- Platinum Jubilee> Additional Bank Holiday in 2022: New functionality has been added to allow users to increase or decrease employees’ holiday entitlement en masse. This new functionality can be accessed via Setups> AA. Advanced> AA. Adjust Staff Holidays, and offers a variety of filters to restrict selection of staff, along with the choice of increasing or decreasing employees’ holiday adjustment field.When run, the old and new values are written to an audit trail that is available from the ‘History’ button. A ‘Detail‘ button shows the options that were used on that particular run, allowing users to reverse the update if required.The way in which you manage this additional bank holiday will differ depending upon the specific contract you have with your employees. Information on employee’s entitlement when an extra bank holiday is granted can be found here
- Health & Social Care NI Levy> Payslip Message: A new message stating “1.25% uplift in NICs funds NHS, health & social care” has been added to payslip formats 1 & 8 for the 2022-23 tax year, in line with HMRC’s request for employers to explain what these funds will be used for. The message can be switched off via Setups> Setups & Defaults> Formats tab, but will default to being ‘on’ when updating to ‘Site Manager 2022’.
- Staff Check Report> Below NMW: Improvements have been made to the Staff Check report and Anomalies & Summary Report within the Pay Cycle to report if an employee is being paid below the NMW rate.
- End of Year Clear Down: Additional measures introduced to improve the clear down process and reduce the number of incidents of the clear down being run multiple times or pay cycles being opened prior to clear down being processed. Full details can be found in the release notes document.
- Site Type Picklist: A new ‘Site Type‘ field has been added to the Site record which allows users to select a Site Type from a pre-defined list. The new field is included in the Site Browser Format export.
- Site Hazards: Additional fields exported to Portal & Mobile Devices – Site Manager has been enhanced to include the ‘Likelihood’ and ‘Severity’ fields in the ‘AllSites.xml’ exported to the Portal and Mobile devices.
- Creation of Site Stock List: When no stock item existed on a Site Stock List, users were unable to ‘Load Items’ due to an error in the system. This has been fixed.See the full details in our new format release notes by going to CL-Changes-for-Site Manager 2022
