We've made a few more updates to Tanda Hire:

You can now set **deadlines on forms** sent to candidates during the hiring process, helping you track completion and spot when forms are overdue.

Following on from the phone call logging functionality introduced here, you can now log and fill out in the Phone Calls tab of a candidate's profile.

To attach and fill out an Interview Form when calling a candidate, navigate to their profile > > and select the interview form template to be filled out.

Responses will be logged here and under the Answers tab.

We’ve updated the feature, allowing you to type a query in plain English, which the AI interprets to find the relevant report .

This is also now built into the main search bar. You can still search for reports as normal, but press or click to run the query through the AI.

Queries can include information like:

Some examples include:

This makes it faster to get the exact data you need without manually setting filters.

For salaried employees paid , the hourly rate shown on payslips can now be consistent across all pay periods.

This calculation method can be optionally switched on under > > :

Previously, the hourly rate varied depending on the number of days/hours in the month, even though the salary amount stayed the same. This also caused leave liability balances to fluctuate.

Now, the system can use an annual average to calculate a stable hourly rate each period, resulting in a consistent hourly rate on every payslip, stable leave balance and liability calculations, and no change to the employee’s actual salary per period

New classifications for are now available.

The Fair Work Commission handed down a Decision to vary the Health Professionals and Support Services Award under the Gender-based Undervaluation Priority Awards Review case. As a result of this Decision, the Health Professionals and Support Services Award has been varied.

Details on the award variation can be found here.

We have updated the in Tanda to align with the outcomes determined by the Fair Work Commission.

The new classifications are now available in the managed template. Please see here for a full summary of the updates.

The help guide for the Health Professionals and Support Services Award Managed Templates can be found here.

It’s now easier than ever to make the switch from Xero to Tanda Payroll! We’ve just released a way to automatically import employee payroll data directly from Xero without needing to export and upload CSV files manually.

A new option is now available under . With your Xero account connected, Tanda will fetch your employee data and allow you to preview the results before confirming the import.

Learn more about this process in this help guide.

Nest requires a reason when an employee has zero employer and employee pension contributions in a pay period.

When you run payroll, we'll flag these employees and prompt you to select a valid reason, which we’ll send to Nest with the submission for that pay period.

We’ve just released the for all Tanda HR users (AU), a collection of ready-made training courses that you can assign to your team! These courses are managed by Tanda and are included in your Tanda HR subscription at no additional cost.

Training modules include topics such as Workplace Health & Safety, Discrimination & Harassment, Knife Safety, Allergies and Dietaries and more. Each module is built into the same format as custom Training Templates in Tanda, and includes video/text content as well as interactive quizzes. Certain sections also allow editing to make the courses more suited to your business.

This is the first iteration of managed training content, with more modules planned for release in the future. Find this under > > .

Learn more about this feature here.

We’ve recently made updates in Tanda Payroll to ensure allowances report their tax-free portions correctly to STP. In doing so, you may have noticed differences when comparing Tanda pay run data with the ATO portal.

This difference stems from the tax-free portion of allowances like Laundry Allowances, which is now reported alongside the taxed portions.

To make it easier to reconcile these amounts, we've added a new in pay runs, showing the taxable earnings plus any tax-free allowance amounts that have been reported to STP.

Additionally, we've added an to the Activity Details Report.

Expanding on the recent parental consent update in Tanda Hire, we are now introducing parental consent when new employees as well.

When inviting an employee through paperless onboarding, if they are below the configured age threshold, they will be prompted to provide a parent or guardian’s details. An email will then be sent requesting a digital signature to confirm consent for employment.

Onboarding cannot be completed until the consent form has been signed.

You can configure the minimum age threshold for parental consent in onboarding under each (Workforce > Teams > Location > Advanced Options).

Salaried employees now have their leave , without needing to export timesheets.

When you create an in-cycle pay run from the Pay Runs page, approved leave requests will now automatically be included alongside their Salary Template, streamlining the payroll process when timesheets aren't normally used.

Note that exporting timesheets with leave will still work as before and won’t result in duplicate leave entries on salaried payslips.