June 30th 2022, Release Notes: HS | Labor 5.64: Offered Shifts Report, Certification Report Changes, Meal and Break Planning

Summary

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Release date for all features: June 30th 2022

Staff List Details Certifications

• Enabled by Default? - Yes
• Set up by customer Admin? - No
• Enable via Support ticket? - No
• Affects configuration or data? - No
• Roles Affected: - Store Managers

What's Changing?

This feature updates the Staff List Details Certification list to only display certifications that are currently assigned to an employee. 

Reason for the Change

Limiting the Certifications display to assigned certifications greatly reduces the area Certifications utilize on the Staff List Details page.

Customers Affected

All customers using employee Certifications.

Release Note Info/Steps

The new methods for adding or removing Certifications follow the same pattern in place for Job assignments. New Certifications are added to an employee via the dropdown menu above the Certification list.  To remove a certification from an employee simply click on the Delete icon. 

Employee Certification Report

• Enabled by Default? - Yes
• Set up by customer Admin? - No
• Enable via Support ticket? - No
• Affects configuration or data? - No
• Roles Affected: - Store Managers

What's Changing?

A new version of the Employee Certifications Report is now live for all users.

Reason for the Change

The new version of the report features filtering capabilities and adds the employee HR ID and POS ID to the report as additional columns.

Customers Affected

All customers using employee Certifications.

Release Note Info/Steps

The new version of the report replaced the previous version of the report.  There are no changes to report access in the report menu.

Offered Shifts Report

• Enabled by Default? - No
• Set up by customer Admin? - Yes
• Enable via Support ticket? - No
• Affects configuration or data? - No
• Roles Affected: - Store Managers

What's Changing?

The new Offered Shifts Report is now available for locations that are utilizing the Offered Shift functionality.

Reason for the Change

The Offered Shifts Report gives users the ability to review who received offered shifts and staff responses to shifts they were offered.

Customers Affected

All customers using Offered Shifts for scheduling.

Release Note Info/Steps

• The Offered Shifts Report is available to locations that have Scheduling - Offered Shifts enabled.
• The report is available on the Reports Dashboard as Offered Shifts Report under Staff & Store.
• The report can is run by date range and can be filtered by Response Type and/or grouped by Offered Employee or Shift.

Meal and Break Planning- Earliest/Latest Start Time

• Enabled by Default? - Yes
• Set up by customer Admin? - No
• Enable via Support ticket? - No
• Affects configuration or data? - No
• Roles Affected: - ASC Configuration

What's Changing?

This feature introduces optional "Earliest" and "Latest” Start Time attributes to Meal and Break Planning when “Apply Meals/Breaks to Shifts” is enabled, and updates the Meal and Break Planning algorithm to limit meal placement based on the Earliest and/or Latest Start Time.

Reason for the Change

The updated Meal and Break Planning algorithm gives users more control over when a meal can or must be taken.  Utilizing the "earliest" and "latest" times helps keep meals more central to the shift segment.  This will help resolve issues where meals might otherwise be automatically applied late in the shift, after it was required to be taken by law.

These changes to not apply to Breaks

Customers Affected

All customers using Meal and Break Planning where the rule set is configured to “Apply Meals/Breaks to Shifts.”

Release Note Info/Steps

• If a Meal and Break Planning rule set is configured to “Apply Meals/Breaks to Shifts” the “Earliest Start Time” and “Latest Start Time” optional fields are available to be assigned to Meals in the rule set.  Each optional field can be configured in hours and 15-minute increments.
• An Earliest Start Time will keep meals from being automatically allocated before the defined hours/minutes after shift start.  For example an Earliest Start Time of 45 minutes would limit the meal start placement to 1:45pm or later if the shift starts at 1:00pm.
• A Latest Start Time will keep meals from being automatically allocated after the defined hours/minutes before shift end.  For example a Latest Start Time of 1 hour would limit meal start placement to 4pm or earlier if the shift ends at 5pm.

ASC Spanish Translations

• Enabled by Default? - Yes
• Set up by customer Admin? - No
• Enable via Support ticket? - No
• Affects configuration or data? - No
• Roles Affected: - ASC Users

What's Changing?

We have added Spanish translations to the following pages in the ASC:

Configure > HS Permissions  Sets

Configure >Analytics

Reason for the Change

We are continuing to add translation strings to the ASC, that way users who choose the Spanish language will see it across the ASC. Each section in the ASC will eventually have the appropriate Spanish translations.

Customers Affected

All users that have defined a Spanish locale in the ASC.

Release Note Info/Steps

The translations are available by default for users that have defined a Spanish locale in the ASC.

Mobile: Estimated Earnings

• Enabled by Default? - Yes
• Set up by customer Admin? - No
• Enable via Support ticket? - No
• Affects configuration or data? - No
• Roles Affected: - Mobile Apps

What's Changing?

We are now displaying the estimated earnings/loss for a shift transaction to an employee when they attempt to complete a shift pickup, release, or swap on the HS mobile app.

Reason for the Change

Adding the estimated earnings/loss to shift transactions will give employees the ability to make a more informed decision when choosing to pick up, release, or swap a shift.

Customers Affected

All customers.

Release Note Info/Steps

The display of estimated earnings for shift transactions is enabled for all companies. 

Estimated earnings are the potential hourly earnings (wage rate * time) for the scheduled shift and do not include potential overtime, projected tips, premium, predictability, or fair workweek pay.