Release Summary
Welcome to Buddy's second release notes! Today's update brings significant improvements to both payroll admins, as well as managers and employees making use of the Employee Portal.
The key highlights are the following:
- Inclusion of Pension Plan data in the employee import template
- Significant Changes to Multi-Day leave for the Employee and Manager portals
- New User Interface elements in the leave management page
- Other quality of live improvements
We recommend that you read through the full change log below.
Release Notes
People
- Update: The employee import now includes options to import Pension Plans and custom contributions
- Fix: The text input for dates has been updated to be consistent. The engagement date, termination date and salary update date will now use the standard format, based on the browser, rather than Americanised dates.
Payroll
- Fix: When a mixed-salary payslip is saved before previewing the base hours, the hours will be saved as pro-rata, rather than defaulting to the 173.33.
If the details of the employee are expanded, then the user input will be expected to amend base hours.
Employees
- Fix: Employee Invites have been updated to ensure that they give proper access to their new account
Leave Management
- New: When adding leave, the Employee Selector will split the list into Active and Terminated, which will also show when inputting a name to search.
- Fix: When adding a single leave day, hours will not automatically be rounded down. For instance, if the leave default is 6.67 hours per day, this number will be used for single-day leave.
- Update: Whilst editing a single-day leave, changing the Time In or Time Out will automatically updated the hours requested
Employee and Manager Portal
The leave management within the employee and manager portals has undergone significant changes. Our team hopes this will enhance your teams' experiences with managing leave through Buddy.
Employee and Manager Updates
- Update: When a company has a set default hours, these will be defaulted for any day for all employees, regardless of the employee's salary structure
- Update: When adding leave, the Time Out will auto-adjust to match the Default Hours of the company.
- Update: The pre-filled hours for multi-day leave have been updated:
- The 40-hour cap per week for employees without defined workdays will only consider the days included in the current leave application.
- The weekly hours cap for employees with set days/hours will assume that the other scheduled hours have been worked
- e.g. a 40-hour, Monday to Friday employee that has defaulted 8.5 hours per day, applies for Thursday and Friday. Thursday will default to 8.5 hours, whilst Friday will default to 6 hours.
Manager Only Updates
- Update: When adding leave, changing Time in or Time Out will update the Hours Requested (within the daily maximum leave).
- Fix: When editing leave, the Time In or Time Out are no longer reset to the default hours
Other
- Fix: When editing timesheets, the status will accurately load the current status, rather than the status of a previous timesheet
- Fix: Employee Invites have been updated to ensure that they give proper access to their new account