Version 15.8.07 Corrections
The following Defects have now been addressed and resolved successfully.
Administration

75057
The Base Rate Equivalent as at date field in the Salary screen will now display the correct effective start date value for an employee with a Salary Code attached. This improves the information displayed in the scenario where the Salary Code has had a rate change, since the date the Salary Code was effectively dated on the employee.

73696
The Certification Gap extractor now displays and generates records for past positions correctly.

74428
The Company Transfer process now correctly carries forward the Contract Paid Amount of the employee to the new active version of the employee.

68553
An error message will no longer display when Mapper M000222E is submitted to change an employee to a Position that contains Payroll Defaults; where the defaults have no Salary Code/Pay Rate information.
Successfully accepted Mapper records will now update changes on the correct effective date and rejected Mapper records will not perform any updates. An error message on Mapper Summary Report will only appear when applicable.

73148
As the character length limit for Salary Codes has since been increased from 4 to 10, this has now been corrected so that a maximum of 10 characters can be entered into this field via Extractor.

74412
As the character length limit for Salary Codes has since been increased from 4 to 10, this has now been corrected so that a maximum of 10 characters can be entered into this field via Extractor.

72618
Employees being hired with a Future hire date into a Position using Payroll Defaults will now correctly apply the Average Hours Rules; if configured in the defaults.

70984
When a past effective dated transaction is saved, the Effective Date field in the Maintenance History Drilldown screen will now show the correct actual effective date of the record.

74825
When a past effective dated transaction is saved, the Effective Date field in the Maintenance History Drilldown screen will now show the correct actual effective date of the record.

73512
Post Code field should be always editable regardless of the value of the State/Code. Thus, if a record is assigned a value of 11, the Post Code will no longer be updated to 9999 and be locked. Users will now be able to edit it as expected.

53684
Changes in Salary Code are now correctly reflected in the employee's current salary record and corresponding files. The Employee Masterfile is now updated when the Salary Code used by the employee is updated and the update affects their current salary record.

72325
When deleting the historical Salary Code for an employee from the Service Hours window, the Service Hours Details records will now also be removed accordingly. The delete function has a consistent behavior between the current and non-current records. This eliminates problems with reusing the same Salary Code, and expecting the service hours count to start over.

74848
Changes made via Mapper to an employee's STP Employment Basis now correctly updates their Tax Treatment Code information accordingly.
Framework

72128
The password that is automatically generated when the Reset Password process is triggered has been corrected to no longer use the ‘ character when found in the employee's name. The automated password will now just use a random 10 character instead so no error will occur when user uses it in the Reset User screen.

67303
When the Primary Manager approves a leave request, the Secondary Manager (with delegation enabled) will no longer receive an email advising them of the primary manager's approval. The delegation process is now correct so when the Primary Manager approves application, only the employee receives the email verifying approval.
Organisational Management

68852
Mapper M000084 showed an error message after successfully updating some Organisation Units, advising that the record could not be found. Changes have been made to the creation and updating of Organisation Units, which will reduce or eliminate the scenario leading to the incorrect error message being displayed.
Payroll

74366
When an employee on a Work Pattern with 0 hours has an effective dated change in the pay period, the standard recurring Allow/Deduct codes will no longer be dropped. The Pay Period will display the Standard A/Ds accordingly.

64724
If an A/D was entered in express pay Detail Entry screen, and the A/D had previously existed with a value that is the same as the data entry value, the A/D was not being paid via the express payment. This has been corrected to ensure that all Allow/Deduct records are paid accordingly via Express Pay/Termination Wizard.

74232
The Allow/Deduct Rules will now be applied accordingly if the A/D for the employee has an effective dated split during the pay period due to maintenance changes. There will no longer be partial deductions processed when set not to on the Allow/Deduct Code as the system has been corrected to use the original value of the A/D before splitting instead of treating each generated entry individually. Employees will now receive the correct payment.

74917
The AU Year End Reconciliation process now correctly handles negative Year to Date (YTD) values when Allowances/Deductions are set to be reported separately. The Taxable Allowance is now subtracted from Gross whether it is a negative or positive value; thus, the YTD Status window will no longer show an out of balance in this scenario.

75576
Saving of changes to the Payrun Header have been improved to prevent updates while the payroll is in progress. This will no longer be allowed, as expected.

59459
An email pay slip will now be correctly generated when there is a costing adjustment for an employee. The employee with the costing adjustment will receive their pay slip through email as expected.

60409
Under some rare circumstances, overrides entered against an employee's pay slip or data entry transactions was not being cleared successfully during the Close Payrun process. This has been corrected to ensure that details from processed pay slips will no longer be retained in Entry via Single Screen (EvSS), Overrides and Prepay/Rebank Entry screens.

54648
The error message "Hours entered...more than Scheduled Hours..." on Entry via Single Screen was being displayed incorrectly for some employees with historical versions on different Base Hours to the current version. This has been corrected to ensure that the message is only presented when the hours entered exceed the employee's current Base Hours value.

61496
When using the View Selected Pay slip button, the Pay slip information of an employee with existing multiple historical payments containing the same dates and values will now correctly display.

72577
The Period End Non-Contributory Report is now arranged in a correct sequence according to Program Control A442, and the Standard Amount % now has the correct value and will not display the ID Number of the employee. All other values are now correctly displayed as expected.

74447
The Retro Pay process results were not as expected for an employee who had been through a company transfer which also included a change of pay frequency. This has now been corrected to ensure that the pay frequency of the employee is correctly identified for each historical period included in the Retro.

73989
When the Roster assigned to the employee is changed via the Time Details screen, the information available in the Individual Primary Rosters screen & Extractor reports now updates accordingly. The new Roster information should now be displayed correctly, with details from the previous Roster Code related to the updated effective period removed.

72323
When a User changed Payrun Environments after submitting the Generate Retro Pays process, but before the process had been completed, the process may not have produced any results. This has been corrected to ensure that changing Payrun Environments during or before the Generate Retro Pays process start will no longer disrupt the retro pay generation so the necessary retro pay will be successfully generated.

2415
All Express Payments can now be processed successfully. The loss of linkage record error presented when trying to process certain Express Payments has now been fixed.

74775
The Leave Units Taken will now correctly display a negative value when the related Time Code Maintenance record is set with "Negative Value" = 'Y' and "Leave Units Processing" = 'Y' (Value equals 1). Additionally, the Pro-rata calculation will now be more accurate.

73507
The Reconciliation MEC Report will now display the User, Date, and Time information correctly.

66579
Retro will now correctly reverse and recalculate over an Express Payment with leave.

59490
Under some rare circumstances, certain details used in the SGC calculation for an employee were not being cleared before the next employee's calculations were performed. This has been resolved to ensure that all information pertaining to previous employees is cleared, before commencing an employee's SGC calculations.

70901
The termination payment's tax calculation for the new Financial Year (FY) is now correct even when the current FY earning is zero. In this scenario Preceda looks at the previous FY earnings to properly calculate the average weekly earnings required for tax calculations.