People Manager Release July 2025
- Stuart Murray
- Justin Stephens
- Hitesh Sud
Introduction
We are pleased to confirm the July 2025 release of People Manager. This will be available on 11th July.
Listening to our users is important to us, and we hope that you find these changes useful and they help to streamline your business processes. We always value feedback, so please feel free to contact support if you wish to discuss anything.
All previous release notes can be found here: People Manager Release Notes.
New Features
Payroll submission errors improved
Home screen - holiday section added
Week indicator added to work plans
Improved calendar filtering for admins
Multiple absence types and absence reasons
New Feature Details
Payroll submission errors improved
Error reporting in payroll submission has been improved. After running a validation/transfer on the payroll → submission screen, clicking an error now displays the resolution on the right-hand side.
For full information on payroll submission, please refer to How to run a standard payroll from People Manager?
Payroll periods enhancement
The Admin → Payroll → Payroll Periods screen has had three new fields added and the layout improved to accommodate them.
Old Screen
New Screen
The three new fields are:
Absence Cut-Off Date - specifies absence pay will be paid up to, and including, this date.
Expenses Cut-Off Date – applies if you are using the Expenses module and specifies that only expenses approved up to, and including, this date will be paid.
Timesheet Cut-Off Date - applies if you are using the timesheet module and specifies that only timesheets up to, and including, this date will be processed.
The Starter Cut-Off Date (formerly 'Cut-Off Date') ensures that only employees who start on, or before, this date are included in the payroll.
For full information on payroll periods, please refer to Payroll periods
AVC added to pension scheme
You are now able to check whether you have an AVC (Additional Voluntary Contribution) pension scheme via the Admin → Pension → Pension Scheme screen.
Employees with an AVC scheme have two pension entries, one for their normal scheme, and a second for their AVC scheme. AVC schemes are designated by the AVC checkbox.
The type of scheme determines the fields displayed on the Employees → Pay → Pension screen. For normal schemes, the four fields Employer Percentage, Employee Percentage, Employer Fixed Amount and Employee Fixed Amount are available. For AVC schemes, the two fields AVC Percentage and AVC Fixed Amount are available.
If RSM are processing your UK payroll, they will set up the pension configuration for you, including AVC if this is required.
For further information on pensions, please refer to Pay
Home screen - holiday section added
A new Remaining Team Holiday section has been added to the Home screen which allows managers to easily see their team’s Remaining Holiday, Booked Holiday and Taken Holiday. This can be particularly useful towards the end of the holiday year when there is outstanding holiday remaining.
In the above example, Finn has not taken or booked any holiday, and has 18 days remaining.
Ben has booked a small amount of holiday, which he hasn’t yet taken, and has 20.5 days remaining.
Billy has used most of his holiday and has 1 day remaining which he has booked.
If you have employees with different holiday start dates, as in this example, you will see one section for each holiday year.
For further information on the Home screen, please refer to Understanding your home screen as a manager
Week indicator added to work plans
Work plans can be created for multiple weeks (when an employee’s hours vary from week-to-week) by clicking the add a week button on the Admin → Absence → Administer Work Plans screen.
In this example, the employee works a total of 10 hours (08:00 - 19:00) on Tuesday in week 1, but 11 hours (07:00 - 19:00) on Tuesday in week 2.
For employees whose work plans span multiple weeks, it can be difficult determining the hours they work a particular week. To help, a Current Week indicator has been added to the Employees → Absence → Work Plan screen.
Please ensure that the current work plan is selected.
For full information on creating work plans, please refer to Creating a work plan manually
Improved calendar filtering for admins
Admin users now have the ability to either view everyone in the calendar (using the Show everyone filter) or just those people reporting to them (using the My reporting line filter).
To access the calendar, click View Calendar at the top of the screen.
Alternatively, select employees, right-click the relevant folder on the left, and select absence.
The two filter options are available in the dropdown at the bottom-left of the screen.
For full information on viewing a calendar as an admin user, please refer to Viewing employee absence using holiday calendar
Multiple absence types and absence reasons
Multiple absence types and absence reasons can now be created to facilitate absence reporting. Select Admin → Lookups → Manage Lookups → Absence Types and click add to add a new Absence Type.
Enter the absence type name and click save.
Select Admin → Lookups → Manage Lookups → Absence Reasons and click add to add a new absence reason.
Enter a reason, then select the appropriate Type and click save.
Both are now available on the Employees → Absence → Events screen.
They are also available on the Home screen when raising a new request.
And finally, the Toil Approved report has been modified to include the Absence Reason.
For full information on absence, please refer to Absence
Minor changes
Ref | Change |
|---|---|
PEOP-1346 | The Employees → Pay → Pension screen has been simplified with the removal of unnecessary fields. |
PEOP-1387 | Pensions created in Pay Manager are now automatically created in People Manager. Previously they needed to be manually created. |
PEOP-1389 | If you migrate the People Manager database to a new instance of the system, any pensions created in Pay Manger will automatically be created in the new instance of People Manager. Previously, pensions needed to be manually created in the new database. |
PEOP-1394 | The messages section on the Home screen has been increased from 250 to 1000 characters. (New messages are created in Admin → System → Messages.) |