Stop juggling spreadsheets and award pay guides! As we continue to support your pay compliance efforts, Pay Rate Builder now offers automatic rate management for select awards. System administrators and advisors can now select the appropriate level using the Fair Work guide as the minimum wage for each selected classification. Over time, this will be automatically managed in line with Fair Work pay rises, including on team members' birthdays.

How do I set this up?
By navigating to the Pay Rate Builder, you can now select certain awards to see the inbuilt levels and junior rates. These can then be applied to your team members from the employee profile. If you need to edit your pay rates, automate allowances or more, you can also use the Pay Rate Builder for this.

The below are available now

• Children's Services Award (ChildrenA) [MA000120] 
• Cleaning Award (CleanA) [MA000022]
• Clerks Private Sector Award (CPSA) [MA000002]
• Food, Beverage and Tobacco Manufacturing Award (FBTMA) [MA000073]
  

• General Retail Industry Award [MA000004]

• Health Professionals and Support Services Award (HPSSA) [MA000027]

• Hospitality Industry General Award [MA000009]

• Miscellaneous Award [MA000104]
•  Pharmacy Industry Award [MA000012]
• Registered and Licensed Clubs Award [MA000058]

  
  

  
  

While the following are coming in imminently! 

• Amusement, Events, and Recreation Award [MA000080]  
• Animal Care & Veterinary Services Award [MA000118]
• Fast Food Industry Award [MA000003]
• Fitness Industry Award (FIA) [MA000094]
• Live Performance Award [MA000081]
• Manufacturing and Associated Industries and Occupations Award (MAIOA) [MA000010]
• Nurses Award [MA000034] 
• Restaurant Industry Award [MA000119]
• Security Services Industry Award (SSIA) [MA000016]
• Storage Services and Wholesale Award (SSWA) [MA000084]
• Aged Care Award (ACA) [MA000018]

As part of our ongoing commitment to privacy, we’ve refined Hire permissions. Managers will now only see job listings and candidates for the locations they’re assigned to—ensuring access is limited to what’s relevant, protecting confidential details, and making Hire simpler and easier to use. 

Start using Hire today

Document Library just got more powerful. Now, when uploading a document or video, you can choose whether an acknowledgement requires a signature. Easily upload, share, and track acknowledgements in Deputy HR—with full visibility in Company Document reports.

Create your Document Library

Contracts often require multiple signatures, so we’ve enhanced the signed document experience in Deputy HR. You can now assign up to five parties to sign a contract—while still enjoying automated notifications and seamless storage of the completed document directly in the employee’s profile, both on desktop and in the app. 

Create a multi-party contract now 

Building on the success of Document Library in Deputy HR—and thanks to customer feedback—we’re excited to introduce a powerful new feature: the ability to upload, share, and track acknowledgements for MP4 videos.

This means you can go beyond documents and bring policies, training, and updates to life with video.

Create your Document Library today

• Company Documents
• Kudos
• Team Member Payroll Details (AU only)

• Access easily via the Reports tab
• Trial Deputy HR today 🚀

We’ve improved the shift dynamic changes experience in the Mobile app, making it easier for managers and employees to handle the updates on the go.

What’s new:

The whole dynamic changes workflow supports both Micro-scheduling shifts and normal single area shifts.

• Intuitive workflow – The shift dynamic workflow has been redesigned to be more user-friendly and fully compatible with Micro-scheduling shifts.
• Manager shift replacement – Managers can now find replacements for an entire micro-scheduling shift directly in the Mobile app.
• Employee flexibility – Employees can swap or offer their assigned shifts with colleagues straight from Mobile.
• Manager approvals – Managers can approve or reject swap requests from both Mobile and Web.
• Backward compatibility – Dynamic shift features continue to work for single-area rosters as usual.

⚠️ Note: Currently, the whole workflow apply to the entire shift (including all sub-shifts in a Micro-scheduling shift). Partial swap/offer/replacement isn’t yet supported. As a workaround, managers can use the Link/Split Shift feature to divide shifts and reassign parts.

Read help doc for more details

We've made it even easier to narrow down to the right group team members by adding the ability to filter your employee list by as many criteria as you need. We've added some much requested options such as:

• Employment type
• Locations
• Stress profiles
• Tags

just to name a few. This will be rolling out before the end of the year, but as a nice simple lightweight change, we are now opening this up to any customers who need greater flexibility when it comes to honing into specific sets of staff members and shifts when scheduling.

Get early access or provide feedback here!

We’re making team communication instant, effortless, and built right into Deputy—so you can connect where work happens, without juggling multiple apps.

What is Deputy Messaging?

• Instant group and direct messaging – Chat with individuals or groups, instantly reaching the right people.
• Location channels – Dynamic channels for every location, updating automatically when staff join, leave, or move.
• Media and file sharing – Share images, documents, videos, and links directly in chats.
• Integrated communication experience – Messaging is part of the same Deputy app you already use to schedule, manage, and check in with your team—no extra logins or switching tools. Available on both mobile and web.

Why we built it

Until now, teams who used Deputy relied on a mix of external messaging apps, SMS, email, or Deputy News Feed – making it hard to keep everyone aligned, especially when rosters change. Deputy Messaging helps you:

• Keep all work conversations in one place
• Cut down admin with automatically updated groups and channels
• Prepare for advanced Messaging+ features coming later this year

Rollout

Deputy Messaging is available to all customers. Learn more on how to activate Deputy Messaging here.

Messaging+ coming soon

With this rollout, you’ll have access to all Deputy Messaging features (including Messaging+) at no extra cost.
From October 1, Messaging+ will become a paid upgrade, offering advanced features like read receipts and polls.

Updated Help Centre

New Messaging help guides are available here.

Deputy HR have launched a new enhanced permission setting allowing System Admins to customise the viewing and management of sensitive information and documents by Location Managers. 

• New Business Setting
• Customise what your Locations Managers can view or manage.
• Easily mark document types as sensitive when creating or editing them 

How to use it
Help Article