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AU Payroll - Add birthday notifications for staff

Could we include a notification when a staff member has a birthday? This has multiple benefits including allowing us to check if their award salary or benefits need to change and also be able to congratulate them on their birthday. Surely it wouldn't be a huge change to make but would be a unique and helpful change for many SME as I currently need to create a new Google calendar for staff birthdays, creating additional work especially when we have 50+ staff and low retention in hospitality. Thank you.

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submitted  ·  AdminKelly Munro (Community Manager, Xero) responded  · 

Appreciate the interest through the idea, but want to be open that we don't have any development planned for adding reminders or notification of an employees birth date atm. 

I see there are some supporters from NZ and UK in the idea here and wanted to point you across to these specific ideas for each region that I'd encourage adding your support for - Each version of Xero Payroll has been developed specifically for the that regions tax and reporting obligations and this would need to be developed for each version separately. Thanks

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  • Warrick Turner commented  ·   ·  Report

    Very important especially for employees aged under 20 where pay rates need to be adjusted every year on their birthday

  • Tahlia Morphew commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is definitely required to assist with payroll compliance!

  • Carissa Taylor commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is a great idea. Especially since I have a client with employees under the age of 18.

  • Nicki Kidman commented  ·   ·  Report

    This would be an amazing feature for payroll compliance

  • Maria Martin-Perez commented  ·   ·  Report

    we would like to be able to add a Notification / Reminder specific to the employee. Some of our employees need to have their "Right to work" re-checked in the gov.uk website every 2.5 years or so.
    This reminder will ensure HR will not miss the deadline. If their permit had run out, and we miss it, we would be illegally employing and paying them.

  • Ellie Antkiewicz commented  ·   ·  Report

    Can there be warnings when an employee is going to have a birthday that means they need a pay increase, or pension enrolment?
    And similarly one when an employee is about to go over tax thresholds?

  • Mandy Lalor commented  ·   ·  Report

    I would like to be able to opt in for notifications of staff birthdays. Some clients have different pay rates for staff based on their ages and their pay category needs to be manualy updated when they have a birthday. If the staff doesn't inform their employer or it isn't checked each week this can easily be missed.

  • Emily Wheatley commented  ·   ·  Report

    What a great idea, would be good to know who is on morning shout haha