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Product Release Notes

January 28, 2015

BALANCEaap / BALANCEhub Release Notes 2012‑present2012‑2014

BALANCEaap Release Notes 2010‑2011

To continually improve our products and services, Berkshire is pleased to announce an upgrade to balanceAAP on Wednesday, January 28, 2015. This upgrade will include the following new features and enhancements, as well as fixes for previously reported issues.

IWD/Veterans

The accuracy of the Jobs Opened calculation, in the Hiring Overview activity, has been improved by counting all hired applicants in addition to the unique requisitions where a job seeker has not been hired. Unique Promotion IDs can also now be included to incorporate internal openings into this calculation.

Roster Data Table

The Roster Data table has been updated to include additional fields required in the most recent Scheduling Letter, including: Grade, Wage Rate, Typical Hours in a Work Week, Other Compensation, Status, and Protected Veteran.

Compensation Data Export

The ability to export the compensation data, as outlined in the revised Scheduling Letter, has been added to the Data Export page.

Adverse Impact Reporting

Also in response to the recent changes from the OFCCP’s Scheduling Letter, the following changes have been made to the Adverse Impact reports:
  • The Traditional Adverse Impact reports previously available, can still be accessed through balanceAAP, but are now called “Adverse Impact….Traditional."
  • Plans created after this January 2015 release will have these plans hidden by default, but can be displayed by unchecking the “Hide Legacy Reports” option, located in the Global Settings on the Select Reports page.
  • Adverse Impact reports have been modified to analyze the data, based off the Favored Group analyses. These reports will now compare the selection rate for each individual race or gender against the group that has the highest overall selection rate.
  • Adverse Impact reports will no longer be specifically identified as being run by Favored Groups. New plans will only show Adverse Impact and Adverse Impact Detail reports.
  • Adverse Impact Detail reports have been updated to support the Favored Group analysis and enhanced to further breakdown by selected groups into Hired, Internal Successful, and Offer Extended.
  • In addition to running Favored Groups by Race and Gender, a new section has been added to compare Total Minorities versus Whites.
  • BALANCEhub will also include all corresponding Adverse Impact changes to calculations, Reports, and DASH graphs.

  • Adverse Impact reports can be filtered by Job Group to help minimize the amount of information produced in reports that must be submitted for review.

  • balanceAAP now supports multiple versions of Narrative Templates so that updates can be phased in, as necessary.

balanceAAP Narratives and Reports

  • A new version of the balanceAAP Narratives has been included to comply with the most recent changes to the Scheduling Letter. The modifications include:
    • Overall language changes have been made to the default Narrative Templates.
    • Additional Narrative template tags have been added, including: Top US Official and their Title, Review of Personnel Processes Detail, Review of Physical and Mental Job Requirements Detail, and Additional Monitoring Actions.

  • The Data > Export tab is now directly accessible from the Select Reports page.

  • The Compensation Summary Report is now run by Favored Group.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact Berkshire’s Product Support department at product.support@berkshireassociates.com, or use Product Report Request, which is also available from the software's Support button in the page header.

Thank you, Berkshire’s Product Support Team