Monday, Jun 25, 2018 | 1 New Feature Added.

Module: Payroll & Taxation

1. Enhancements in Tax Declaration Verification Screen

UX, UI improvements have been made in Tax Declaration Verification Screen.
- Viewing Attachments
- Removing line item confirmation (Employee End Change)

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Monday, Jun 18, 2018 | 3 New Features Added.

Module: Leave & Attendance

1. Late coming penality Enhancement

What is the need?

There are various cases where employee's Late Coming Penalty is wrongly computed because of previous days attendance changes like an employee was late for three days as per shift timings and 4th-day system marked late coming penalty. Now employee regularized his/ her attendance for day 2 then all of the future late comings should be adjusted accordingly.

What has been changed:
Now we have created a program which always assesses employee's current month attendance and late coming and based on that update employee's late coming penalty. This process will make sure that no employee gets penalized because of wrong computation.

Module: Payroll & Taxation

2. Ptax Tamilnadu (Chennai) slab change

As per new notification, P Tax rate has been changed for Tamilnadu (Chennai).
Tamil Nadu (Chennai)

Six Months Income - Tax Rate WEF. 1-Apr-2018
Up to Rs. 21,000 - Nil
Rs. 21,001 to 30,000 - Rs. 135 for six months
Rs. 30,001 to 45,000 - Rs. 315 for six months
Rs. 45,001 to 60,000 - Rs. 690 for six months
Rs. 60,001 to 75,000 - Rs. 1,025 for six months
Rs. 75,001 and above - Rs. 1,250 for six months

Module: Employee Hiring

2. Resumes submitted by HR - option of capturing source of resume

What is the change?
HR can submit resume against any RFR and currently system capture these resume sources as “HR”.
We have enhanced this functionality and have started capturing actual sources in such cases.

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Monday, Jun 11, 2018 | 1 New Feature Added.

Module: Payroll & Taxation

1. Revised EPF Admin Charges

As per Gazette Notification dated 21/05/2018, there has been a change in the EPF Admin charges w.e.f. 01/06/2018.
Revised EPF Admin Charges - 0.50%

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Monday, Jun 04, 2018 | 2 New Feature Added.

Module: Travel & Expense

1. Defaulting of SAC code for Stay in GST Layer

Business Need:
It has been observed and verified that for Stay cases there is only one valid SAC code that has been used - 996311. Hence it should not be required that the employee needs to fill this every time.

Changes:
Any employee who is creating line item of Stay and entering valid GST details. In such cases, the system will by default populate SAC Code value as 996311. Although the employee can change this value before submission. No impact on existing suggestion feature.

Module: Payroll & Taxation

2. Tamil Nadu Labour Welfare Act Salary Changes w.e.f. 14/03/2018

There has been a change in minimum wage/standard salary for applicability of LWF deduction and contribution for Tamil Nadu state. It has been changed from Rs 3500/- to Rs 15000/- w.e.f. 14/03/2018.

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Monday, May 28, 2018 | 6 New Features Added.

Module: Employee Hiring

1. Tags in Hiring Event

What has been done?

Employwise gives the flexibility to define email content for each action which sends a notification to the receiver.
We have added relevant tags which allows HR to add in the email template and the notification data gives more contextual information in the email.

2. Consultant Search

What has been done?

While publishing a job on the portal and HR wish to share this job with selected consultant then it was a little complex task. Now we have introduced a feature of searching consultant. This helps HR in multiple selection of consultants without going to next screen.

3. Additional Stage of Document Submission before offer creation in Hiring

What is the need?

Before generating offer letter, companies want to verify basic documents before proceeding like Last company salary slips, compensation structure, Graduation mark sheets etc.
Hence there is a need for capturing such documents before generating an offer letter.

What are the changes?

We have introduced a functionality which allows HR to define a stage before Make Offer. This stage is called "Document Submission" Stage. HR can define the different category and can capture various documents at this stage.
Stage Owner would also be able to Verify these documents and in case of any issues, documents can be returned to the candidate back.
Once all of the required documents are verified then the only candidate can be moved to the next stage.

4. Enhancement in the RFR applicant details report

Additional fields have been added:
1. Last CTC
2. Offer Band

Objective:
This data will be used to check that what is the compa ratio and what should be offered to the candidate and it there is any deviation then it should be visible upfront.

Offer Band will show the following Values as follows:

If compa Ratio is 95 to 105 %, it will be Mean
If compa Ratio is below 95 %, it will be Low
If compa Ratio is above 105%, it will be High

Module: Employee Information Portal

5. Welcome Email enhancements

1. Employee Email id tag has been added.
2. Character Limit to Welcome Email template has been increased to 2000 characters now.

6. Enable capability of including Logo Tag in letter templates

Now, while generating letters, clients can now add Company Logo Tag as well which can be printed.

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Monday, May 14, 2018 | 2 New Features Added.

Module: Mobile

1. Help Desk Feature launched in Mobile App

Now, the employee can raise an issue to EmployWise Support team right from App.

Steps:

1. Update the Android / iOS app from the respective store.
2. Login with your credentials.
3. You will find an option in the left menu and top bar "Raise an issue".
4. A form will appear and you need to submit your issue to the team and our customer support team will care about these issues.

Module: Employee Hiring

2. Resume Parsing

Changes:

Resume of any candidate can be submitted by candidate itself or by HR. Once Resume gets uploaded, candidate / HR needs to fill other mandatory fields manually. Now we have simplified this process. Once resume gets uploaded, The system will parse the resume and all possible fields available in the form will get auto-filled from the resume. Now HR/Candidate just need to verify the details and click on Submit.

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