What’s New

Release Date: 12/7/2017 Home Screen Redesign – please see Workday for current HR/Payroll information: Historical Payroll Documents Historical Insurance Documents New Benefit Document Uploads Main Features Removed – please see Workday for this information: Payroll Options and Documents Current Benefits Personal Data such as Contact Information, etc. Minor Features Removed Net Pay Estimator Maximum Contribution Limit (MCL) Estimator TRS Retirement Calculator Social Security Calculator Department Administrator Role Features Added Benefit Document ...

On April 20th, 2017, a hot fix was made to HRConnect to better protect employees’ direct deposit information.  Before changing your direct deposit information, your identity will be further challenged by asking you to provide and verify your current payroll bank account number: Once you have passed the elevated identity check, you will be given access ...

Changes due to new employee statuses in BPP: Fellows, Military Leave Dependents, Non-Employees, Inactive Non-Employees. Individuals with new employee statuses are displayed in Employee Search results Fellows and Military Leave Dependents can see beneficiary data. Fellows and Non-Employees can update their work address. Fellows and Military Leave Dependents can change permissions for insurance-related e-mails. Retirees, Terminated Employees, and Inactive Non-Employees ...

Enhancements Added Form 1095-C delivery method notification and update feature: A notification will appear annually for all employees asking them to verify their Form 1095-C delivery method. This delivery method can also now be updated via the Form 1095-C page, located when accessing Payroll page. Also, a small change was made to the button layout of Form 1095-C and ...

Enhancements Made the Employee Disability selection optional for those who have not specified a selection. Benefit rules now require enrollment in medical coverage before SSN data entry is expected. Minor field label/tab heading text changes.  

Enhancements Added a message to be displayed on the Home screen when HRConnect is running in read-only mode because of system maintenance. Added the Disability field for employee’s to self-specify their ADA status. Changed the “Gender” label to “Sex”. Bug Fixes Fixed a problem formatting negative pay amounts that kept some employees from seeing their payroll summary information. Fixed a problem ...

The newest 1042-S form for tax year 2014 will now be available for all applicable employees on the 1042-S screen, accessible from the Payroll Documents screen.

Version 2.2 of HRConnect includes the new Dependents screen with dependent SSN entry, the display messaging system, and a minor change to a veteran status option. The Dependents screen contains the following dependent information: name, relationship, birth date, UIN, whether or not they’re a tobacco user, and whether or not there is an SSN on file ...

Version 2.1.2 of HRConnect is a hotfix release that corrects problems with the display of accounting system direct deposit links for employees of system members that do not use FAMIS, the Net Pay Estimator’s calculations with respect to tobacco and wellness pre-tax status, and the linking of W-2s to a small group of employees with ...

Version 2.1.1 of HRConnect is a minor maintenance release to correct problems with the printing of charitable donation lines on pay stubs, the auto-expiration of “flash” messages, and the display of result messages while updating direct deposit information.

Version 2.1 of HRConnect re-introduced the financial calculators that users had at their disposal in the old version of HRConnect, including: Net Pay Estimator Maximum Contribution Limit Estimator Annuity Calculator Savings Calculator In addition, this version also implements the Department Administrator and Central Administrator roles.  Administrators granted access in Single Sign On (SSO) can view selected portions of their employees’ ...

While HRConnect 2 remains in its pilot stage, the following updates where made in version 2.0.1: A bug causing some employees to not see their retirement plan on the Benefits Home screen was fixed. Employees’ bank routing and account numbers were masked on the Payroll Direct Deposit Change Log screen. The pay date value was added to the ...

With little fanfare, the pilot release of HRConnect 2.0.0 was rolled out on May 16th, 2013 to a limited group of departments at several member institutions. Most employee-centric function found in the legacy HRConnect application were included in the release, however, a few features have not yet been completed or are waiting on other systems to ...

After remaining virtually unchanged for several years, HRConnect is undergoing a major technology upgrade that will result in a new and improved user experience. The first release of HRConnect 2 is scheduled to be pilot-tested by a select group of departments during the summer of 2013 and will include most of the important employee-centric functions of ...