iSolved’s upcoming release includes some new features, as well as preparations for year-end filings. This release was deployed on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. The release included the following enhancements and updates:
HR & Payroll
- Individual employee messages
- Fix to correct rate override for Washington L&I
- Additional federal and state withholding amounts are now displayed on Pay History screen
Benefits
- 2020 ACA and state filings
Time
- Allow multiple meal adjustments on a single day
Continue reading below for more detail on each of these updates.
HR & Payroll
Individual employee messages
Client users can now send messages, links, and documents to individual employees. Previously, employee messages would be displayed for all employees. This new functionality allows you to share messages with a single employee. These messages will be set up under Employee Messages and then associated with the employee under a new menu item called Employee Message Assignment.
Company-wide messages will still be visible on the Employee Messages screen, but personalized messages will be shown in the separate My Assigned Messages section.
Additional instructions for adding employee messages can be found here.
Fix to correct rate override for Washington L&I
Previously, employers could not split employee time between multiple Washington Workers’ Compensation codes. All L&I calculations were based on the employee’s default Washington workers’ compensation code assignment. With this release, an employer can split the employee’s hours in time entry and enter different Workers’ Comp Overrides. The system will recognize the different rates and calculate the Washington L&I based on those different codes. This fix also applies when Workers’ Compensation code overrides are imported using Timecard Import.
This will only be effective moving forward unless you regenerate Workers’ Comp calculations for previous payrolls. If you have questions about this fix or need assistance with the regeneration of Workers’ Comp calculations on previous payrolls, please reach out to your assigned payroll specialist.
Additional federal and state withholding amounts are now displayed on Pay History screen
New fields have been added to the Pay History screen in order to display any federal or state additional withholding amounts that the employee has elected. This was previously shown on the Pay Stub, but not on the Pay History screen.
Benefits
2020 ACA and state filings updated
For customers using isolved for Benefits Administration with ACA Compliance, the updated product release includes files Insperity will use to satisfy new 2020 individual mandate filing requirements for employees in California and Rhode Island. Additional information on state filing mandates can be found in the 2020 Year-End Guide.
Time
Allow for multiple meal adjustments on a single day
California employers that must pay for a second meal when an employee works more than 10 hours can now receive missed meal alerts for the second meal. For example:
- An employee punches in from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
- Two meals are required for the day, based on the meal rules associated with the employee’s shift or policy group.
- The employee misses punching out for both meals.
- Two missing meal alerts will now show on the hour record.
- Two additional hours of meal penalty time will be generated, one from each alert.
