The legislative release will incorporate the changes as per the standard requirements. This can potentially change amounts that you have processed in this period. It is essential to make a backup before running a legislative release. 

1. Make a backup of the current dataset.
2. You can only run a Legislative release if all of your employees have a status of Not Processed. 
   • If you have done a Payroll Run and paid the employees the amounts. We advise that you do a pay period update before continuing with step 3.
   • If you have done a Payroll Run and have not yet paid the employees. We advise that you do a clear run flags before continuing with step 3.
3. Navigate  File, Legislative release.
4. Click Next (The legislative Upgrade / Update overview screen).
5. Click Next (The Backup Screen).
6. Click Process (The confirm operation screen).
7. Click Yes on all the prompts that come up.
8. After the prompts a progress indicator screen will appear. 
   • Legislative release can take time to run. It aligns all of the employees and their financial fields to the requirements of the system. Do not end the task during this release even if the system becomes non responsive.  Wait for the release to finish.  The more employees you have, the longer the release can take.
9. Once the Legislative release is done, a message will display advising you that the legislative changes have been made, click on OK.
10. You can cancel the Print To screen, or select a directory to print the changes to.
11. Click Finish.

TIP:  If you did a clear run flags as per step 2b, you will need to re-do your payroll run.  There might be cases where Nett Salaries are different to what they were before. As you have not paid those amounts as yet. You can double check the amounts processed and make the payments based on the new amounts if you are satisfied that all is still in order.

NOTE: Remember to stay on track by watching our video here: