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You can now include
on-call
and
sleepover
schedules when creating roster patterns in Tanda. These shift types can be added alongside regular shifts:
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The Fair Work Commission recently handed down a Decision to vary the Children's Services Award under the Gender Undervaluation - Priority Awards Review case.
As a result of this Decision, the
Children’s Services Award Managed Template
has been varied, with updates made to align with the outcomes determined by the Fair Work Commission.
Details on the award variation can be found here.
The variation is effective from the first full pay period starting on or after 1 March 2026.
The updates are now available in your account. For the details on the action steps required for these updates, please see the summary of updates here.
The help guide for the Children’s Services Managed Template can be found here.
The Cleaning Services Award 2020 is now a Managed Template in Tanda!
Find this among the other award templates under
Time & Attendance
>
Compliance
>
Award Templates
.
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This includes functionality such as:
  • Automated penalty periods
  • Automated overtime conditions
  • TOIL agreement conditions
  • Higher duties
  • Allowances
  • Break rules
We've just launched a new POS integration with
Smart Retail (World Smart)
. You can learn more about setting up this integration Here.
Find this under
Settings
>
Integrations
>
POS Integrations
:
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We’re starting to release a new and improved version of the
Leave Calendar
! This is currently only available in some accounts, but will be rolled out to everyone soon (or accessed Here).
You’ll see the following new features to help make reviewing leave easier:
  • Number of requests clearly displayed on each day
  • Heat mapping of employee leave and unavailability requests
  • Sidebar to clearly see and action employees with leave and unavailability
  • Decline, approve and edit leave and unavailability directly from the calendar
  • Daily, weekly and monthly views
  • Calendar subscription support
  • Leave type and Team filters
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Access this via
Time & Attendance
>
Leave
>
Leave Tools
>
Leave Calendar
.
You can read more about the new leave calendar here.
When providing the details of their emergency contact, employees can now add multiple emergency contacts to their profile through the mobile app, rather than being limited to just one.
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You can now configure leave types in NZ Tanda Payroll as a specific
Public Holiday Paid / Not Worked
entitlement.
This ensures the right default calculations are applied, using Normal Daily Pay and Average Daily Pay where required:
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Previously, this might have required manual intervention on payslips.
You can now use Autopaid Salary Earnings in the UK to make salary templates ECS-driven (percentage-based) instead of relying on fixed hours/salary inputs.
What’s new?
You will now see 2 tables in a User's Payroll Details:
  1. One for Wage
  2. One for Allowances / additional earnings
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You can now also set Ordinary Hours templates (e.g. salary) to use a percentage, so earnings are calculated from the employee’s ECS rather than a fixed set of hours/salary.
Going forward, any templates created automatically will be percentage-based by default.
Do I need to do anything?
Not usually.
If an employee has multiple templates and you want their salary to be ECS-driven (percentage-based), you can update them by:
  • Setting the old template(s) to 0 hours and 0 cost
  • Adding a percentage to the template you want to use going forward
Learn more in our Help Guide.
You may notice that some of the
Earnings Rates
in your account now look a little different.
When an earnings rate is created from a
Tanda-managed award template
, most of its attributes are automatically synced from that template. Previously, these fields could be edited, but any changes would be overwritten the next time timesheets were exported.
What’s New
  • Synced fields are now disabled to prevent any accidental edits.
  • A message explains why those fields are locked.
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  • Award-linked earnings rates now display a
    Managed
    badge in the list.
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  • You can still edit the associated Journal Account.
This change makes it clearer what is controlled by the award template and helps avoid confusion from unexpected changes.

new

Rostering

Employee Profile

Shift Swap Visibility on Profiles

When viewing an employee's roster on their profile, you can now see which shifts have been swapped and where they were swapped to. This follows the recent changes to make it easier to track shift swap history and understand how an employee's roster has changed through swaps and declined shifts.
What’s New
  • Swapped shifts show a visual indicator displaying who the shift was swapped with
  • Shifts the employee gave away appear grayed out
  • Shifts the employee received through a swap appear normally
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View this on the
employee's profile
>
Time & Attendance
>
Rosters
.
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