We’ve further streamlined the leave request process by condensing the form steps further.

Previously, the form had separate steps for the breakdown and events; this change combines this information into a single step.

This means fewer clicks and a smoother experience when submitting leave.

Customers using Tanda Payroll will now see the payroll ID for staff when running payroll. This will make it easier to uniquely identify employees.

This has also been added as an option to search within a pay run to find an employee's payslip quickly.

We have updated the tax withholding rates for Study and Training Loans (e.g. HECS). Some key points about these:

The Fair Work Commission's Work Value Case - Aged Care Industry and the Work Value Case - Nurses and Midwives looks at improving pay and job classifications for aged care workers to better reflect the nature of work performed in the sector.

On 11 September 2024, a Decision was handed down by the Fair Work Commission (FWC) to make changes to several awards.

For the Work Value Case -Aged Care Industry, the first phase of wage increases came into effect from 1 January 2025.

For Work Value Case - Nurses and Midwives the first phase of increases came into effect from 1 March 2025.

The second phase of wage increases for the Work Value Cases will take effect from the first full pay period .

These wage increases will automatically be facilitated in the relevant Tanda Managed Award Templates.

The impacted Managed Award Templates are:

For further information on the rates increases please see here.

We’ve released Tanda Pay Advance, giving employees the flexibility to access their wages early, directly through Tanda Payroll.

📚 Read more about this feature here

Stay on top of tax code changes and other HMRC updates with the new HMRC Inbox in Workforce Payroll.

All your HMRC notices (DPS) are now in one place: opt in per payroll integration, mark notices as complete, and get updates automatically every night.

https://help.workforce.com/en/articles/12267525-hmrc-inbox

We have recently made improvements to the Nursery Award Managed Template.

The First Aid Allowance has been improved to now include all purpose allowance functionality.

This aligns the operation of the First Aid Allowance with the terms of clause 18.2 of the Nursery Award. The First Aid Allowance will now be included in the calculation of shift penalties and overtime.

For further details on the improved application of the First Aid Allowance in the Nursery Award Managed Template, please see here.

For a full summary on the Nursery Award Managed Template please see the Nursery Award Managed Template Summary Guide.

Automatically pay out unused leave when an employee’s contract ends in the UK Payroll module.

When you enable the Pay out on termination setting on a leave type, Workforce will prompt you in the pay run to add a termination leave line for any employee whose termination date falls within the pay period.

The balance will be automatically prorated to their termination date.

For more details, check out our help guide: https://help.workforce.com/en/articles/12095218-leave-payout-uk-payroll.

In the coming days, Tanda will commence a staged release of changes to the pay conditions tab of the user profile. There isn't any change to the functional capabilities of the page, only to the way the page is designed.

Tanda is making these changes to make existing workflows clearer and in anticipation of future work to allow the creation of draft employment conditions.

Customers will now have two options when they want to change an employee’s pay conditions:

1.: This button will have the same functionality as is currently behind the ‘Edit Current Pay Conditions’. Functionally, the options behind this button allow users to:

(a) edit the existing employment conditions, by changing the conditions’ start date or by otherwise editing the conditions from their existing start date; and

(b) create new employment conditions, by selecting another option for when the employment conditions should start (e.g. start of current or previous pay cycle).

This option is primarily to allow corrections to existing employment conditions. NB: changes to existing employment conditions without creating new employment conditions may overwrite historical, unlocked data (e.g. timesheet costings). However, we will retain the existing options that create new employment conditions so that we continue to support existing customer workflows. We will be supporting the creation of draft employment conditions in this workflow.

This option allows customers to create new employment conditions that apply from the selected date, including in the future.

NB: We will be removing the existing ‘Schedule Changes’ button. That button’s functionality is retained in the new ‘Add New Conditions’ button.

All things going to plan, Tanda will start rolling the changes today. Customers can expect to be using the new conditions in the next 1 to 3 weeks.

Tanda will be updating our help material in the coming days to reflect the new functionality.

We’ve introduced a manual candidate form, making it easier to build and manage your talent pool.

Now you can add candidates directly—without requiring them to apply for a job first. This gives you more flexibility to keep track of high-quality talent and organize your pipeline more effectively.