Release notes — 15 November 2023

Learn about any known issues in this release.

HR | Payroll | Help centre |Stability and infrastructure | User interface restyle

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HR

Enhancements

• Absence details: Working Day column.

Working Day column added to Absence details. This column will give information about the employee's working pattern including: Start and end times (if available), working day duration, whether the day is set to AM or PM, and non working days.

• Absence details: Updated validations

Changes have been made to the validations in Absence details to prevent users from submitting incorrect durations.

These validations include, but are not limited to:

• Individual days cannot be more than 1.00 day.

• Total hours and minutes per day cannot be above 23:59.

These changes are part of the ongoing improvements to the way you request absences. Find out more about the planned improvements to absence screens.

Fixes

Leavers access: A fix has been applied to allow leavers to log in to Cascade and access their own data.

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Payroll

Enhancements

• LGPS in plain text: Added text to inform the user of what the acronym LGPS stands for (Local Government Pension Scheme) in Payroll > Processing > LGPS Exceptions.

• Car & Fuel backdates: IRIS Cascade will now calculate the backdates due for mistimed car and fuel benefit payments.

• Updated P60: The IRIS Cascade P60 has been updated in line with the HMRC requirements for 2023/2024.

• Updated EPS: The employer payment summary (EPS) has been updated in line with the HMRC Technical Specifications for the 2024/2025 tax year.

• Updated FPS: The full payment submission (FPS) has been updated in line with the HMRC Technical Specifications for the 2024/2025 tax year.

Fixes

• EPS submit error: Fixed an issue that resulted in an error when trying to submit the employer payment summary (EPS) on the 19th of the month.

• Car & Fuel payment pro-rata: Fixed an issue that resulted in the car and fuel payment not applying the pro-rata correctly in the current month.

• Gross to Net Report: Fixed an issue that resulted in the class 1A value not reporting in the Ers NI field.

• FPS missing value: Fixed an issue that resulted in the termination / sporting testimonial value not showing correctly in some circumstances on the full payment submission (FPS).

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Help centre

New

• Dark mode

• Improvements to absence screens

• IRIS Cascade user interface restyle

Updated

• Close and carry holiday years

• Recalculate close and carry

• Common Questions about Data Protection

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Stability and infrastructure

• Auto Enrolment load time: Page load time for both At A Glance and Process Auto Enrolment has been significantly reduced, allowing the employee status to be available much quicker.

  More improvements are coming soon - with a focus on running assessments and completing enrollments.

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User interface restyle

Fixes and enhancements

• Payroll real time information (RTI) progress screen improvements.

• Inactive workflows made more obvious in catalogue.

• Field colours removed from employee screen in dark mode.

• Icons added to date picker buttons.

• Pivot table dragging fields fixed in Enhanced Office Reports.

Up next

• Fixing HR > Data Change Audit scrolling issue that occurs when there are a lot of results.

• Improving the icon shown when an absence is blocked.

• Making dark mode available in About page.

• Aligning security question prompt correctly.

Find out more about the user interface restyle.