Logic has been enhanced to adhere to the required W2 mapping for the New York Healthcare Bonus.

1. Under Admin Tools > Transaction Type, the standard Healthcare NY Bonus will populate the W2Box field with ‘14’ and the W2Label field with ‘Healthcare worker bonus’. This will map the Healthcare Bonus value toBox 14with a label ofHealthcare worker bonus
2. The logic for the Healthcare NY Bonus Transaction Type [System Name of HWSBNY] the wages will populate inBox 1andBox 16.

What is the new feature?

Updates to Canadian Default Claim Code Exemptions for 2023

Why did we do that?

We have made the following updates to the Canadian exemption amount effective 1/1/2023 to adhere to Canada Revenue Agencies compliance updates.

·        Federal Claim Code: updated to 15,000

·        Yukon Claim Code: updated to 15,000

·        Alberta Claim Code: updated to 21,003

·        British Columbia Claim Code: updated to 11,981

·        Manitoba Claim Code: updated to 10,855

·        New Brunswick Claim Code: updated to 12,458

·        Newfoundland and Labrador Claim Code: updated to 10,382

·        Northwest Territories Claim Code: updated to 16,593

·        Nunavut Claim Code: updated to 17,925

·        Ontario Claim Code: updated to 11,865

·        Prince Edward Island Claim Code: updated to 12,000

·        Saskatchewan Claim Code: updated to 17,661

·        Quebec Claim Code: updated to 17,183

What is the new feature?

Update to the Manitoba Health and Post-Secondary Education Tax Levy Exemption for 2023

Why did we do that?

We have made the following updates for Manitoba Health and Post-Secondary Education Tax Levy Exemption effective 1/1/2023.

• Default exemption: $2,000,000
• Default rate [unchanged]: 4.3%

Province of Manitoba | finance - Health and Post-Secondary Education Tax Levy (gov.mb.ca)

Customers who have manual configurations for MB HELEVY ER in Admin Tools > Employer > Tax will want to end date their existing configuration for 2022 and enter a new configuration for 2023.

What is the new feature?

Addition of Standard Occupational Classification Codes

Why did we do that?

With this enhancement, additional Standard Occupational Classification [SOC] Codes have been made available at a more granular level by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Therefore, this inactivated previously supplied SOC Codes. See below for how to mitigate inactive codes.

You will want to access the following location:

Admin Tools > Skill Code

The SOC LookUp screen will now display 2 additional columns:

Inactive: The new inactive column will aid the user to see the Standard Occupational Classification Codes [SOC] that are no longer active and with the addition of the DRM, the user will be notified if they are using an inactive SOC code. It is at this point that you would want to select the more granular code that your selection is being replaced by.

The Warning displayed in this case is: "A Job Position with an active Standard Occupational Code is required for SUI filings for this worksite state."

Grouping: The new groupings column will aid the user in filtering down to the proper SOC code. Groupings include:

• Major
• Minor
• Broad
• Detailed

KB Article updated:

Standard Occupational Code (SOC) Support

What is the new feature?

New Time Entry DRM for Transaction Types with default Reg Rate

Why did we do that?

This DRM will provide the user a warning if their Default Regular Rate transaction type has a zero pay rate value in Time Entry > Sheetview.

With the addition of this DRM, if the user has a Transaction Type configured with the selection of Default Regular Rate, and the pay rate has a zero value in Time Entry Sheetview [most commonly to occur with imports], the user will be notified of the zero pay rate value for those transaction types.

DRM Name: tbv_CheckForZeroRateOnDefault

KB Article updated:

DRMs Time Entry

What is the new feature?

Time Entry DRM to identify missing and/or invalid SIN

Why did we do that?

Enhanced audit logging has been added to verify Canadian Social Insurance Numbers [SIN] using the Luhn algorithm. A Time Entry DRM will warn the user when there are missing or invalid Social Insurance Numbers.

Another DRM will warn the user when the SIN value is all zeros.

DRM Names: tbv_ValidateEmployeeSIN, tbv_CheckForZeroSin

KB Article updated:

DRMs Time Entry

What is the new feature?

Added the Colorado Paid Family Medical Leave [PFML] 1/1/2023

Why did we do that?

Paid Family Medical leave can now be configured in Admin Tools> Employer > Locality/Country

KB Article updated

State Paid Family Medical Leave Acts

What is the new feature?

Added Oregon Paid Family Medical Leave [PFML] 1/1/2023

Why did we do that?

Paid Family Medical leave can now be configured in Admin Tools> Employer > Locality/Country

KB Article updated

State Paid Family Medical Leave Acts

What is the new feature?

Weekly Process - Generate T4/T4A validation updates

Why did we do that?

More comprehensive validation of the employee data for Generate T4s and T4A’s has been added

As a result of this enhancement, the user will be more informed if there are missing or inaccurate data for Employee Address, Province, Postal Code, First Name, Last Name, and Social Insurance Number [SIN]

KB Article updated:

T4/T4A Setup and Generation Errors List

What is the new feature?

Arizona Withholding Rate updates for Jan 1, 2023

Why did we do that?

We have made the following compliance updates effective 1/1/2023:

Arizona Withholding Rates: .5%, 1.0%, 1.5%, 2.0%, 2.5%, 3.0%, 3.5%

For employees who do not submit a form default rate to 2.0% will be used.

Vertex update release December 20th to make the rates visible in CLASSIC Employee > Payroll > Tax

Note: Both 2022 and 2023 rates will display until the January Monthly release.

KB Article updated:

Arizona Withholding Updates for Jan. 1, 2023

What is the new feature?

Provide more comprehensive error handling for when Coverage Offer Generator times out in the ACA Companion

Why did we do that?

With this enhancement, this update will provide a more intuitive message when the ACA companion monthly Coverage Offer Generator job is stuck.

What to expect:

Displayed Message: Unable to generate employee monthly coverage offer records.  Another job instance is running.

When the User encounters this error, they will have to submit a request to have the Administrator perform a back-end update to resolve the data conflict. 

KB Article updated:

ACA Companion - Error Messages

What is the new feature?

New suppliers added to the Employee | Contact Method | Cell Phone suppliers

Why did we do that?

With this enhancement the following providers have been added to the Cell Phone available suppliers:

• Spectrum
• Optimum
• Xfinity
• Claro

KB Article updated:

Employee Contact Method