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.

Pre-Payroll (Leave Management)

Leave Rounding for Holiday Entitlement Leave

• Description: Clients will be able to select a leave rounding rule to round up partial leave entitlements to either:
  • • The nearest 0.5 day/hour increment.
    • The whole day/hour increment.
  • When creating/editing a leave type, clients can enable/disable their leave rounding rule for this leave type. Note that the leave rounding rule will only be enabled/enforced when:
    • The leave type is entitlement-based.
    • Leave type provides leave in Hours or Days (not weeks).
    • Leave policy provides an annual entitlement (not monthly, weekly, etc.).
    • Leave Calendar: Allow leave to be added through the calendar.
• Objective: To improve the UX of the Leave Calendar in the UK to make it more intuitive by allowing users to initiate a leave request by clicking on a day in the Leave Calendar.

Custom Leave Reasons

• Description: Our current Leave Reason feature includes a predefined list of sick reasons for employers to use. However, some employers require the flexibility to customise these reasons to better align with their internal policies, industry-specific needs, and reporting requirements.
  They can now manage their custom leave reasons under the new Leave Settings> Advanced Settings tab so that they can accurately track their staff's absenteeism in line with their company's policies.
• Note: The custom reason will only pick up in the Sickness Report if it's been used against a leave type containing the work 'Sick'.

UK HR/PY

Sync UK payroll documents to the EH HR platform

• Description: Currently, employees are unable to access any payroll documents on the EH platform and can only access them via the Payroll platform. We want to allow employees of HR + PY connected businesses the ability to view and download their P60 documents in the HR platform.
• Solution: There is a new Payroll document type within the document widget in employee files and also in Documents under Compliance. This release covers the P60 document syncing to HR for viewing/downloading by employees once the documents have been published and sent out in Payroll (other payroll documents will follow).