. Users can specify the criteria and make amendments to the assignment sets that meet the criteria. Users must ensure to include the Manage Assignment Set Self-service function, PAY_WS_ASGSET in the menu for users to access these integrators.
67	12.2.7	Payroll	Set the Action Parameter - Enable Costing Hierarchy for Balancing Segments from Frontend	The Enable Costing Hierarchy for Balancing Segments action parameter could be set only from the backend. In this release, the application has been enhanced to enable or disable this parameter using the frontend
68	12.2.7	Payroll	Validate Rollback of Transfer to General Ledger Process	The rollback of Transfer to General Ledger process does not validate if the post processes have been run for the batch on the General Ledger side. As a result rollback is allowed for Transfer to General Ledger at any point. The application now validates and restricts the rolling back of the Transfer to General Ledger process, if the transferred data has been imported to Journals in General Ledger.
69	12.2.7	Payroll	New Costing Detail Report (generic)	The Costing Detail Report (PAYRPCDRGL) is now obsolete. Localization users must remove the earlier version of Costing Detail Report (PAYRPCDRGL) from their request group and add the new Costing Detail Report (generic) (PYCDRGEN) to the request group. Additionally, Oracle Payroll delivers an additional parameter, Costing Process in the Costing Detail Report to generate the report based on the costing action along with the date range. The Costing Detail Report (PAYRPCDR) is used for US and Canada localizations and the new Costing Detail Report (generic) (PYCDRGEN) is used for all other localizations
70	12.2.7	Payroll	Record IFSC Code	This release provides the capability to capture the Bank IFSC code for the bank details on personal and organizational payment method forms . This is also available for Electronic Fund Transfer report. The Indian Financial System Code (IFSC) is an eleven character code assigned by RBI to identify every bank branch uniquely and is used by the electronic payment system applications such as RTGS, NEFT, and CFMS
71	12.2.7	Payroll	New Income Tax Register Report	With this release a new Income Tax Register report is provided through Employee Self Service. It shows the details of the salary components with the actual amount paid till current period and the projected salary for remaining pay periods. Similar to Form16, this lists all the allowances. Oracle HRMS for India delivers the new Income Tax Register Report which displays the detailed breakup of the salary components with the actual salary paid till current pay period and the projected salary for the remaining pay periods. The report displays all the allowances exempted under section 10, exemptions under Section 16, and other income details declared by the employee which contribute to the total annual income of the employee.
72	12.2.7	Payroll	Display the Break-up of the Allowances under Section 10 in the Payslip and the SOE Report	Previously, the payslip and the SOE reports displayed only the consolidated amounts of the allowances an employee receives under section 10. These reports did not display the break-up amount of each allowance. The break-up of the individual values for the amount exempted for HRA, Transportation Allowance, Leave Encashment, Leave Travel Concession, and Child Education is beneficial for the auditing purposes. This release facilitates the display of the break-up values of the Allowances Exempted u/s 10 along with the consolidated amount in a new region - Allowance Amount Exempted u/s 10 on the SOE, the payslip, and the pay advice
73	12.2.7	Payroll	Generate Reports using the Assignment Set	In this release, the Assignment Set has been provided as additional parameter to run the concurrent program for selected employees. This is an optional parameter and is now available for following concurrent programs: Electronic Fund Transfer Report (India) Employee Annual Tax Returns (India) End of Year Archival (India) Payroll Reports Archive (India) Provident Fund Monthly Returns Archive (India) Quarterly Returns Archive (India)
74	12.2.7	Payroll	Comply with the SBI Interest Rate Changes for 2016-17	In this release, Oracle HRMS for India complies with the latest interest rates for the purpose of computing perquisite valuation as specified by State Bank of India for the financial year 2016-17 for the following loans: Car Loan Education Loan House Loan Mortgage Loan Personal Loan Two Wheeler Loan
75	12.2.7	Payroll	Comply with the Budget Changes for 2016-2017	The Government of India has proposed the Budget changes effective from April 1, 2016: Amendment to Tax Rebate ceiling Amendment to House Rent deduction Amendment to Section 80EE for new home buyers Increase in Surcharge Amendment to monetary limit of exemption of Superannuation Fund Taxation of non-resident individuals with no PAN The Government of India proposed the changes to the following effective from April 1, 2017: Amendment to Income Tax Rates Amendment to Section 87A - Tax rebate Surcharge Calculations Phasing out section 80CCG Amendment to Section 80G Amendment to Section 71 – Set off Loss from house property Oracle HRMS for India delivers the updated global values, changes to elements, formulas and formula results to comply with these Budget changes
76	12.2.7	Payroll	Record EPS Contribution Age for Employees	The Employee Pension Scheme (EPS) contribution is deducted from the Employer Provident Fund (EPF) contribution, if the employee opts for contribution towards pension. Users can record the EPS contribution age for the employee in the Statutory Details section of the Assignment window. By default, the eligible age for the EPS is 58 years of age, if the value is not set at assignment level. Employees can now choose to continue to contribute towards EPS even beyond 58 years of age. To enable users to record this information, an option Defer Pension Drawing Age is provided so that the EPS contribution can be deducted from their payroll beyond 58 years. The formula IN_PF_CALCULATION has been modified to deduct the EPS contribution according to the setup at assignment level.
77	12.2.7	Payroll	New Rule for ESI Calculations	A new rule has been introduced under the Employee State Insurance (ESI) scheme which states that in the areas where the scheme is implemented for the first time, the employer's contribution and employee’s contribution would be as follows for the initial period of 24 months from the day it has been implemented: Employer contributes 3% of wages payable to the employee. Employee contributes 1% of wages payable to employee. These values are rounded to next higher rupee. After completion of the 24 months, the rate of contribution would be 4.75% in respect of employer and 1.75% in respect of employee. To record the date of the when ESI calculation has been implemented, Oracle HRMS for India introduces a new field ESI Implementation Start Date in the Additional Organization Classification, ESI Org (PER_IN_ESI_DF). When users set this date, the application uses employer’s contribution as 3% of wages payable to the employee and employee’s contribution as 1% of the wages payable to the employee (both rounded to the next higher rupee) until a period of 24 months from the start date. Beyond 24 months, the application uses the rate of contribution as 4.75% for employer contribution and 1.75% for employee contribution for ESI calculations.
78	12.2.7	Payroll	Comply with Changes to ESI Slab Rates	Effective from October 1, 2016, the ESI slab rate has changed from 15000 to 21000. The global value IN_ESI_ELIGIBILITY_WAGE_CEILING has been modified to the latest value of 2100 for processing ESI contributions and calculations.
79	12.2.7	Payroll	New Costing Detail Report (generic)	In this release, the Costing Detail Report (PAYRPCDRGL) or PAYRPCDR has been replaced by the concurrent program Costing Detail Report (generic) (PYCDRGEN). The Costing Detail report provides pertinent costing allocation details at the element and employee level. This report provides a complete representation of the entries transferred to Oracle General Ledger; you can collapse this data to look at the total credit and debit values at the Payroll level. Additionally, you can run this report for a specific costing run.
80	12.2.8	OTL	Use an Additional Parameter Assignment Set in the Transfer Time from OTL to BEE Concurrent Process	With this release, a new parameter Assignment Set is included in the Transfer time from OTL to BEE concurrent process. This enables processing of people belonging to the associated assignment set, and additionaly, movement of timecards to payroll based on assignment sets.
81	12.2.8	OTL	Retrieval Dashboard and Timecard Status Dashboard- Export to all Formats	Prior to this release, in retrieval dashboard and timecard status dashboard timecards could be exported to PDF format only. With this release, timecards can be exported to HTML or RTF or EXCEL along with PDF format.
82	12.2.8	OTL	Option to set Timecard Lock Expiry	With this release, a profile is provided to control the time duration (in minutes) for which the application locks the timecard and timecard period during the timecard creation, approval and retrieval processes. Setting the profile option allows administrators to set the lock expiry time in minutes against the default 30 minutes lock
83	12.2.8	OTL	Access to Timecard Review from Timecard Status Dashboard	With this release, supervisors can access timecard details from the Timecard Status dashboard. A new icon for Timecard details is provided against each timecard, which enables you to open the timecard details in a new page.
84	12.2.8	OTL	Retrieval Dashboard - List Missing Timecards	With this release, functionality is provided for Administrators running Retrieval dashboard to list a possibly missing timecards in the Pre Retrieval tab. Along with a list of possibly missing timecards, functionality is also provided to submit missing timecard report from the Pre Retrieval tab to get a complete list of ‘Not Entered’ timecards
85	12.2.8	OTL	Projects Timecards - Rollback/Reconciliation	With this release, a new function Rollback Timecards from Projects Accounting and a new concurrent program OTL: Rollback Timecards from Projects Accounting are provided to initiate a Rollback of Timecards processed to Projects. The requests can be run in Validate only mode (without committing the rollback) and in Validate and Execute mode (with committing the rollback).
86	12.2.8	OTL	Auto Generate Timecards based on Templates	With this release, a new program OTL: Generate Timecards based on Template is provided to create timecards for a list of employees or contingent workers based on static or dynamic templates. This enables administrators to create large sets of timecards based on available public templates
87	12.2.8	SSHR	Ability to Hire Contact	Previously, it was not possible to hire a contact using the Oracle SSHR’s Hire function due to the duplicate person check. This release provides the ability to hire a contact from the Applicant Hire and Rehire function. A new value "Other" is added to the person type drop-down. By selecting this value, users can search an existing contact and hire the contact as an employee.
88	12.2.8	SSHR	iCalendar Integration for Absences	n this release, notifications are enhanced to contain the .ics file so that the notification receiver can add the file to create an event in their calendar.
89	12.2.8	Payroll	Display Offset Payroll Periods in Payroll Dashboard	Payroll Readiness tab of the Payroll Dashboard displays the assignment activity and payroll readiness details. The details displayed are for the payroll periods where the start date and the end date include the system date. For payrolls with an offset date, the cutoff date for payroll period might be in future even though system date has passed the end date
90	12.2.8	Payroll	Support for Date Picker and SQL based Value Sets in Employee Claims Self-Service Page	Employees submit their claim details for approval using the Employee Claims self-service page. This page displayed Element input values of Date Type and those using SQL-based Value Sets as free text fields. With this release, the Employee Claims self-service page supports Date Picker for Date Type input values and List of Values for input values using SQL-based Value Sets. This feature ensures accuracy of valid entries.
91	12.2.8	Payroll	Run Balance Architecture Diagnostic Report to Display Defined Balances missing Run Defined Balances	Run Balance Architecture Diagnostic Report is useful to determine if there are any invalid run balances or run balances with incorrect dates. With this release, the Run Balance Architecture Diagnostic Report also displays the details of user-created Defined Balances missing corresponding Run Defined Balances. Addition of missing Run Defined Balances and their Run Balance maintenance can provide better performance to processes utilizing these balances.
92	12.2.8	Payroll	Assignment Costing Approvals to use HRSSA Workflow	With this release, Assignment Costing Approvals uses HRSSA workflow instead of its own workflow. This enables the features offered by HRSSA workflow to Assignment Costing Approvals. Approvers can now review and perform updates to the costing details submitted from Assignment Costing self-service page
93	12.2.8	Payroll	Restrict the Usage of COMMIT and ROLLBACK during Fast Formula Execution in Payroll Process	With this release, the usage of COMMIT and ROLLBACK during Fast Formula execution as part of Payroll Process (including Retro Pay) is restricted. The Payroll process raises an error if Formula functions perform COMMIT or ROLLBACK. The restriction is applicable to autonomous transactions also. This restriction prevents the data inconsistencies arising from COMMIT or ROLLBACK operations, performed at Formula Function leve
94	12.2.8	Payroll	Display Check Number in Costing of Payment Detail Report	Costing of Payment Detail Report displays assignment level details of costing of each payment. With this release, the report displays check number information for the applicable payments. This feature is helpful in reconciling the details with the Cleared Transactions report from Cash Management. If a check payment has been made void and then repaid using a different check, then the report displays only a valid check payment. Void check payments are not displayed in the report.
95	12.2.8	Core HR	Reallocate Donated Budget to a Recipient Position	Oracle HR Budgeting enables you to reallocate control budget resources from one line item to another, as you identify excess and deficit amounts. However, prior to this release budgets were successfully reallocated but budgets did not reflect in the Budgets tab of the donor and recipient positions in the Position window. With this release, enhancement is made so that budget values are reflected in the Position window, Budget tab of donor and recipient positions. Note that reallocated budget values are not reflected for grade and job.
96	12.2.8	Core HR	Allocate Checklists and Tasks Process to Skip Errors	The “Allocated Checklists and Task Process” concurrent program is a process to identify any checklist life events that have not yet been processed. For each life event, the process allocates the checklist to the person and builds the list of checklist tasks based on the eligibility profiles. Currently, this concurrent program retrieves all the identified events at the Pending status and processes them one by one. However, if the processing encounters an error, it stops further execution without processing the rest of the events. In this release, ability is provided to process further without stopping if an error occurs and proceed to identify other errors if any. In such cases, the concurrent program ends with a warning status
97	12.2.8	Payroll	Generate Form 12BB Report	The Form12BB report is a statutory report that acts as a proof for the employee tax declarations submitted in the assessment year. Oracle delivers a new concurrent program Generate Form 12BB to enable users to produce this report.
98	12.2.8	Payroll	Support Multiple Landlord Details in House Rent Information	The landlord details are recorded in the House Rent details section of the Tax Declaration page. This information is used in the statutory reports and employers submit the data to the Income Tax authorities. Currently, employees can only view and update the landlord information of the current landlord. In scenarios, when employees reside in different houses and have multiple landlords, they are unable to enter, view, or change the information for multiple landlords. This feature enables employees to enter, change, and view the rent details for multiple landlords within the financial year. If the house rent declaration was made previously using the element - House Rent Information, then users must run the Generic Upgrade program - Update Landlord Information to migrate the existing landlord data from the element - House Rent Information to the new element Landlord Information
99	12.2.8	Payroll	Report Income Tax Breakup Section in SOE	This feature displays the employee tax breakup details in the SOE report. New region Employee Tax Components has been added to the SOE. This region contains Description, Total amount, Paid YTD, and Balance YTD for Income Tax break up.
100	12.2.8	Payroll	Support Electronic Challan Cum Return (ECR) (version 2)	ECR is a mandatory file to be submitted online by the employer to EPFO every month. Oracle delivers a new concurrent program India Electronic Challan Cum Return. This program generates either an e-text or a PDF version depending on whether users select the ECR (regular contribution) or the Arrears report. The ECR version 2 is based on UAN. UAN, Gross Wages, EDLI Wages, and Arrears EDLI Wages have been introduced as part of ECR V2. ECR V2 serves an audit report to view the ECR and the arrears values in the PDF format.
101	12.2.8	Payroll	Calculate Provident Fund for International Workers	Effective 01-Oct-2008, special provisions have been given to international workers in terms of EPS, EPF, and EDLI contribution calculations. Oracle now enables users to calculate provident fund for international workers. Users can configure an employee as an International Worker in the PF/EPS contribution field under the Assignment Statutory Information window. The fast formula has been modified to calculate the PF contribution.
102	12.2.8	Payroll	Prorate Income Tax using Projected Termination Date	ncome tax projections for terminated employees are based on the financial year end date if the actual termination date of the employee has not been entered. This date is usually entered after the termination is confirmed by the employee. The application now enables users to consider the employee’s projected termination date instead of the actual termination date so that the tax projection and refund is minimal. Oracle delivers a new profile option IN:Projection on Projected Termination Date to check if a projected termination date exists and the actual termination date has not been entered.
103	12.2.8	Payroll	Search Payroll in Tax Declaration Page	The existing Tax Declaration Search page does not allow users to search for employees based on their payroll. Due to this, the payroll administrator cannot view or modify the employee tax declaration data based on their payroll. In this release, the Tax Decalaration page has been enhanced to enable users to search employees based on their payroll.
104	12.2.8	Payroll	Copy Previous Year Tax Declaration in Employee Self-Service	This feature enables employees to copy their previous year’s tax data to the current financial year using the Employee self-service interface. This feature is enabled only if there is no declaration for the current financial year.
105	12.2.8	Payroll	Ensure Security using Password for Form16, Form12BB, and Payslip	The Form16, Form12BB reports and payslip contain employee compensation related information which is sensitive and confidential. These reports are now password protected to ensure security. Users can configure the password for each of these reports at the business group level using the new descriptive flexfield Password Setup for Reports
106	12.2.8	Payroll	Comply with Statutory Updates	Oracle delivers the following statutory updates: Changes to Karnataka Labour Welfare Fund effective from April 1, 2017 Changes to SBI interest rates for perquisite valuation effective April 1, 2017 Budget changes for 2017-18: Amendment to Income Tax Rates Section 87A - Amendment to Tax Rebate Amendment to Surcharge Calculation Amendment to section 71 - Set off loss from house property changes Amendment to section 80CCG Amendment to section 80G Amendment to PF and EDLI Administration Charges
107	12.2.8	Payroll	Generate Form 24Q Excel Report	The Annual TDS Return Report is an e-text file specified by the Income tax department that must be submitted by the employer every quarter. The file contains raw data that cannot be verified by the payroll administrator. This release delivers the Annual TDS Report in a spreadsheet format for easy reconciliation and verification of data before submitting to Income Tax department.
108	12.2.9	Payroll	Use the Increased Payroll Action ID	The PAY_PAYROLL_ACTIONS table has a precision set as 9 digits for PAYROLL_ACTION_ID column. There are some other tables which record PAYROLL_ACTION_ID value with precision set as 9. If the PAYROLL_ACTION_ID value was greater than the PAYROLL_ACTION_ID column size, users could not perform any payroll processing. To resolve the issue, the precision of PAYROLL_ACTION_ID column has been increased to 15 from 9. Oracle recommends using the PAYROLL_ACTION_ID%TYPE instead of hardcoding size for variables to adopt to the changes made to Table column size.
109	12.2.9	Payroll	De-support the All Balances Mode in Generate Run Balances at Assignment Level	The concurrent program Generate Run Balances supports generation of run balances with different modes - a single balance, all balances, and all invalid balances at the assignment and the group levels. When you run the program accidently or without any valid justification using the All Balances mode for assignment level, it takes considerable time to complete based on the amount of data. Additionally, if the start date is not provided, then the process generates run balances from the start of time (01-JAN-0001) which is time consuming. To prevent the Run Generate Balances process from being run for all balances at the assignment level, Oracle provides a profile option PAY: Allow All Balances for Assignment Level. If this profile is not set, then it is considered as No. To run the Generate Run Balance process at assignment level and in All Balance mode, users can set it to Yes.
110	12.2.9	Payroll	New Transfer to GL Detail Report	The Transfer to GL Detail Report reconciles the data processed by the Transfer to GL process back to the relevant run results that were costed for the employee. The report consolidate data from Payroll to the GL interface by means of the Transfer to GL process. The report details at ledger level and then displays by employee name, element name, and costed amount for reconciliation purposes
111	12.2.9	Payroll	Prevent Duplicate Retro Entries on Migration from RetroPay by Element to Enhanced RetroPay	Duplicate Retropay entries get created because the Legislation rule RETRO_TU_CONTEXT is set as Y for legislations while their business groups have the data in PAY_ENTRY_PROCESS_DETAILS table without TAX_UNIT_ID details With the Legislation Rule RETRO_TU_CONTEXT set as Y, the application expects TAX_UNIT_ID to be present in PAY_ENTRY_PROCESS_DETAILS. Absence of this information results in creation of duplicate entries. Populating TAX_UNIT_ID column of PAY_ENTRY_PROCESS_DETAILS with required information will resolve this issue. For localizations such as Australia, China, Korea, and Singapore with the Legislation Rule RETRO_TU_CONTEXT as Y, users must ensure that the TAX_UNIT_ID column of PAY_ENTRY_PROCESS_DETAILS table is populated with applicable value, when they migrate to Enhanced Retropay from Retropay by Element.
112	12.2.9	Core HR	Send Confirmation Email for Information Updates	In this release, administrators have the ability to configure the system to send a confirmation email to the person for whom there are changes in the person attributes in Oracle Human Resources (Oracle HR), Oracle Self-Service Human Resources (Oracle SSHR) or both.
113	12.2.9	Core HR	Use Eligibility Criteria for Checklists	In the release, the ability of associating eligibility criteria at the checklist level is provided. With this, users need not associate eligibility criteria for each task. The eligibility criteria at checklist level will be propagated to all corresponding tasks. User can still assign additional eligibility at the task level if separate criteria is required for a task. Furthermore, now assignment tables can also be used to define life events for checklists. Task level messages are also provided for administrators, in case they want to provide instructions to the managers
114	12.2.9	Core HR	Synchronize Person Email ID and FND User Email	Now, whenever there is a change in the person email ID in the Core HR records, it will be synchronized in the FND user email. In this way consistent mail ID can be maintained in between the two areas.
115	12.2.9	Core HR	Human Resources Command Center	The Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework provides a rich set of components with interactive search support and display capabilities using metrics, graphs, and charts.
116	12.2.9	Payroll	Comply with the India Budget changes for the Financial Year 2019-20	Amendment to Section 16 - Standard Deduction - A standard deduction of fifty thousand rupees or the amount of the salary, whichever is less, is allowed for the purpose of computing the income chargeable under the head salaries.Oracle complies with this change. Amendment to Section 87A – Tax Rebate Oracle delivers the changes to the section 87A of the Income-tax Act by increasing the maximum amount of tax rebate from the existing two thousand five hundred rupees. Users can have a tax rebate to a total income up to five hundred thousand rupees, instead of the existing three hundred fifty thousand rupees. The tax rebate is extended and there is no change to the tax slab or tax rate.
117	12.2.9	Payroll	Changes to Tax Declaration in Employee Self-Service Pages	Copy Previous Year Tax Declaration in Employee Self-Service Users can now copy their previous year’s tax data to the current financial year quickly if there are no declaration changes for the current financial year. Search by Payroll in the Tax Declaration Page Users can now specify the payroll to search for employees and their tax details on the Tax Declaration page. An additional parameter Payroll has been added to the Search Tax Declaration page in the Professional User self-service interface.
118	12.2.9	Payroll	Record the Loss on House Property of Previous FY Loss using the Web-ADI Interface	Users can now record the Loss on House Property from Previous FY in the spreadsheet and upload using Web-ADI using a new column
119	12.2.9	Payroll	Comply with the Income Tax Register for India FY 2018-19	Users can use the updated Income Tax Register that includes the following changes: Loss from House Property from Previous Financial Year Education Cess of 4% and removal of Sec and HE Cess Standard Deduction of 40,000 Section 80TTA and 80TTB Conveyance Allowances Medical Reimbursement Updates to Section 80D and 80DDB
120	12.2.9	Payroll	Comply with Changes to 24Q	The Form 24Q is compliant with version 5.6 for Q1 to Q3 and version 6.1 for Q4 and validates successfully by FVU version 5.6. The FastFormula IN_FORM24Q_BATCH_HEADER is updated to reflect these changes.
121	12.2.9	Payroll	Comply with Budget Changes for Financial Year 2018-2019	Oracle HRMS (India) delivers the changes to the Budget changes for the financial year 2018-19: Introduction of Standard Deduction Amendment to section 10 - Conveyance allowance Amendment to section 17 - Medical Reimbursement Amendment to Income Tax Cess Amendment to section 80D Amendment to section 80DDB Amendment to section 80TTA and 80TTB Amendment to section 71 - Carry forward of loss from house property Amendment to Payment of Gratuity Act
122	12.2.9	SSHR	Update or Delete Approved and Started Leave of Absence	This release provides the ability to users to update or delete absences that are approved and started.
123	12.2.10	OTL	Query Timecard Status Dashboard by Organization	With this release, administrators can query the timecards with different status within an organizational hierarchy or by a selected organization within the hierarchy. From the search result administrators can drill down to view individual timecards and its details.
124	12.2.10	OTL	Query Timecards as Read-Only after Final Process Date	With this release, you have the ability to define a timekeeper group consisting of terminated employees or contingent workers. This group can be used to query for the timecards belonging to the terminated employees or contingent workers. Please note that these timecards will be in read-only mode
125	12.2.10	SSHR	Make Attachments Mandatory for an Absence Type	Using the Absence Attendance Type window in Oracle HRMS, you can make attachments mandatory for an absence type. An option “Require Attachment” is provided in the Further Absence Type Information in the Absence Attendance Type window. Values for this option are Yes and No. If you want to enforce mandatory attachments for an absence type, then this option must to be set to ‘Yes”. If you set up this feature, then when managers or workers enter absences for those absences types using the Employee Self-Service or the Manager Self-Service responsibility, they must upload supporting documents. Otherwise, the application will display an error. Note: The mandatory attachment rule is enforced only for self-service users when they enter absences for that specific absence type using the Manager Self-Service and the Employee Self-Service responsibilities. This feature is not available in Oracle HRMS Absence Management and Absence-OTL Integration.
126	12.2.10	Payroll	New API to Update Processing Dates	The Offset fields in the Payroll Description window are currently non-updateable to extend number of years of a payroll or to change any incorrect date when a payroll has been created. To change the offset dates, you must create a new payroll each time or manually enter the time periods, which is very time consuming. You can use new API, PER_TIME_PERIODS_API to facilitate changing the offset time period dates quickly. The API is used only to adjust these dates. The field Number of Years field operates as before but when you change the number of years, the new feature allows the offset fields to be updateable.in order to effect any change to these values to reflect in the new periods created. Prior to this enhancement, even a change on the Number of Years field, the offset fields remained fixed and non-updateable.
127	12.2.10	Payroll	Deliver Core Payroll Reports as BI Publisher Reports	Oracle Payroll delivers the following reports as BI Publisher reports instead of RDF.
128	12.2.10	Payroll	Employee Self-Service Payment Methods Supports Future Dated Updates	You can change the payment method in the current period after a prepayment has been run if you have set the profile option, PAY: Allow Paymethod Changes after Prepayments to Yes. This release allows you to make changes to the payment method from the next payroll instead of the current period using the profile option, PAY: Enable Pay Method Changes in Next Pay Period after Prepayments. You must also set the profile option, PAY:Allow Paymethod Changes after Prepayments to No for this profile option to make the change.