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In the occasion that Employment Hero platforms are experiencing major performance issues, we'll update you on the status here, in real time.

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Payroll
Resolved

Payroll Platform - Performance Degraded

Last updated:
Mar 14, 2024 11:39 AM
March 14, 2024

11:20am

Payroll platform performance has been restored.

Thank you for your patience.

11:05am

Our engineers are urgently investigating the degraded performance on the Payroll platform.

We apologise for the inconvenience.

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Payroll
Resolved

Payroll - Intermittent Degraded Performance

Last updated:
Mar 13, 2024 4:50 PM
March 12, 2024

4:45pm (13/3)

Yesterday's issue of degraded performance on Payroll has been mitigated and platform performance continues to be normal.

Thank you for your patience.

1:10pm (13/3)

Our engineers are continuing their investigation into yesterday's issue.

Whilst these investigations are ongoing, our mitigation strategies remain in place and we are monitoring closely.

Payroll performance remains normal.

Thank you.

6:00pm (12/3)

Our engineers are still investigating this mornings performance issues.

Mitigation strategies remain in place and we will continue to monitor closely.

Payroll performance remains normal.

Thank you for your continued patience.

2:45pm (12/3)

Our engineers are still investigating the cause of the performance issues earlier in the day.

Mitigation remains in place and Payroll is performing normally.

Thank you for your continued patience.

11:00am (12/3)

A number of temporary mitigation strategies have been enacted to return Payroll to normal performance levels.

Our Engineering team continues to investigate the cause of the issue.

9:55am (12/3)

Our engineers are currently investigating intermittent performance issues on our Payroll platform.

We appreciate your patience.

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Payroll
Resolved

Payroll AU - STP submission delays.

Last updated:
Feb 29, 2024 1:34 PM
February 27, 2024

Feb 29, 1:30pm

We have successfully processed the STP submissions impacted by the recent delays.

If you are still experiencing any issues with your submission, please don't hesitate to contact Support.

We appreciate your patience and understanding throughout this issue.

Feb 27, 7:05pm

We are currently experiencing delays with STP submissions due to issues with a downstream partner.

Our engineers are working through any submissions showing as delayed or failed to remediate and no action is required by customers.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

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Payroll
Resolved

Payroll - Super batch validation errors.

Last updated:
Feb 1, 2024 6:35 PM
February 1, 2024

Feb 1, 2024 6:35 PM

Our engineers have confirmed that the issue preventing customers from validating super batches has been resolved.

We apologise for the disruption and thank you for your patience.

Feb 1, 2024 4:39 PM

Our engineers are urgently working with our downstream providers on an issue preventing customers from validating super batch payments.

When validating the batch customers will see the message "An error has occurred"

We apologise for any inconvenience caused and will update you with more information within the next 60 minutes.

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Payroll
Resolved

Payroll Platform Maintenance.

Last updated:
Dec 5, 2023 9:45 AM
December 4, 2023

5/12/2023 9:30am AEDT

This maintenance was completed successfully overnight.

4/12/2023 8:30pm AEDT

In order to improve the stability of our Payroll platform, our engineers will be performing maintenance today (Monday) at 2:30pm-3:00pm GMT (Tuesday 1:30-2:00am AEDT, 3:30-4:00am NZT)

Payroll will remain available throughout, except for two 30 second periods during this window where customers may receive an error or timeout.

Thank you for your understanding.

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Payroll
Resolved

Payroll Platform - Performance Restored

Last updated:
Nov 14, 2023 6:47 PM
Global
November 13, 2023

We are currently experiencing intermittent degraded performance across Payroll impacting all areas of the platform and regions.

Our engineers are actively investigating.

Thank you for your patience

13th November 5:30PM AEST

Payroll performance has been restored.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused and will provide more information here following our incident review.

14th November 7:10AM AEST

Our engineers report a recurrence of this DB issue this morning and mitigation efforts are currently underway.

This page will be updated when performance is restored and left open whilst we isolate root cause.

Thank you for your patience

14th November 7:55AM AEST

Our engineers have restored performance levels.

This status will remain open and updated whilst we continue to identify root cause of our DB performance issues.

Thank you.

14th November 9:00AM AEST

Please note that this issue continues to return intermittently.

Our engineers are continuing investigations into root cause and are mitigating where possible.

Thank you for your continued patience.

14th November 10:00AM AEST

We are still experiencing intermittent but significant periods of degraded performance on the Payroll platform.

Our engineers are currently working to isolate root cause.

14th November 11:20AM AEST

Our engineers are still actively investigating the root cause of the continued excessive DB load causing platform outage.

We apologise for the ongoing inconvenience and will continue to provide regular updates.

14th November 2:20PM AEST

Our engineers continue their investigations and are urgently working to resolve this.

Further updates will be provided as a priority.

14th November 3:10PM AEST

Payroll platform performance is improving. Customers can use the platform but may experience errors and timeouts whilst doing so.

The root cause remains under urgent investigation. We will continue to provide updates.

14th November 4:35PM AEST

Service to our payroll platform has now been restored. We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused.

We will continue to monitor the platform closely. If you are experiencing any issues, please contact support.

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Payroll
Resolved

Intermittent 502 Bad Gateway Error

Last updated:
Nov 9, 2023 10:47 AM
Global
November 1, 2023

08:00

We are investigating an issue preventing users from logging in to Payroll. We are working to get service resumed as soon as possible.


08:25

Issue has been resolved.

12:23

We are aware that this issue has resurfaced. Our engineering team is investigating the root cause of the intermittent 502 bad gateway errors.

10:30

This issue (intermittent 502 gateway errors) has been resolved. The root cause was tied to inefficient logic in the API logging middleware which drove excessive platform load / 502 gateway errors.

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Payroll
Resolved

Pay run and Rostering Issues

Last updated:
Oct 3, 2023 5:16 PM
Global
September 25, 2023

We are aware or a current issue impacting Pay Runs and Rostering. Our engineers are currently investigating and we will update you by 09:00hrs AEST at the latest.

09:00HRS Developers are still investigating the issue.

13:00HRS

The root cause of this problem was an invalid URL linked to a security certificate. To resolve this issue we replaced the URL with one possessing a valid and secure certificate. A buildup of processing jobs accumulated during this period and we immediately bolstered the capacity of our worker processes to clear the processing queue.

We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused.

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Payroll
Resolved

Performance issues

Last updated:
Oct 3, 2023 3:29 PM
AU
September 14, 2023

We are currently experiencing system wide performance issues.

This is due to a backlog in our back end jobs processing. We are adding additional server capacity in order to clear the backlog and restore performance.

Additional server capacity resolved the issue

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Payroll
Resolved

Visual Leave Balance Warning In Pay Runs

Last updated:
Oct 3, 2023 2:59 PM
Global
August 30, 2023

There is an issue with the warnings section of the pay run. Stating that employees are taking more leave than they have accrued with 0 hours available for use.

This warning is purely a display issue and leave balances/calculations are not impacted

Update:

Engineers are investigating


Update:

Issue has been fixed and released to production.