On _______________ On 16 January 2025 Tātou will be releasing an update to the Employee Profile section of the Tātou Office App. This new feature improves the system’s ability to maintain and display historical employment information for both seasonal and permanent employees.
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|   The EMPLOYMENT section will now be comprise of 1 or more Employment Period Sectionsdrop downs. These employment period sections are a combination of:
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After the update, there will be additional columns labeled “currentcurrent_employment_period_…” ... which will allow users to update Employee Information within their Current Employment Period.
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Every employee needs at least one employment period, so as part of the release Tātou will migrate all relevant Employment Period Information currently in the Employee Profile into an open Employment Period based on the current Employee Start Date.
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If an Employee does not have a Start Date on file they will not have a current Employment Period created. This will require action before users are able to use the Bulk Edit and Bulk Import feature for those employees. |
For Organisations Who:
Currently Use Employment Periods
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Run Employee Export so that
You’re starting with the Current Employment Period Information AND
Have the updated column headers
Update Employee Information as required - for more details see our support article here.
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Employment Periods CANNOT overlap. For open-ended contracts (eg e.g. permanent employees) you can leave the end date field empty, but they will need to have an end date set in order to create any future employment periods. |
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IF a Pay Period includes:
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Employee Export and Bulk Import File
The bulk import file and Employee Export will now include updated columns that now include current_employment_period_...column headers to ensure updates made with bulk import files update current employment period records.
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Pro Tip: For INACTIVE seasonal or past employees use the bulk import feature to add a current_employment_period_end_dateto their profile, so that if/when they return a new employment period can be created without producing an error for OVERLAPPING Employment Periods
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Reactivating Returnees?
If your organisation has:
Been using Employment Periods, when employees are reactivated a new Employment Period will be auto-generated for users to edit.
NOT been using Employment Periods, when an employee is reactivated the existing Employment Period will be used as the current Employment Period.