We are pleased to announce that enhancements to ADP® Workforce Now® (WFN) v13 were released to all WFN v13 clients on on May 15, 2017. This release included enhancements to improve Stability, Simplification, Usability, and Compliance.
Release Highlights
Release content included:
- ACA – enhancements to calculate employees’ hours of service and updates to the 2017 Federal Poverty Level Income Amounts
- Benefits – functionality for practitioners to download, view, and delete documents uploaded by employees when enrolling in benefits and other functionality pertinent to documents
- Carrier Connections – access to a Connection Audit Trail
- Compensation Dashboard – changes to permissions to access the Dashboard and comp events
- HR – EEO Ethnic Code is now separated into Race and Ethnicity. (Standard reports are updated.)
- Mobile – ability for supervisors to approve/unapprove time cards in the App and additional enhancements to improve the user experience
- My Team – ability for managers to add supporting documents under My Team > Employment > Employment Profile > Status
- PaaS – ability to export policy acknowledgement PDF report for a single employee, user interface changes in Message Center, and additional panes available in Enterprise Search results
- Payroll – new Pay Profile page, a one-stop-shop for employee payroll information, ability for client users to access the Deduction Validation Table to add a new deduction group schedule, and additional functionality
- Performance – more consistent language for when employees sign/acknowledge the various types of Performance reviews (annual review, disciplinary notice, PIP)
- Recruiting – Race/Ethnicity under Voluntary Self-Identification is now 2 separate fields
- Reporting – new fields for direct deposit, race and ethnicity, full and part time indicators for Vermont Quarterly Reporting, and renamed Payroll and Open Enrollment Center Contact fields
- Time and Attendance – addition of Labor Charge fields to time off requests on timecards, time zone added to Edit Audit Page and Edit Audit Report, and Pay Class Summary Information displayed if employee punches are not rounded
A pop-up should have appeared in WFN on the first login on May 15, 2017, with a link to Support Center where the What’s New for ADP Workforce Now document is presented. The What’s New includes screenshots and descriptions of the new enhancements. Please be sure to thoroughly review this document.
If you have any questions regarding this alert, please contact your Service Team.