Por Julie Alonso
Product Management Director
Oracle PeopleSoft HCM Strategy
Hola a todos,
A continuación mi resumen mensual de actualización sobre PeopleSoft HR correspondiente al mes de enero 2017.
-Julie
Upcoming Conferences: If you love Las Vegas as much as me, then the next 2 conferences are for
youJ
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Alliance
(Higher
Education/Public Sector) – February 27–March 3; Las Vegas, NV
Customer Corner - I want to highlight the great accomplishments our HR Focus
Group Customers have done this monthJ. If your organization has done something
great (upgraded, deployed fluid/new functionality) please let me know so you can get your
well deserved recognition.
HR Focus Group Updates: Thank you to all the customers who volunteered
to participate in the focus group
- Guided Self Service (GSS) Focus Group - New &
Improved Manager Self Service – In Image 21 (posted 1/2017) we delivered ability two new transactions
“Request Leave of Absence and Request Unpaid Leave”. Focus Group also provided feedback on
the new clone “position” transaction and recommended having a separate “create
new position” feature.
- Global HR Focus Group – No update this month
- Onboarding/Offboarding Focus Group – Continuing development on onboarding as well
as activity guide composer the underling framework that will be utilized by
onboarding. We will be meeting in February to discuss off boarding and
look at the high level requirements. Still looking for feedback on
template assignments from the group, if you have any thoughts or want to give
feedback please email Jeremy.Pelley@oracle.com by end of
week. If you haven’t got onboard with this focus group now is a great
time to join.
- Employee Snapshot Focus Group – Employee Snapshot is continuing
the build out of functionality. We will be looking at designs for use of
Employee Snapshot with non-ePerformance customers (customers who use a third
party or cloud based performance management system, but still want to use
employee snapshot). If you are interested in giving input in this area
please contact Jeremy (Jeremy.pelley@oracle.com)
- Profile Management Focus Group –Focus Group met and looked at the priorities
for the coming year. Next steps are to engage development in looking at
design options. The group will not meet in February, but will have
our next meeting in March to discuss feedback from development.
- Position Management Focus Group – Focus Group met and development
has started on the prioritized requests that were discussed in the
meeting. We will be meeting once again, once preliminary designs come
back from development. ***NEW*** We are also looking for organizations who use commitment accounting &
position management. We are interested in enhancements you
developed/enhancements you would like to see delivered. If you are
interested contact Jeremy (Jeremy.pelley@oracle.com)
- ePerformance– Development has been working on enhancements
to ePerformance and we will be sharing some designs and new features during our
February call. If you are interested contact Jeremy (Jeremy.pelley@oracle.com)
- PII (Personally Identifiable Info) Focus Group ***NEW*** PII refers
to ‘sensitive data’ like National ID/SSN, DOB, Address…Currently, HCM does not deliver functionality to hide/mask these fields
and we are considering developing an enhancement based on customer
interest and requirements. If you would to participate please email
me (Julie.alonso@oracle.com). First call will be scheduled in
February
- Federal U.S. Focus Group (Federal customers only) - ***NEW*** Focus Group will review and provide
feedback on new USF features (ex. PAR transactions & more). If you
are interested contact Venky (venkatesh.kotikalapudi@oracle.com).
***Important Note*** Focus Groups are open to all
customers, calls are typically once a month for an hour or as needed.
Your organization needs to have a current CPCA (customer participation
confidentiality agreement) since Oracle discloses future design and
prototypes. Email me if you are interested in any of the above focus
groups.
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United States – A special posting for the PeopleSoft
Affordable Care Act functionality
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United States - The revised Form I-9 is effective January 21,
2017, special posting to deliver the new form
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United States – OFFCP’s Form 503 (self-identification for
disability) was updated with a new effective date 1/31/2020, update
instructions posted to Oracle Knowledge Center.
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Spain - Oracle has delivered last Tax Update for 2016 (#8) containing the
changes to comply with the technical requirements for the reporting of Model
190 for 2016 for those fiscal territories
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Spain - Tax Agency has already published the new algorithm for the
calculation of tax percentage (IRPF) for 2017
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Australia - The Australian Government Department of Human Services has set a
minimum amount that must remain in a person’s wage after tax and child support
have been deducted
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Australia -The parliament of Commonwealth of Australia introduced Working Holiday
Makers Reforms Bill 2016 during the month of December.
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Malaysia - IRB of Malaysia has released the ITRF program for year of remuneration
2016.
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New Zealand - The Inland Revenue Department of New Zealand
has released Statutory changes effective 1st of April 2017
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France - The French Government as part of their routine annual legislative
updates has announced changes to Illness Rates, Fillon Reduction and a few
others
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India - As per the Gazette notification released during the last week of
December 2016 the increase in monthly ESI wage limit (from Rs 15,000 to Rs
21,000) with effect from 1st October 2016 will now come to effect from Jan 1,
2017
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Hong Kong - The Chief Executive in Council has adopted the recommendation of the
Minimum Wage Commission of Hong Kong to raise the Statutory Minimum Wage rate
(SMW) to $34.5 per hour
HR Bundles/PUM Update – tentative dates
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9.1 – Bundle #24 scheduled for May 5
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9.2 – Image #22 scheduled for April 21
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9.2 – Image #23 scheduled for July 14
PeopleSoft General Update –
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New PeopleSoft Talk – In this episode, Marc talks with
Rebekah Jackson, VP, PeopleSoft Applications Strategy, about delivered
functionality and what's ahead for 2017. https://youtu.be/EPKuSNaRa7s (this is great video,
one of my favorites)
