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Oracle Global Human Resources Cloud

Release 12

New Feature Summary

December 2016

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

REVISION HISTORY ............................................................................................................................................. 4

OVERVIEW ......................................................................................................................................................... 5

HUMAN RESOURCES .......................................................................................................................................... 6

GLOBAL HUMAN RESOURCES .............................................................................................................................................. 6 Enhanced Add Person Flows .............................................................................................................................................. 6 Enhanced Manage Direct Reports ..................................................................................................................................... 6 Changes from Extensible to User for Specific Person Lookup Types ................................................................................. 6 Enhanced Duplicate Person Validation .............................................................................................................................. 7 Salary Update When Changing Working Hours ................................................................................................................. 7 Areas of Responsibility Enhanced to Include Additional Attributes and Responsibility ..................................................... 7 Worker User Accounts No Longer Created Automatically for Users Loaded in Bulk ......................................................... 7

HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT FOR CHINA ...................................................................................................................... 8 Nontaxable Employee and Employer Contribution Threshhold Amounts ......................................................................... 8

HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT FOR FRANCE .................................................................................................................... 9 New Calculation Card: Hardship Factor ............................................................................................................................. 9 Statutory Deduction Calculation Card Enhancement ........................................................................................................ 9 Pension and Welfare Calculation Card Enhancement ........................................................................................................ 9 New External Organization ................................................................................................................................................ 9

HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT FOR GERMANY .............................................................................................................. 10 Legislative Changes for Name Validations ....................................................................................................................... 10 Enhanced Person Name Validations ................................................................................................................................ 10 Validations for Reporting First Name and Reporting Last Name ..................................................................................... 10 Disability Report ............................................................................................................................................................... 10

HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT FOR KUWAIT ................................................................................................................. 11 Electronic Fund Transfer Template Update ..................................................................................................................... 11 Payroll Cycle Flow Update ............................................................................................................................................... 11 Report 56 Enhancement .................................................................................................................................................. 11 IPE Consolidated Report Updates .................................................................................................................................... 11 Highest Education Level Specialization ............................................................................................................................ 11

HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT FOR SAUDI ARABIA ....................................................................................................... 12 IPE Consolidated Report Updates .................................................................................................................................... 12 Highest Education Level Specialization ............................................................................................................................ 12

HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT FOR THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES ................................................................................. 13 IPE Consolidated Report Updates .................................................................................................................................... 13

HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM .......................................................................................... 14 Employment Intermediaries Reporting ............................................................................................................................ 14 UK Statutory Holiday Calculation ..................................................................................................................................... 14

HR OPTIMIZATIONS .......................................................................................................................................... 15

HUMAN RESOURCES TRANSACTIONAL BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ....................................................................................... 15 New Dimension: Person Schedule Assignment ................................................................................................................ 15 New Dimension: Person Schedule Assignment Exception ............................................................................................... 15 New Dimension: Employee Supervisor Hierarchy Bottom Up ......................................................................................... 15 Enhanced Subject Area: Vacancy Real Time .................................................................................................................... 15 Enhanced Subject Area: Worker, Worker Assignment, and Assignment Event Details .................................................. 15 Enhanced Subject Area: Work Relationship Real Time .................................................................................................... 16 Enhanced Dimension: Job ................................................................................................................................................ 16 Enhanced Dimension: Person Names ............................................................................................................................. 16

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Enhanced Legal Employer Dimension - Position Synchronization ................................................................................... 16 New Sample Analyses for Global Human Resources ........................................................................................................ 16

WORK LIFE SOLUTIONS .................................................................................................................................... 18

EMPLOYEE WELLNESS........................................................................................................................................................ 18 Oracle Social Network Integration ................................................................................................................................... 18 Wellness Assessments ..................................................................................................................................................... 18 Ranked Competitions ....................................................................................................................................................... 18 Privacy Notification for Contest Participants ................................................................................................................... 18 Ergonomic Assessments ................................................................................................................................................... 18 Support for Metric Units .................................................................................................................................................. 18

WORKFORCE REPUTATION MANAGEMENT ....................................................................................................................... 19 Simplified Administration Now Available from the Home Page ...................................................................................... 19 User Registration Available from a New Page in the Reputation Work Area ................................................................... 19

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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 What’s Changed Notes 05 DEC 2016 Initial Document Creation

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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.

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HUMAN RESOURCES

GLOBAL HUMAN RESOURCES

Oracle Fusion Global Human Resources enables your organization to plan, manage and optimize all workforce segments using flexible and extensible best practices to realize extraordinary gains while ensuring compliance and increasing total workforce engagement.

ENHANCED ADD PERSON FLOWS

Streamline the user experience with the changed Add Person flows. The earlier Employment Information page is now split into two train stops: Employment Information and Compensation and Other Information to avoid page scrolling. The Compensation and Other Information train stop includes compensation, benefits, and role details. You can now add direct reports to a manager in the same transaction on the Employment Information page.

ENHANCED MANAGE DIRECT REPORTS

Enhance the user experience with the addition of the Add Direct Reports functionality in the Manage Direct Reports page. You can now add direct reports or reassign both line and other types of direct reports to different manager types from the Manage Direct Reports page. You also have the option to select or deselect the direct reports in a single click.

The ability to manage direct reports is also integrated in the following manager self-service pages: Hire, Add Contingent Worker, Promote, Transfer, Change Working Hours, and Change Manager. In addition the Manage Direct Reports functionality is also included in the following human resource specialist processes: Hire, Add Contingent Worker, Create Work Relationship, Global Transfer, Global Temporary Assignment, Temporary Assignment, Add Assignment, Add Work Terms, End Assignment, and End Work Terms.

CHANGES FROM EXTENSIBLE TO USER FOR SPECIFIC PERSON LOOKUP TYPES

Control the lookup codes in the following lookup types that are converted from a customization level of extensible to user:

• CONTACT

• MAR_STATUS

• PER_HIGHEST_EDUCATION_LEVEL

• PER_NATIONAL_IDENTIFIER_TYPE

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• PER_ETHNICITY

• PER_VISA_PERMIT_TYPE

You can now change the above Oracle delivered lookup codes, tags and enabled fields.

ENHANCED DUPLICATE PERSON VALIDATION

Enhance the user experience with the new duplicate person validation. You can now prevent creation of duplicate people when loading workers using the Worker service. The Person Creation Service Duplicate Check option is added on the Enterprise HCM Information page. This option is used when creating workers though the Worker service. If provided, this validation checks for matches between person name, date of birth, gender, and national ID. The validation generates an error and prevents creation of a duplicate person if there are any conflicts.

SALARY UPDATE WHEN CHANGING WORKING HOURS

Enhance Line Manager’s ability to update the salary of part-time workers when changing their working hours. You can now update the salary by using the Change Working Hours task in Manager Self-Service.

AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY ENHANCED TO INCLUDE ADDITIONAL ATTRIBUTES AND RESPONSIBILITY

Provide greater flexibility in defining the scope of areas of responsibility. You can now define scope based on job families and job functions. The Areas of Responsibility page also shows a new Recruiting responsibility type and new scope attributes based on recruiting type and hierarchies. The recruiting responsibility type and recruiting attributes are for use with a future enhancement.

WORKER USER ACCOUNTS NO LONGER CREATED AUTOMATICALLY FOR USERS LOADED IN BULK

Control the automatic creation of user accounts and notification of user credentials for users loaded in bulk. From this release, the GeneratedUserAccountFlag and SendCredentialsEmailFlag attributes of the Worker object default to N (No). Set them to Y (Yes) for selected workers to create user accounts and send notifications.

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HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT FOR CHINA

Oracle Fusion HRMS (China) supports country specific features and functions for China. It enables users to follow China’s 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.

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HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT FOR FRANCE

Oracle Fusion HRMS (France) supports country specific features and functions for France. It enables users to follow France’s business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

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

NEW EXTERNAL ORGANIZATION

Support of the additional external organization type: French unemployment agency.

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HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT FOR GERMANY

Oracle Fusion HRMS (Germany) supports country specific features and functions for Germany. It enables users to follow Germany’s business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

LEGISLATIVE CHANGES FOR NAME VALIDATIONS

Comply with legislative changes published by the Social Insurance authority as of June 1, 2015; the validation messages for person names are enhanced.

ENHANCED PERSON NAME VALIDATIONS

Validate a person’s name by now entering a "+" (plus sign) at the first position for birth name, first name, or last name for persons, whose birth name, first name, or last name is not known. All the messages and business rules are enhanced to include this validation.

VALIDATIONS FOR REPORTING FIRST NAME AND REPORTING LAST NAME

Enter the reporting name only if the person’s name fields do not comply with the validation rules. The Reporting First Name and Reporting Last Name fields are no longer mandatory. They are automatically populated from the person’s name fields, if they comply with all the validation rules.

DISABILITY REPORT

Use this report to export data to the third-party software REHADAT-Elan. The report is enhanced to count the number of positions reported in file c, that is, employer’s workforce.

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HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT FOR KUWAIT

Oracle Fusion HRMS (Kuwait) supports Kuwait-specific features and functionality. It enables users to follow Kuwait’s business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

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.

IPE CONSOLIDATED REPORT UPDATES

Comply with legislative requirements. New hires and terminations are now reported separately and the new hire details are not shown when the employee is terminated.

HIGHEST EDUCATION LEVEL SPECIALIZATION

Comply with legislative requirements. In addition to recording the highest education level a person has achieved, you can now record the subject, or specialization, for the highest education level.

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HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT FOR SAUDI ARABIA

Oracle Fusion HRMS (Saudi Arabia) supports country specific features and functions for Saudi Arabia. It enables users to follow Saudi Arabia’s business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

IPE CONSOLIDATED REPORT UPDATES

Comply with legislative requirements. New hires and terminations are now reported separately and the new hire details are not shown when the employee is terminated.

HIGHEST EDUCATION LEVEL SPECIALIZATION

Comply with legislative requirements. In addition to recording the highest education level a person has achieved, you can now record the subject, or specialization, for the highest education level.

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HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT FOR THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Oracle Fusion HRMS (United Arab Emirates) supports country specific features and functions for the United Arab Emirates. It enables users to follow the United Arab Emirates’ business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

IPE CONSOLIDATED REPORT UPDATES

Comply with legislative requirements. New hires and terminations are now reported separately and the new hire details are not shown when the employee is terminated.

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HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM

Oracle Fusion HRMS (UK) supports country specific features and functions for the United Kingdom. It enables users to follow UK business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

EMPLOYMENT INTERMEDIARIES REPORTING

Comply with the HMRC requirement by recording information for those employees who are employed through intermediaries. Use the Worker Engagement Details field and Worker Unique Taxpayer Reference field to capture this information.

UK STATUTORY HOLIDAY CALCULATION

Calculate the statutory holiday entitlement, that is, the number of holidays accrued by a person in a holiday year, by using the sample fast formula. Use the sample formula by associating it with your absence accrual plan.

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HR OPTIMIZATIONS

HUMAN RESOURCES 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.

NEW DIMENSION: PERSON SCHEDULE ASSIGNMENT

Expand on employee schedule reporting using the new dimension called ‘Person Schedule Assignment’ in the Person Real Time subject area. Using this new dimension you can report on Schedule Name, Primary Schedule, Resource Type, and Start and End dates.

NEW DIMENSION: PERSON SCHEDULE ASSIGNMENT EXCEPTION

Expand on the employee schedule reporting using the new dimension called ‘Person Schedule Assignment Exception’ in the Person Real Time subject area. Using this new dimension you can report on employee schedule exceptions such as Exception Name, Type, Availability, and Start and End dates.

NEW DIMENSION: EMPLOYEE SUPERVISOR HIERARCHY BOTTOM UP

Enhance reporting on your supervisor hierarchy using the new dimension that shows the manager hierarchy chain from the bottom up, starting from the employee. This dimension is added as a subfolder in the Worker dimension.

ENHANCED SUBJECT AREA: VACANCY REAL TIME

Include the hiring manager in Vacancy Real Time subject area of the Vacancy Details folder.

ENHANCED SUBJECT AREA: WORKER, WORKER ASSIGNMENT, AND ASSIGNMENT EVENT DETAILS

Report on the managers of terminated workers. The following subject areas are now enabled for you to report on the managers of terminated workers: Worker, Worker Assignment Details and Assignment Event Details.

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ENHANCED SUBJECT AREA: WORK RELATIONSHIP REAL TIME

Streamline reporting to also include the non primary work relationships of an employee along with the existing primary work relationship functionality using the Work Relationship Real Time subject area.

ENHANCED DIMENSION: JOB

Include information on whether any benchmark exists for an employee through the Job dimension enhancement, if yes then the benchmark Job Code for that employee. The Job Profile has also been added.

ENHANCED DIMENSION: PERSON NAMES

Include additional attributes for person name information of the Person Names dimension in the Person Real Time subject area have been added in a sub-folder in Person Names. Information 1 to 30 has been added.

ENHANCED LEGAL EMPLOYER DIMENSION - POSITION SYNCHRONIZATION

Reporting on Legal employer has been enhanced with the addition of a sub folder named Position Synchronization. With this enhancement, you can report on synchronization, job, grade, and department and so on.

NEW SAMPLE ANALYSES FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RESOURCES

Streamline building analysis by using the following new sample Global Human Resource analyses now available:

• Headcount KPI: Key metrics related to organization headcount.

• Headcount Trend: Trend across headcount, FTE and contingent workers for the selected year. Headcount is shown by months of the year.

• Joiners and Leavers: New hires and terminations for the selected year by month.

• Grade by Gender: Shows the split between gender counts for the selected grades.

• Headcount by Age Profile: Headcount by various age bands of employees.

• Joiners by Grade and Gender: New hires by grade and split by gender.

• Joiners by Age Band and Gender: New hires by calculated age band and split by gender.

• Leavers by Grade and Gender: Terminations by grade and split by gender.

• Leavers by Age Band and Gender: Terminations by calculated age band and split by gender.

• Promotions by Grade and Gender: Promotions by grade and split by gender.

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• Promotions by Age Band and Gender: Promotions by calculated age band and split by gender

• Age Band Diversity: Percentage of workers in the organization by calculated age band.

• Length of Service Diversity: Workers in the organization by length of service band.

• Employee Ethnicity: Percentage of workers by their ethnicity.

• Gender Diversity: Percentage of workers by gender

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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WORK LIFE SOLUTIONS

EMPLOYEE WELLNESS

Oracle Fusion Employee Wellness supports corporate initiatives to improve employee fitness and health through the use of opt-in wellness features. This application integrates with popular fitness tracking services to simplify and automate the acquisition of exercise data from a wide range of devices.

ORACLE SOCIAL NETWORK INTEGRATION

Connect through popular social media features that are now available within the application through Oracle Social Network capabilities.

WELLNESS ASSESSMENTS

Take wellness assessments so users can access their personal health levels.

RANKED COMPETITIONS

Set up corporate-wide competitions where employees can compete for prizes by competing with colleagues.

PRIVACY NOTIFICATION FOR CONTEST PARTICIPANTS

Notification for contest participants will be received regarding the impact on their privacy when enrolling in a contest. They must accept this notice before they can enter a contest. This notification addresses concerns regarding the visibility of individual fitness activities.

ERGONOMIC ASSESSMENTS

Take ergonomic assessments to enhance productivity and improve quality of life at work for users. Ergonomic assessment results can be routed to a health and safety professional for appropriate resolution.

SUPPORT FOR METRIC UNITS

Display all measurement data within Employee Wellness in two new systems, the metric system and the imperial system.

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WORKFORCE REPUTATION MANAGEMENT

Oracle Fusion Workforce Reputation Management harnesses social networks to help organizations discover, mobilize, and retain talent. This functionality provides insight into workers' social reputation and influence while also monitoring workers' social media usage compliance and mitigating social media risk.

SIMPLIFIED ADMINISTRATION NOW AVAILABLE FROM THE HOME PAGE

Simplify your administration using a new page available from the My Workforce icon on the home page. You no longer have to download or deploy the subscription application file because the subscription is now integrated with the application. This integration also means that the URLs you enter in the social media sites have changed. You now enter the host and port where Workforce Reputation Management is deployed. The following features are no longer required and hence have been removed: entering a keystore password, entering a custom URL, and gamification.

USER REGISTRATION AVAILABLE FROM A NEW PAGE IN THE REPUTATION WORK AREA

Register yourself using a new page available from the Workforce Reputation Subscription Application icon on the My Reputation page, if you have the Workforce Reputation Subscription user privilege. You no longer need to manage registration using a separate subscription application. From the My Reputation page, you can also endorse other users and view your own endorsements.

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