Release guide – v4.35.0 - Unreleased

Overview

This article outlines the release details, system availability, and included changes for this version of Easy Employer.

Release Information

What Is Included

This release tightens timesheet approvals and pay cycle handling, fixes a number of roster, leave and report issues, speeds up payroll processing, and includes security improvements.

Improvements

• Reports load one at a time: changing report settings quickly no longer starts a new load for every change. The report shows your latest choice once the current load finishes. If you open the same report in another tab, refresh, or export to Excel while a report is still loading, you'll be asked to wait for it to finish first.
• Faster payroll processing: payroll reports, leave exports and award timesheet calculations now make far fewer database lookups, which speeds them up for organisations with many employees.
• Smoother background processing: shift cost recalculations now run separately from other background tasks, so those tasks are less likely to be held up.

Fixes

• Timesheet
  • Timesheet approvals and blocking warnings: bulk approving timesheets now respects blocking warnings. A shift with a blocking warning can only be approved by someone with permission to bypass it.
  • Overtime on unscheduled shifts: an unscheduled shift that triggers an award condition, such as a less than required break, or that has a forced interpretation period, is now paid under that condition instead of being pushed into period overtime.
  • Leave across pay cycles: a leave shift that belongs to the previous pay cycle, because it continues on from a shift that started there, is now approved, counted and finalised with that pay cycle on both the employee and site timesheets.
• Roster
  • Recurring leave conflicts: recurring leave with an end date no longer shows as a conflict on every shift until it ends. Conflicts now show only on the days the leave actually falls on.
  • Unpaid breaks on the classic roster: the unpaid break is now put back when a shift is shortened and then lengthened again, or when only the start time is moved.
  • Shift length in the new roster: the shift dialog now labels the start-to-end time as "Shift length", and the shift template list shows the duration excluding breaks.
• Leave
  • Removed leave types: leave types that have been removed no longer appear in employees' entitlement balances.
• Time clock
  • Clocked shift warnings: fixed an error that could stop warnings loading when viewing a clocked shift's details.
• Reports
  • Working Users Report: the report heading is shown again in the new interface.
• Others
  • Billing items: a role removed from a billing item can now be added back.

Security

• We've made security improvements as part of our ongoing work to keep your data safe.