Oracle Workforce Rewards Cloud

Release 12
New Feature Summary
December 2016

TABLE OF CONTENTS
REVISION HISTORY ............................................................................................................................................. 3
OVERVIEW ......................................................................................................................................................... 4
COMPENSATION ................................................................................................................................................ 5
COMPENSATION AND TOTAL COMPENSATION STATEMENT ................................................................................................5
View Salary Components ................................................................................................................................................... 5
Route Individual Compensation Approvals Based on Salary .............................................................................................. 5
Workforce Compensation Notification Personalization..................................................................................................... 5

BENEFITS ........................................................................................................................................................... 6
BENEFITS .............................................................................................................................................................................6
Benefits Billing ................................................................................................................................................................... 6
Improved Self Service Benefits Pages ................................................................................................................................ 6

PAYROLL ............................................................................................................................................................ 7
GLOBAL PAYROLL ................................................................................................................................................................7
Calculate Accrual Balances in a Payroll Flow...................................................................................................................... 7
PAYROLL FOR CHINA ...........................................................................................................................................................8
Nontaxable Employee and Employer Contribution Threshhold Amounts ......................................................................... 8
PAYROLL FOR KUWAIT ........................................................................................................................................................9
Social Insurance 2015 Enhancement ................................................................................................................................. 9
Electronic Fund Transfer Template Update ....................................................................................................................... 9
Payroll Cycle Flow Update ................................................................................................................................................. 9
Report 56 Enhancement .................................................................................................................................................... 9
COUNTRY SUPPORT FOR PAYROLL INTERFACE ..................................................................................................................10

France ................................................................................................................................................................. 10
New Calculation Card: Hardship Factor ........................................................................................................................... 10
Statutory Deduction Calculation Card Enhancement ...................................................................................................... 10
Pension and Welfare Calculation Card Enhancement...................................................................................................... 10

WORKFORCE REWARDS TRANSACTIONAL BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE .................................................................. 11

Enhancements for Compensation ...................................................................................................................... 11
New Sample Compensation Analyses .............................................................................................................................. 11

Enhancements for Benefits ................................................................................................................................ 11

New Dimension: Open Enrollments and Benefit Legal Disclaimer................................................................................... 11
New Dimension: Benefit Person Habits ........................................................................................................................... 11

Enhancements for Payroll .................................................................................................................................. 12

New Subject Area: Payroll Balances Real Time ................................................................................................................ 12

REVISION HISTORY
This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All
updates are logged below, with the most recent updates at the top.
Date
16 JAN 2016
05 DEC 2016

Whats Changed
Oracle Fusion Benefits: Benefits Billing

Notes
Added new feature information
delivered in Rel 12 base release.
Initial Document Creation

OVERVIEW
Oracle HCM Cloud release documents are delivered in five functional groupings:
Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

HCM Cloud Common Features (This document pertains to all HCM applications. It is the
base human resource information for all products and HCM Tools.)

Global Human Resources Cloud (Global Human Resources contains the base application in
which other application use for common data such as workforce structures and person
information. Regardless of what products you have implemented you may want to see the
new features for Global Human Resources that could impact your products.)

NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for the base Talent and Compensation stand
alone applications.
Optional Reading for HCM Products (Depending on what products are in your cloud service):

Talent Management Cloud (All Talent applications)

Workforce Rewards Cloud (Compensation, Benefits, Payroll and Global Payroll Interface)

Workforce Management Cloud (Absence Management and Time and Labor)

Additional Optional Reading:

Common Technologies and User Experience (This documents the common features across
all Cloud applications and is not specific to HCM)

NOTE: All of these documents can be found on the Oracle Help Center at:
https://cloud.oracle.com/saasreadiness/hcm under Human Capital Management Release Readiness.

COMPENSATION
COMPENSATION AND TOTAL COMPENSATION STATEMENT
Oracle Fusion Compensation enables your organization to plan, allocate, and communicate
compensation using the most complete solution in the market. Make better business decisions using
embedded analytics and a total compensation view of workers, regardless of geographic location or pay
package components.
VIEW SALARY COMPONENTS
View salary components from read only pages, such as compensation history, My Information, and My
Team Compensation, when a workers salary basis is configured to use components to itemize the salary
adjustment. Previously, read-only pages did not display components when a workers salary basis used
components.
ROUTE INDIVIDUAL COMPENSATION APPROVALS BASED ON SALARY
Route approvals for individual compensation awards using the attributes of the workers salary record in
the approval rule.
WORKFORCE COMPENSATION NOTIFICATION PERSONALIZATION
Personalize workforce compensation notifications. Administrators can now using the Oracle page
Composer, selectively show and hide various components of the notification, including fields, labels, and
regions. They can also edit labels, colors, and the page layout and add custom text and external links to
the page.

BENEFITS
BENEFITS
Oracle Fusion Benefits is a complete, configurable and flexible global solution that enables organizations
to successfully evolve and adapt to the unique needs of their workforce. The solution enables setup of
traditional 'one-size fits all' plans to highly complex plans that selectively target different workforce
segments with different benefit packages. Self-service capabilities present the user with an out of the
box intuitive guided enrollment process with contextual information and embedded analytics.
BENEFITS BILLING
Enable your benefits administrators to bill retirees, dependents or employees on unpaid leave of
absence directly for benefit plan costs instead of charging through the payroll deduction process.
Prepare and generate charges in bulk or individually, depending on the numbers involved. This flexibility
enables administrators to generate the first charges for an individual. They can then ensure that the
details are correct before handling all subsequent charges via the bulk processes.
Once payment is received you can record payments, including exact payments, under or over payments,
and even several payments against the same bill. The application handles these different scenarios by
subtracting or adding the under or overpaid amounts to the next charges and bill generated. The
application settles the oldest bills first, and the highest cost option, which is most likely Medical, until it
has allocated the payment made fully. You can even record payment without a bill being previously
generated, and make manual adjustments.
IMPROVED SELF SERVICE BENEFITS PAGES
Help participants through the enrollments process more easily. Filters can be configured on train stops
to enable participants to quickly see which plans and options are appropriate to them and hide the ones
that aren't. Information icons are now available in each train stop to enable participants to make more
in-depth enrollment decisions. Participants can also click the Select buttons or the triangular expansion
widgets alongside the plan names to display any additional rates configured to help make selections.
Participants can now more easily designate dependents and beneficiaries when making selections by
making it a clear part of the selection process.

PAYROLL
GLOBAL PAYROLL
Oracle Fusion Global Payroll is a high-performance, graphical, rules-based payroll management
application. Its designed to keep pace with the changing needs of your enterprise and workforce in
order to reduce setup costs, administration, and processing time. It operates globally and consistently in
every country supported by Oracle. It uses a highly scalable processing engine that takes advantage of
the features of the Oracle database for parallel processing, resulting in optimal performance. In
countries with payroll extensions delivered and supported by Oracle, the application delivers the
calculations, tax reporting, and regulatory rules required to accurately process payroll and remain in
compliance.
CALCULATE ACCRUAL BALANCES IN A PAYROLL FLOW
Streamline your end-to-end payroll flow by running the accrual process used by Absence Management
as part of your payroll cycle. Add the Calculate Accruals and Balances task to your existing payroll flow.
This automatic task will begin when the preceding task completes.

PAYROLL FOR CHINA

Payroll for China supports country specific features and functions for China. It enables users to follow
Chinas business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.
NONTAXABLE EMPLOYEE AND EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTION THRESHHOLD AMOUNTS
Comply with the regulation on taxable social security contribution calculation in Shenzhen and Shanghai
by capturing nontaxable employee and employer contribution threshold amounts and using them in the
monthly individual income tax calculation.

PAYROLL FOR KUWAIT

Payroll for Kuwait supports country specific features and functions for Kuwait. It enables users to follow
Kuwaits business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.
SOCIAL INSURANCE 2015 ENHANCEMENT
Comply with legislative requirements. A new component for gratuity contributions has been added to
the Social Insurance calculation. The additional employee contribution is applicable to all Kuwaiti
workers employed in the private sector and, depending on hire date, some government sector workers.
Employers can record whether or not to pay the gratuity amount due to an employee on termination. In
addition, they can record whether an employee has received a gratuity payment in the past and the
date that payment was received.
The payroll process uses this information to determine whether or not gratuity contributions are to be
deducted as part of the Social Insurance calculation.
ELECTRONIC FUND TRANSFER TEMPLATE UPDATE
Comply with legislative requirements. The Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT) template now includes MOSAL
ID and IBAN Number in compliance with banking regulations.
PAYROLL CYCLE FLOW UPDATE
Ensure payroll processes are run in the correct order. Payroll Cycle is a global seeded payroll flow which
enables you to run predefined payroll tasks in a predefined sequence for each payroll period, in a best
practice flow. The payroll cycle flow has been amended so that the payroll archive is run prior to
payment tasks.
REPORT 56 ENHANCEMENT
Comply with legislative requirements. The payroll archive and Report 56 have been enhanced to
manage multiple payroll runs in the same period and report each employee only once.

COUNTRY SUPPORT FOR PAYROLL INTERFACE

FRANCE
NEW CALCULATION CARD: HARDSHIP FACTOR
Capture the following information related to Hardship:

Year Concerned

Hardship Factor: Hyperbaric activities, Night time work, Alternative cycle, and Repetitive
work

STATUTORY DEDUCTION CALCULATION CARD ENHANCEMENT

Capture the following additional information in the Statutory Deduction calculation card:

Resident Abroad: Social Security and Tax status

Pensioner: Employee Pension status upon hire

PENSION AND WELFARE CALCULATION CARD ENHANCEMENT

Capture the following additional information in the Pension and Welfare calculation card:

Number of adult legal beneficiaries

Number of dependent children

Number of child legal beneficiaries

Number of beneficiaries

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WORKFORCE REWARDS TRANSACTIONAL BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

Oracle Fusion Transactional Business Intelligence is a real time, self-service reporting solution offered to
all Oracle Cloud application users to create ad hoc reports and analyze them for daily decision-making.
Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence provides human resources managers and specialists, business
executives, and line managers the critical workforce information to analyze workforce costs, staffing,
compensation, performance management, talent management, succession planning, and employee
benefits.
ENHANCEMENTS FOR COMPENSATION
NEW SAMPLE COMPENSATION ANALYSES
Streamline building analysis by using the following new sample Compensation analyses now available:

High Performers Salary Adjustment: Compa-ratio bands of workers by the length of service
in the organization.

Compa-Ratio by Worker Count: Calculated compa-ratio bands and the percentage of

workers in those bands.

Salary Adjustment Trend: Trend of salary adjustment by job, grade, country, and business
unit for the years selected.

Compa-Ratio by Length of Service: Compa-ratio bands of workers by the length of service in

the organization.

ENHANCEMENTS FOR BENEFITS

NEW DIMENSION: OPEN ENROLLMENTS AND BENEFIT LEGAL DISCLAIMER
Enhance your benefits reporting by using these two new dimensions, Open Enrollments and Benefit
Legal Disclaimer, to report on enrollments that were recorded with or without disclaimers, and also to
report on default and pending enrollments.
NEW DIMENSION: BENEFIT PERSON HABITS
Use the Person Habits dimension to report on eligibility and rate calculation determinations for benefits
processing.

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ENHANCEMENTS FOR PAYROLL

NEW SUBJECT AREA: PAYROLL BALANCES REAL TIME
Enhance your payroll reporting capabilities with the new subject area related to payroll balances. Use
the Payroll Balances subject area to report on worker payroll run balances at all levels such as
assignment, employment term, and payroll relationship. Payroll balance categories, balance types,
names, and balance values that are available.
For access to the library of sample reports and analytic that can be used and/or modified for use please
access Apps Connect and the Report Sharing Center.
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