Release 5.6

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Multi Week Work & SSP Schedules(NP-265)

Work and SSP Schedules set up at company level and overridden at employee level can now be for multiple weeks, allowing work patterns different to the standard 7 day. Work Schedules can also be copied to SSP to allow easier set up. The worker's schedule can be overridden using the Starter Importer

Audit Report Enhancements (NP-331)

The company and employee audit reports have been further enhanced with the addition of a record details column.

Statutory Override NI Thresholds (NP-338)

The NI thresholds for a pay period can now be overridden in exactly the manner of the contribution elements.

Default Pension Setups (NP-356)

Default pensions types have been added for pension providers that have fixed configurations. The current provider list is Nest, SMART, NOW and People's. The effected elements are whether Net Pay Scheme, Net of BR Tax, Basic Scheme and Qualifying Earnings*

*please note Qualifying Earnings was previously called Standard Pay

Non Pro-Rata Pay Elements (NP-336)

A new field has been added at pay element level on the Company → Pay Elements page, allowing payments and deductions to pay a full pay period or pay a zero value, in scenarios where a partial period would otherwise be paid.

Hide Zero Payslips option for Payslip Portal (NP-337)

A new field has been added to the Payslip Portal section of the Company→ General screen. This will hide zero payslips in the Payslip Portal. The functionality will be useful if the company pay their workers irregularly.

Exception Report → RTI (NP-332)

Additional checks have been added to show any worker's that don't have 2 lines of address or have non HMRC compliant characters in their name or address.

Nominal Export Enhancements (NP-339)

Addition of a show Cost Centre parameter, inclusion of departmental splits

Nominal Code Report (NP-353)

A new report (User Reports → Nominal Codes) have been added to display nominal structure as set up through the Company → Accounts screen

Leaver Report changes (NP-334)

Both Employee → Leavers and Employee → Leavers V2 reports have been changed to be based on the period the worker had the status of leaver in the system.

Occupational Sickness/Absence Pay Element Enhancements (NP- 350)

Ability to add elements to pension schemes.

Ability to add nominal codes against elements.

Holiday Pay on Leaving Bug (NP- 367)

Pay previously not automatically being added where leave date was retrospective.

HMRC Student Loan Creation Change (NP- 381)

Any student loan (SL1) request from the HMRC will automatically end any other student loan records against the worker..

Minor Fixes

Group reporting (report creation)(NP-351) - Fix for comparing values to check if report already exists

Exception report (NP-335) - show starters that are made leavers in their first period

Company create (NP-343) - Copy the Salary Reduction pay element from cloned company

Lower minimum worker age (NP-370)

Provide more understandable rollback error (NP-371)

Change number of days absence display (NP-333)

Additional supplementary run reports (NP-340)

Allow SMS configuration by payroll (NP-344)

Employee Basic Importer - ExternalID change (NP-345, NP-365)

Add task completion events (NP-354)

Student Loan export table change (NP-360)

Gender Pay Gap reports - Additional information (NP-380)

Student Loan creation change (NP-381)

Improve error message (NP-369)

CIS starter error (NP-392)

Absent entry errors (NP-393)