UKG Release Notes – March 2026 – R104

UKG Release Notes – March 2026 – R104

UKG Release Notes – March 2026 – R104

Learn more about the most impactful enhancements available in this release by checking out the short Release Spotlight Video.

KEY FEATURES THIS UPDATE
  1. HR:  Users will have the option to deactivate and reactivate existing Account Contacts from their profile. This new feature will control which contacts appear in look up lists throughout the system. Additionally, a new Active column will be added to the Employee Contacts report.
  2. HR: New visibility settings to clearly define when employees and managers/finalizers can access performance ratings, comments, and final scores within the Performance Reviews. Admins can choose between Basic or Advanced visibility settings to support both Sequential and Parallel Reviews.
  3. TLM:  As part of the Basic Scheduling functionality, a new week-based Accrual category will be available to support weekly calculations in work time regulations, reporting, and counters. Admins will also have more visibility when managing Weekly Time Regulation calculations and be able to manually trigger recalculations and receive clear completion messages.
  4. Payroll:   The option to recalculate the General Ledger and Reset the Labor Distribution will be available in the Actions ellipses under the Recently Finalized Payroll section of the Payroll Landing page.
  5. Cross-Prod:  The Checklist Landing screen will now have Mark as Complete and Reset options in the Manager Self-Service (MSS) view for all checklist items.
  6. Cross-Prod:  Admins and managers can now mark all incomplete checklist items as complete with a single click directly from the Checklist Landing screen.
Scheduler
  1. A new option to display daily and forecasted volumes, budgets, and cost comparisons on the Weekly Scheduling view will be available. Schedule admins and managers will also be able to manually input and edit budget values from the schedule.
  2. A new security permission that allows customers to hide shift details from other schedules. When turned off, managers will only see that an employee is scheduled for a time range without showing the schedule name, skill, or cost center details. The permission will be defaulted as on to align with current behavior.
Cross Product
  1. The Checklist Landing screen will now have Mark as Complete and Reset options in the Manager Self-Service (MSS) view for all checklist items.
  2. Admins and managers can now mark all incomplete checklist items as complete with a single click directly from the Checklist Landing screen.
  3. Within the Checklist setup, Checklist Item details, including Item Name and Item Description will be visible.
  4. In the mobile view, Edit Checklist, Upload Documents, Download Checklist, and Mark all as complete will be moved under the Actions ellipses.
  5. The option to drag and drop one or more columns within any responsive report in the desktop experience, including in pop ups and Dashboard Widgets, will be available.
  6. In the Global Search, the employee search result will now show a clear visual indication of their employment status using a Terminated tag alongside their name and role. 
HR
  1. New enhancements to the Emergency Contacts will allow users to manage if their contacts are to be notified in the event their company needs to contact them. These new enhancements align with California's Workplace Know Your Rights Act (SB 294). A new Emergency Contact Notification field to allow or decline the contact from receiving notifications will be introduced. The field will be controlled by a security permission to give the option to view and edit it. The new field will also be available in the Employee Contacts and Employee Information reports.
  2.  Users will have the option to deactivate and reactivate existing Account Contacts from their profile. This new feature will control which contacts appear in look up lists throughout the system. Additionally, a new Active column will be added to the Employee Contacts report.
  3. To align with new California Pay Data Reporting requirements, a new Intermittent Employment Classification setting has been created to allow admins to select whether a specific Employee Status option can be flagged as Intermittent in the reporting.
  4. Dependent Coverage and previously waived scenarios management • Guaranteed Amount: For previously waived coverage, the system will now set Guaranteed Amount to 0 and hold the requested amount pending until EOI is approved. • Coverage Limit Rule: This rule will now refer to the parent plan’s Requested Coverage amount during open enrollment as opposed to the Plan Guaranteed Amount.
  5. A new Evidence of Insurability report will allow for a more simplified review and approval process of EOI requests. The report will provide clear data, mass actions, document preview, and automated employee notifications.
  6. A new audit report that will show only changes to the benefit elections will be available. This Benefit Change Only report includes adding new benefits, changes to current elections, and termination of active benefits.
  7. A new function in the Custom Expression Builder for Remaining Pays Plan Year will be available to create expressions for calculating coverage, premiums, and employee contribution.
  8. The ACA Profile and Effective Date fields will be added to the Employees import template, allowing for ACA Profiles to be assigned to employees via the import file at any time. 
  9. With a new Bryte AI feature, users will be able to refine and summarize performance review comments to help provide clear, substance-driven results. Upon the initial summarization, users will be able to choose to rephrase, simplify, shorten, or expand the comment text.
  10.  New visibility settings to clearly define when employees and managers/finalizers can access performance ratings, comments, and final scores within the Performance Reviews. Admins can choose between Basic or Advanced visibility settings to support both Sequential and Parallel Reviews.
Timekeeping
  1. As part of the Basic Scheduling functionality, a new week-based Accrual category will be available to support weekly calculations in work time regulations, reporting, and counters. Admins will also have more visibility when managing Weekly Time Regulation calculations and be able to manually trigger recalculations and receive clear completion messages.
Payroll
  1. To align with the IRS requirement to report Tipped Occupational Codes (TTOC) for employees in tipped occupations and support the One Big Beautiful Bill legislation, a new option to assign TTOCs to Cost Centers and Jobs will be available. This functionality will drive default behavior based on Cost Center or Jobs (HR) configuration, or be applied to accounts individually, and populate Box 14b on the Form W-2.
  2. The option to recalculate the General Ledger and Reset the Labor Distribution will be available in the Actions ellipses under the Recently Finalized Payroll section of the Payroll Landing page.
  3. To improve the stability of payroll and reduce Payroll Locked errors, a new limitation on which Pay Statement Types will be available to add to a Regular payroll will be put in place. Beginning in R104, the following Pay Statement Types will no longer be an option to add to Regular payrolls: • Payroll Adjustment • Reconciliation Worksheet • Reconciliation Worksheet (Historical) These Pay Statement Types will still be available when creating Off-cycle (Supplemental) payrolls.

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