What's new in Sage 50 HR

Holiday in Hours

This has been the number 1 request from customers, you can now base holidays on working patterns of an employee, same as in Payroll.

You can now record holidays in hours as well as full or half days. However, unlike Payroll it can’tcalculate what holidays are due, but it will record holidays depending on their work pattern.

Absence Dashboard

• In the new Sage 50 HR  there is now a Company Absence Dashboard. This now provides a summary of absence in the business in various graphical formats.

• Based upon the contracted hours and salary of each employee 2010 will now give you a company wide Cost of Absence view which details how much days lost to sickness costs you.

Sagecover Services Stack

• Sage 50 HR customers now get HR Advice Standard free as part of their inclusive Sagecover contract.

Sage 50 HR customers have a new services stack which means they can access the advice service to help manage their people and download forms directly from within their program.

Statement of Employment

• This feature has now also been added to Sage 50 HR. Sage 50 HR 2010 allows you to quickly and easily create astatement of employment for your people based on the details they have entered into HR. The Statement of Employment is generated from information recorded in the employee record, and the layout of the certificate can be customised.

• Employees are entitled to receive a statement of their employment particulars within two months of starting work. This sets out their main employment terms, including the job description, pay, hours of work and any disciplinary or grievance procedures the employer has, notice period and period of employment e.g. temporary or permanent.

Advanced Import

Advanced Import functionality is now also in HR 2010 to help you get information into the software quickly and easily. It allows you to choose which columns to import into and in which order.

• This is a great tool for new customers who want to easily get their data into Sage 50 HR from another application, or if they use spreadsheets which match their business needs rather than the standard Sage 50 HR structure. Through the integration with Payroll 2010, once you have imported the information into one program you can easily import it into the other.

• Like Payroll, you can save a mapped drive for information that you import regularly.

New Employment Type

• In Sage 50 HR 2010 we have added a new feature that allows you to record the type of employment for your people, for example to record if someone is a volunteer, temporary staff or contractor as well as part or full time.

New Screen Filters

• Screen filters have been added to the column headers. This allows customers to customise how lists of information are displayed on the desktop.

Automatic Calculation of Retirement Age

• Sage 50 HR automatically calculates the expected retirement age for all employees based on your company settings. You can also easily run reports on this to manage staff numbers.

Multiple Absences

• In Sage 50 HR you will get an alert if a record overlaps with another e.g. holiday record with training record, sickness record with a holiday record. E.g. if an employee had a half day holiday booked but rang in sick in the morning, it will allow you to record a full day sickness. Separation of Holidays and Absences

• Sage 50 HR treats holidays and absences separately. Both can have a status of requested, authorised or declined.

• You can now record, batch enter and view holiday and absence information independently.

• You can now also pro-rata holiday entitlement for starters and leavers based upon start or leave date

Improved Reports

• You can now report on CRB details and there is a new CRB Report which customers can use. You can now also run a CRB Check Report which will report on those who have a valid CRB check and also when they are due for renewal – & then linked to events and reminders.

• Sage 50 HR has introduced a setting for report favourites to be able to be sent straight to print as opposed to having to preview first.

• The date criteria on holiday and absence reports have been improved, making reporting absences easier if they between 2 months for example. This has been the most common wish list request.

• There is new label printing facility which allows you to print name and address labels for your people.

Access Rights

• Sage 50 HR allowed customers to control access to modules but this was very limited. For example, if you gave access to employee details you could see disciplinary information as well.

• Sage 50 HR now allows customers far more granular control. For example a team manager could have access to employee emergency contact details but not to their bank details.mployment e.g. temporary or permanent.