The Legislative Update, 2021 Update 1 has just been released as a friction less update. Our Friction less update is a staggered release and gets sent to clients in batches. I am happy to announce that the update has already been added to the download manager (a day before the release date)!  Our Friction less update is a staggered release and gets sent to clients in batches. 

The below is some of the features that is included in 2021 Update 1:

• The new 2020/2021 
• A new Demo Company has been created for 2020/2021
• A new transactions and UIF reasons has been added for Parental, Adoption and Commissioning Parental Leave
• The new UI-19 template has been introduced
• A new exception has been added to check that the value of 4582 is not less than 20% or more than 80% of the sum of 3701, 3802 and 3816
• New MIBCO Calendar
• New rates for the Electrical Council (Areas A-O)

For a full list of the changes please refer to our History of Changes Below:

Sage Pastel Payroll HR 2021 Update 1 History of_497794993.pdf

For more information regarding the Budget Speech 2020, please view our Sage City Article.

If you need assistance with downloading and installing this update please view our Guide here.

It is imperative that you run a legislative release in all of your companies incorporate your changes - if you have already paid your first week in the new year on the old tax tables, we advise that you roll over to week 2 and then running the legislative release.  The Tax Amounts will be re-calculated in the following week and will correct all values to the 2020/2021 tax tables.

Microsoft has already ended it's mainstream support for Windows 7 and Server 2008 and will be discontinuing security updates from January 2020.  This does not  affect the current version of 2021 Update 1, however, we want to urge our clients to start investigating the options to upgrade their Operating Systems to more relevant versions of Windows.

Note: Microsoft has stopped their support for windows XP and Server 2003 in 2014 and 2015 respectively.  Due to this, these Operating systems can’t install the .Netframework required for running Payroll and doesn’t  have access to the new fonts used on our update. The Payroll program will no longer work on these operating systems.  For more details on what products we can support please click here.