People First
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People First is a mobile-first integrated platform that covers all your HR and payroll needs from a single, real-time, integrated platform.
MHR provides multi award-winning HR, payroll, talent management and analytics software and services. For more than 30 years, MHR has been helping organisations of all shapes and sizes drive organisational performance, working in partnership to reduce operational costs, streamline outdated processes and enable their people to deliver maximum value for their business and customers.
more Latest release with all the updates for version '26.2.7':
- Absence Calculations driven from schedule
- Move entity and transfer/move payroll messages
- Department import update to include entities
- Restrict time types based on time policy
- Data explorer filter enhancement
- Entities in Data Explorer
26.2.71988810 4 days ago
Organisation Entities
Absence - Legislation Updates
Changes to Business Processes
Notional Items in PenPay
JSON endpoint costing update
Navigating to iTrent Payslips
Time - Clock record integration
Time - Time & Scheduling Policy
Table enhancements: Icon size & multi-cell Selection
Assigning Background Checks to campaigns
Applicants submitting checks
Pathway exclusion lists
School Workforce Census
New Walkthroughs & NPS Survey
26.1.61975635 2 Apr
"Table Enhancements
Salary Change Reason Field
Custom Cards: Person Field
Auto Enrolment Correspondence
Contribution Table Revisioning
Option to show clock records on approvals page
First Day Locations Limit Increased
Line Manager Access & HR Admin Job Relationships access
Single Central Record
Gender Pay Gap Reporting
New Walkthroughs
New Surveys"
26.1.51962751 20 Mar
Onboarding & Offboarding email wording update
Document Manager (DLX) integration
Keep Me Signed In (login enhancement)
Job reference number added to Costing report & API
3-year re-enrolment – includes “left scheme”
Notional pensionable pay (maternity & sickness)
Retrospective transfers – amending time data
Time – Undo clock out option returns
Interview talking points
AI-generated interview talking points
Offer of employment link in onboarding
Data Explorer – Background checks
Data Explorer – Applicant Diversity
Data Explorer – Employee attached to payroll
Data Explorer – Pay incremental date
Data Explorer – Deleted users (saved queries retained)
School Workforce Census (SWF) reporting
In-App Support – Survey launch & Ideas Portal access
26.1.41949628 6 Mar
Latest release with all the updates for version '26.1.3'
26.1.31936249 20 Feb
Latest release with all the updates for version 2026.1.2.
26.1.21922647 6 Feb
Latest release with all the updates for version 26.1.1.
26.1.11909701 25 Jan
Latest release with all the updates for version 26.1.1:
Core People First:
- Disable holiday allowance
- Background checks
Onboarding:
-Background checks
Workforce management:
- Overtime on scheduled shift
- Clock record display / delete
- GDRP report
- Scheduling open shift import
Recruitment:
- Interviews created in external calendars
Payroll:
- Claims designs
Data explorer:
- Time domain
- Absence stages
- Custom cards multiple values
- Multiple dimension data views
In app support:
- Additional walkthroughs and surveys
25.4.251896589 8 Jan
Latest release with all the updates for 25.4.24 including:
- Award Badges
- Time and Clockin Improvements
- Offboarder Access
25.4.241874449 12/12/2025
Latest release updates for Version 25.4.23 including:
HRM - Authority to recruit insights
Payroll - Monthly in arrears
Payroll - AE Assessment Improvements
Payroll - Pension on Payment after leaving
Payroll - Pension reinstated with employee
Scheduling - Colour coding
Scheduling - Senior Manager Permissions
Recruitment - Delete an applicant
Data Explorer - Additional date ranges
Data Explorer - Natural Language Query
Data Explorer - In App Support
In App Support - Additional walkthroughs, surveys, banners & LearnNow content
25.4.231862037 29/11/2025
Latest release with all the updates for version 25.4.22
25.4.221849221 14/11/2025
Latest release with all the updates for version '25.4.21'
25.4.211837676 01/11/2025
Latest release with all the updates for version 25.3.20 including:
Absence policy settings import
Sign in/up enhancements
HRM correspondence updates
Payroll editing unused payslip items
Payroll FPS download
Payroll QE threshold on pensions
Assumed pensionable Pay
Job relationship time approval
Recruitment application scroller
Assessment centre - interview panel
Assessment centre - transferring applicants
State of incorporation (USA)
Termination type (USA)
In app support
25.4.201824667 18/10/2025
Latest release updates for version 25.3.19 including:
Bulk correspondence
Bulk imports
Notification for 28 week SSP
Payslip viewer role
Time field enhancements
Recruitment assessment centres
HESA updates
iSAMs integration
25.3.191812293 05/10/2025
Latest release updates for version 25.3.18 including:
- Qualifying pattern update
- Legislation and pension back pay
- Leaver holiday pay
- Scheduling person side panel
25.3.181803015 23/09/2025
User Management - Import updated to include all user roles
Organisation Chart - Retaining focus on selected item
Absence Booking modal redesign
Third-party payment references
Accumulator backpay
Deleting unpaid scheme and benefits
Hourly rate for non-salaried employees
User Management – Payroll Administration and Payroll Manager
Time: Import & Export
Scheduling - Shift Instructions
Scheduling - Time fields on standard shifts
Reason for leaving
Ad-hoc correspondence formatting
Addition of expense claim reason
HESA - XML Exporting
HESA - CSV Exporting
USA - Employer Identification Number
25.3.171787304 05/09/2025
Latest release updates for version 25.3.16:
Driver's details – Additional vehicle fields
Polish translation
Multiple check ins
Multiple jobs for time
Time page improvements
Updates to time import and export
Reveal bank details
Override pension for contribution tables
Regulatory fields for US
Amend filters in data explorer
Exclude participants in learning
25.3.161779070 27/08/2025
HRM – Vacancy Approver Key Action
HRM – Probationary period reminder notifications
HRM – Correspondence table enhancements
Creating a user enhancements
Mobile app
Payroll search
S&B and Claims back pay
YTDs split by job
YTD pension import updated
Non working periods on the schedule
25.3.151763668 08/08/2025
Latest release with all the updates for version '25.3.141751559'
25.3.141751559 25/07/2025
- Improvements to non-working periods on the working pattern
- Non-working periods added to the working pattern import
- System message positioning improvements
- Ability to bulk remove linked identities
- Average holiday pay available for multiple jobs
- Third party payment enhancements
- Leaver holiday pay improvements
- Updates to how overnight shifts appear on the schedule
- Improvements to 'no interview slots available' messaging
- Exports created for training events participation list
- Calendar improvements for trainers
25.3.131739852 11/07/2025
-Release updates now available on People first learn now
-Enhancements to allowance Absence allowance details
-New Public holiday rules for occupational absence
-Updated Absence details to include the expected end date
-Ability to configure Non working periods
-Case Types
-Introduction of Term time working rules
-Introduction of Keyboard focus and click and keyboard navigation on the Org chart
-Salary backpay
-Ability to select a Payroll absence pro rata for each absence policy
-New Payroll daily rates
-Ability to editing contribution tables
-Introduction of third party payment file
-New learning and onboarding fields to Data explorer
-Introduction of Bring your own BI
-Workforce planner Job relationship
-Interview details to display on the jobs board and new shipped recruitment privacy policy
-Learning course certificates and easy generator integration
25.2.121733153 06/07/2025
- Updated out of office and clashing absences are back, with the ability to hide
- Check-in types have increased to 40, including summarization and talking point suggestion
- Education pension updates
- Hourly rate calculations
- Average holiday pay back pay
- Delete a payslip item
- Pension updates at job level
- Workforce planner job role
- Recruitment updates including Applications tab, Bulk action enhancements and many more
- Increased resource file upload limits and Add course status filter to course list for Learning
25.2.111716263 13/06/2025
Learning playlists
Third Party BACS - Payment to HMRC
Editing pension scheme name
Vacancy request Approved added to event stream
Working pattern import update
Working pattern summary display
Employee schedule view
25.2.101704701 30/05/2025
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- Edit Salary on pay range scale
- Company News rename
- Absence: Calendar picker enhancements and TOIL bank statement
- Payroll - new pro-rata rule and pensionable pay on adjustments
- Handling absence via the schedule
- Improvements to managing applicant data
- Onboarding enhancements
25.2.91692763 16/05/2025
Latest release with all the updates for version '25.2.8'
25.2.81681592 06/05/2025
Latest release with all the updates for version '26.2.7':
- Absence Calculations driven from schedule
- Move entity and transfer/move payroll messages
- Department import update to include entities
- Restrict time types based on time policy
- Data explorer filter enhancement
- Entities in Data Explorer
more Version 26.2.71988810 4 days ago
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