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  1. HR: Direct Deposit change notifications

    HR would like the ability to know if direct deposit information is changed so they can verify that the data is correct before running payroll.

    7 votes

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    2 comments  ·  Employee  ·  Admin →
    Completed  ·  Caitlin Barton responded

    Great News! An option to allow email alerts has been added for Employees when Direct Deposit information is changed. The new configuration option is located in Web Human Resources > Payroll > Setup > Configuration > Direct Deposit Alert. The Direct Deposit Alert configuration allows the user to enable and configure the email message being sent. If the district would like that other employees/administrators are notified besides the employee, then additional email addresses may be entered in the Email BCC field. This enhancement will be released with the February 2019, Addendum 5 release (04/04/2019). Enjoy!

  2. Daily AND Hourly rate to appear on main browse

    I would like to see the daily and hourly rates appear on the main Employee Management browse it is currently not an option in the filters. This is especially helpful for my salaried staff when I have to look up their daily rate... I end up having to click on "View Staff Assignment" in order to see it. This would be more efficient and every field is available in the filters EXCEPT these 2 for some reason?!

    4 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Employee  ·  Admin →
    Completed  ·  Caitlin Barton responded

    Great news! Daily and Hourly Rate columns were added to the Employee Management and Salary Negotiations Position browses in the Web Employee Profile. This was included in the June 2018 Addendum 6 Release (07/19/2018).

  3. Daily rate & Hourly rate to appear on main browse

    I would like to see the Daily rate and Hourly rate appear on the main browse rather than having to click on "view" to see someones daily or hourly rate. This would be more efficient and every field is available in the filters EXCEPT daily and hourly rates?

    3 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Employee  ·  Admin →
    Completed  ·  Caitlin Barton responded

    Great news! Daily and Hourly Rate columns were added to the Employee Management and Salary Negotiations Position browses in the Web Employee Profile. This was included in the June 2018 Addendum 6 Release (07/19/2018).

  4. Ability to mass inactivate employees profile-date

    I would like to see a utility in Mass Processing where you can mass deactivate employee profiles with the same termination/resignation date. For example all of our resigning teachers resignation/term dates are 8/31 of each year. Rather than touch each employee's profile to inactivate put in a resignation date and select all other records that need to be marked as inactive individually I'd like to see a mass processing utility where all like employees can be deactivated at once. We have upwards of 50+ teachers that resign each year. This utility would be a great time saver.

    34 votes

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  5. Contract signature dates

    Our Payroll Manager would like to have a mass utility to clear the Contract Signed field at the beginning of a new fiscal year. When a person has a supplemental contract they don't start paying them until they have a signed contract back from the employee. This field is found on the Payroll Information tab of the Assignment Maintenance screen - WH\AD\EM\AS\AS.
    Add contract signed field to the position assignment mass change utility.

    25 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Employee  ·  Admin →
    Completed  ·  Caitlin Barton responded

    Hello – Great News! The Contract Signed Date has been added to the Position/Assignment Mass Change Utility. This will allow you to clear out the Contract Signed Dates based on your parameters at the beginning of a new fiscal year for supplemental contracts or any contracts you need to clear the date out for. This means you can make sure the contracts are signed ahead of time prior to paying someone through a Payroll. This was released in the February 2021 release Addendum 6 (04/15/2021). Thank you and have a great day!

  6. EmpMgmt Background Color Change with Plan Year

    Student Skyward has the ability to insert coding behind the scenes allowing for differing background colors between the current year scheduling and future scheduling. The same thing is needed in Employee Management to help differentiate between Plan years. This would prevent you from accidentally making a bunch of changes in a different EmpMgmt Plan year than what you were intending. This happens a lot during the spring and summer when you have created your new plan for the upcoming school year and are making updates to both the current plan year and the future plan year at the same time.…

    41 votes

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    3 comments  ·  Employee  ·  Admin →

    With the 05.20.10.00.01 release available on 10/8/2020, Employee management/salary negotiations are updated to display a “Future Year” or “Previous Year” header when in plans that are based in the future or past.
    This setting will be comparing the Plan Year to the Current Calendar Year in FM config.

    Thank you!

  7. A way for employees to opt out printed W2's

    We would like a way for employees to select to receive their W2 electronic once and the system keep their selection until they choose differently so they don't have to select every year.
    Negative impact - Employees don't log into Employee Access every year and we end up printing their W2
    Our hope is once an employee signs up for electronic W2's and 1095-C's they would only have to do this once and not every year. They would always have the option to change back if they wanted to. Our goal is to move away from printing but Federal Government…

    59 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Employee  ·  Admin →

    Great news! The W2 print file process is updated to use the last selected response from the employee’s printing preferences. This is a factor when the employee has not entered a preference for the current year, or when the district is reprinting W2s from a previous year and the employee has since changed their receipt preferences.
    You’ll find this update in the target release: 05.19.06.00.04, available on 7/25/2019. Thank you!

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