You can now easily see when an employee has. This is especially useful when an employee changes from Full Time/Part Time to Casual.

On the employee profile, find the tab under :

The future leave requests for the leave type they are no longer entitled to are displayed here and can easily be converted to an leave type or .

You can now configure award rules to apply to an entire shift when the majority of hours are worked .

For example, if most of a shift is worked between midnight and 8:00am, the can now automatically be paid at the shiftwork penalty rate. This expands on the existing functionality that allows rules to apply based on the majority of hours being worked on a particular .

Find this option under the section of your award rule.

Tanda now supports for salaried employees, based on an employee’s .

Configure this under > > .

Staff can adjust their shifts throughout the day or at the end of the period to reflect the actual hours worked. The timesheet then to validate these hours.

You can learn more about this feature in this help guide.

We've just improved how the is calculated and displayed within Tanda.

You'll now see a table showing the Current Balance, Projected Balance, and Already-approved leave.

This change improves visibility surrounding leave balances when requesting leave, and also calculates the projected balance more accurately.

Managers reviewing on the mobile app will now see the and the of employees on the replacement request:

This now matches what is shown on the web version.

You can now configure award rules to extend the shift length up to the nearest increment (in minutes).

Find this option under the section of your award rule.

The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) amended the Pay Guide for the Children's Services Award. The updated pay guide stipulates additional hourly rates for apprentices who have .

The has been updated to reflect this change.

If you currently engage first or second year apprentices who have , you will need to of the applicable employees to one of the below classifications:

The Help Guide for the Children's Services Managed Template can be found here.

We have updated how shift penalties are calculated when a shift borders both sides of a sleepover schedule.

This change has been made in light of the recent Fair Work Commission Decision to vary the terms of the Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award 2010 (SCHADS Award). In this Decision, the Fair Work Commission clarified that when a shift is rostered immediately before and immediately after a sleepover period, the two periods of work are to be treated separately for the purposes of calculating shift penalties.

For example, the shift before the sleepover period is now calculating at the afternoon shift penalty and the shift after the sleepover period is now calculating at the day shift penalty:

To read more about this variation and the other variations to the SCHADS Award, please see the Decision and Determination.

For a summary of the changes to the SCHADS Award, please see here.

Please note that the sleepover schedule automation is not currently configured in the SCHADS Award Managed Templates in Tanda.

Further communications will be sent in the coming weeks regarding updates to the Tanda SCHADS Award Managed Templates to align with the terms of this variation and any actions you may need to take in your account.

You can now request a candidate’s availability as part of the hiring process.

When a candidate reaches a chosen stage (for example, Shortlisted), they’ll receive an email prompting them to submit their availability. Once completed, their availability is displayed on the candidate details page and, if they’re hired, carries through to their employee profile.

Admins can configure a default availability email, deadline and triggering stage for each job ad under > , or for all new job ads under Job Ad Defaults.

Tanda Payroll now supports . This is designed for leave types such as parental leave or workers compensation, where employees are paid a fixed amount provided by a government body or insurer (for example, a set daily payment).

You can now choose from the following payment methods in the Leave Type:

Tanda will automate the statutory payment rate for parental leave by selecting the 'Use automated Services Australia Parental Leave Pay rate" option.

The STP type will need to be set to "paid parental leave" for this setting to be visible.

Once configured, approved leave requests will export to payslips using the selected fixed rate:

Important notes