These release notes cover Monday, the 24th of February to Friday, the 28th of February.

(BAU) Platform + Security

Invalidate Sessions When Accounts are Locked (mobile)

• Description: When a user account is locked on Employment Hero, some active sessions remain valid, posing a serious security risk—especially in cases of suspected or confirmed breaches. If sessions persist, an attacker can continue accessing data despite the lock. To ensure security, all active sessions must be terminated immediately when an account is locked.
• Product features:
  When an EH account is locked, all active sessions are immediately terminated.
  Users are logged out from all devices and EH services, including EH Work and Jobs.
  Mobile apps automatically redirect users to the login page.

eBenefits and Fintech - Money

EWA Recurring Push Notifications

• Objective: Increase awareness of when EWA recurring payments are successful or when and why they are not by sending users push notifications.
• Description: Currently, users of EWA recurring are opting out due to either not receiving any money or not knowing when they have received their money. This is due to the unpredictable nature of recurring by amount. The unpredictability is less of a problem for choosing your own pay cycle but will still be a problem when users also set an amount. The solution includes adding push notifications for all EWA recurring subscriptions.
  • • Recurring by amount
    • Choose your own pay cycle (by day or by day & amount)
  • By default, users are opted out and will need to opt in themselves. User will be alerted whenever there is a:
    • Successful payment - applies for all 3.
    • Failed payment - only applies for by day and amount when there is an insufficient balance.

Payroll

Additional Gender Type

• Objective: To better support inclusivity, decrease data sync issues and misreporting of employee information, an additional Non-Binary gender option will be available to all employee flows.
• Description: Non-Binary gender type has been added to the following areas:
  
  • Employee Profile and Employee Portal.
  • Employee Wizard & Employee Onboarding Wizard.
  • Employee Import/Export File.
  • APIs.
  • Employee details & employee details audit report.
  • Super export files where gender is reported.

Syncing gender type non-binary to payroll

• Description: Previously gender type non-binary was only available in HR and not payroll; therefore, this value would not sync to payroll. Following the payroll teams work to surface non-binary gender types within payroll to better support inclusivity, employees who are assigned a non-binary gender in HR will now have that value sync to payroll.