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Last Updated: 2026-05-29
Reference: Payroll Compliance Updates Dashboard

Reference: Payroll Compliance Updates Dashboard

The
Payroll Compliance Updates
 dashboard gives you quick visual insight into the compliance updates that are most important to you. You can quickly identify whether a compliance update potentially impacts your employees and take appropriate action, such as:
  • Alerting employees.
  • Spot-checking payroll results.
  • Being ready to answer questions.
Its drillable worklets enable you to understand the details of what is changing without guesswork or the need to run weekly reports with various criteria.
You can configure the
Payroll Compliance Updates
 dashboard to display 3 worklets:
  • Delivered Last Week
  • Effective Next Month with Employee Impact
  • Other Updates Delivered Last Week or Effective Next Month
They're secured to the
Set Up: Payroll (Taxes View)
 domain in the Core Payroll Functional area.
For Payroll for Australia, Canada, France, the UK, and the U.S., when you want to research compliance-related data (such as tax rates, wage and payment limits, allowances, and minimum wages) a navigation menu makes these reports easier to access.
Set Up
You can set up the
Payroll Compliance Updates
 dashboard from the
Edit
 button on the
Maintain Dashboards
 task.
You can set defaults for the dashboard prompts and select which worklets to display. On the
Prompts
 section, we recommend these default settings.
  • Country
    :
    Default Type
    Default Value
    Determine default value at runtime
    Payroll Supported Default Country
    The country or countries set up in
    Edit Tenant Setup - Payroll
    .
  • Effective as of Date
    :
    Workday bases
    delivered last week
     and
    effective next month
     on the
    As Of
     date.
    Default Type
    Default Value
    Determine default value at runtime
    Today
You can change the Workday prepopulated reports for the menu navigation on the
Menu
 section.
Worklets
Worklet
Description
Delivered Last Week
This worklet displays:
  • Tax and withholding order-related updates delivered in the last 7 days for Payroll for Canada, France, and the U.S.
  • Tax and court order-related updates delivered in the last 7 days for Payroll for the UK.
Drill into each segment of the donut chart and select
View Details
 to see the updates delivered last week for the update group.
Click
View More
 to see all updates delivered last week.
These reports display the
Approximate Employees Impacted
 with the updates having the highest number of employees sorted to the top. The
Applies To
 field specifies the tax authority or category being rolled up to the
Group
.
Effective Next Month with Employee Impact
This worklet displays updates that are effective in the next month when the update group has at least 1 compliance update with an estimated potential impact to your employees for upcoming:
  • Tax and withholding order-related updates for Payroll for Canada, France, and the U.S.
  • Tax and court order-related updates for Payroll for the UK.
Workday presents the data as a column chart, which displays the
Maximum of Approximate Employees Impacted
 for each effective date and update group.
Drill into each column and select
View Details
 to see the updates effective in the next month for the update group.
Click
View More
 to see all updates, including ones that have an approximate number of employees impacted of zero.
These reports display the
Approximate Employees Impacted
 with the updates having the highest number of employees sorted to the top. The
Applies To
 field specifies the tax authority or category being rolled up to the
Group
.
Other Updates Delivered Last Week or Effective Next Month
For Payroll for Canada and the U.S.:
  • This worklet displays minimum wage and lookup table-related updates that were delivered in the last 7 days or effective in the next month.
  • Drill into each segment of the donut chart and select
    View Details
     to see the updates for the update type (lookup table or minimum wage) and update group.
  • Click
    View More
     to see all lookup table and minimum wage updates.
For Payroll for France and the UK:
  • This worklet displays lookup table-related updates that were delivered in the last 7 days or effective in the next month.
  • Drill into each segment of the chart and select
    View Details
     to see the lookup table updates for the update group.
  • Click
    View More
     to see all lookup table updates.
Concepts
These concepts affect what Workday displays in the worklets.
Concept
Description
Update group
Workday summarizes diverse compliance updates into groups.
For Payroll for Canada, separate groups exist for federal and each province. Example: If compliance updates exist for British Columbia Province Income Tax and British Columbia Workers Compensation, they roll up to a British Columbia group.
For Payroll for the UK, separate groups exist for federal, each region, and each NI category. Example: Separate update groups exist for NI category A and NI category M.
For Payroll for the U.S., separate groups exist for federal and each state. Example: If compliance updates exist for 5 Pennsylvania cities, 2 Pennsylvania school districts, and Pennsylvania state withholding, they roll up to a Pennsylvania group.
You can drill into the segments or columns of the worklet charts to see what they comprise.
Approximate Employees Impacted
For this estimate, Workday looks at payroll results that have a period start date, end date, or payment date in the last 30 days based on the
As Of
date, regardless of the payroll result status. This is an estimate of potentially impacted employees only.