PeopleSoft Monthly HR Update for June 2018 by Julie Alonso

Por Julie Alonso
Product Management Director
Oracle PeopleSoft HCM Strategy 

Hello Everyone,

Here is the PeopleSoft Monthly HR Update for June 2018.   Important Update to Oracle Lifetime Support for PeopleSoft -  Understand the recent changes to Oracle’s support policies mean to you and Oracle’s ongoing commitment to PeopleSoft - https://youtu.be/mptZGpTLhIs

Have a nice day,

Julie

Upcoming Major 2018 Conferences:

• RECONNECT July 17 – 19; Chicago, IL
• Ohio Regional User Group  August 23, 2018, Columbus, OH

• Oracle Open World October 22-25; San Francisco, CA .  We are looking for customers interested in sharing their stories at OOW, if interested contact Robbin (robbin.velayedam@oracle.com)
• UK Apps 2018 - December 3 -5; Liverpool, England

Customer Corner - I want to highlight the great accomplishments our HR Focus Group Customers have done in May J.  If your organization has done something great (upgraded, deployed fluid/new functionality) please let me know so you can get your well-deserved recognition.

Focus Group Updates:  Thank you to all the customers who volunteered to participate in the focus group.  If you are interested - Click this link for list of HCM Focus Groups 

• Global HR – The team is working on the online version of the sensitive/personal fields identification feature.  We currently offer a spreadsheet version.
• Company Directory -  On the last focus group call, we demonstrated some planned enhancements such as displaying vacant positions, position title displaying, and export functionality for feedback from customers.
• Onboarding - Work continues with off-boarding.  We reviewed high level designs this month with the focus group and we will continue to refine them over the coming weeks.
• ePerformance – The enhanced notifications feature allowing for peers, reviewers, and employees to be auto-notified when due dates are approaching will be reviewed by the focus group.  We are also looking for feedback from customer who would like mobile capabilities in ePerformance. 
• Employee Snapshot – Under development is a new ELM (Learning) tile integration for the Employee Snapshot page.
• Profile Management – No update at this time.  Our next meeting is scheduled for August. 
• HR Help Desk – The group has been reviewing two features in particular:  The attachments feature on Fluid Self-service and the Fluid Case Triage dashboard for Administrators.  The Fluid Case Triage dashboard will provide a complete fluid experience for HR HelpDesk agents to efficiently prioritize and manage their assigned cases.

***Important Note*** Focus Groups are open to all customers, calls are typically once a month for an hour or as needed.  Your organization needs to have a current CPCA (customer participation confidentiality agreement) since Oracle discloses future design and prototypes. 

 USA/Global Legislative Updates – https://blogs.oracle.com/PsftLegUpdates/

• ALL Countries - Data Privacy Update – new features delivered in image 26 - Acknowledgement Framework and Sensitive Data Masking
• Spain – Social Security has published RED Bulletin 01 and 02 for 2018. They include, among others, new requirements to communicate part time employees with concentrate schedule
• France - The French Government set up an Agirc-Arrco regime, no longer including categorical references, incorporating the rights and obligations of AGIRC and ARRCO, which revolves around two tranches of contributions
• China - Changes to 2018 social insurance for Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin regions have been announced and the solution delivery timeline for these changes has been updated in our position statement
• U.S.A –Oregon H.B. 2017 (enacted in October 2017) established a new Oregon Statewide Transit Tax, which employers are required to deduct from wages beginning July 1, 2018
• U.S.A - Patches are now available for state withholding changes for Idaho and New Mexico
• Australia - Following the budget announcement by the Government of Western Australia, the Department of Finance published Amendments to The Pay-roll Tax Act 2002 and Pay-roll Tax Assessment Act 2002 establishing a tiered payroll tax scale

 PeopleSoft Update

• HCM  Image #27/Tax Update 18-C – posting July 13, 2018 - tentative dates
• ELM Image 18 – posting September 14, 2018 - tentative dates
• CRM Image 16 – posting October 26, 2018 - tentative dates

PeopleSoft General Update:

• In this episode, Marc talks with Paco Aubrejuan, Senior Vice President, Applications Development, and Mary June Dorsey, Vice President, Customer Support, PeopleSoft, about Oracle's support policy for PeopleSoft - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mptZGpTLhIs&feature=youtu.be

• Now showing in the Oracle Learning Library, the PeopleSoft Spotlight Series: Developing Fluid Applications PeopleSoft Spotlight Series: Developing Fluid Applications video. This video covers the following: Fluid User Interface Overview, Understanding Fluid Application Development, Creating Fluid Pages, Creating and Registering Fluid Components, Touching Up Fluid Applications & Additional Resources