brioHR Product Updates - August 2026, Week 4 | Public Holiday Visibility in Payslips, Automated SOCSO contribution and Customized Termination Reasons

Introduction

At brioHR, we are committed to continuously enhancing the user experience. We listen to valuable feedback from our clients to deliver new features, improvements, and system enhancements.

This article provides a summary of all brioHR product updates released in Week 4 of August 2026.

Payroll Module Update

Take Control of Employee Public Holiday Summary Visibility

You can now choose to display an employee's Public Holiday summary directly in their payslip. By default, the Payslip Public Holiday Summary feature is disabled, giving your organization full control over whether this information is visible to employees.

Key benefits:

🔍Greater visibility: Enable the feature to allow employees to conveniently view their Public Holiday summary directly in their payslips.
⚙️Flexible configuration: Choose whether to display the Public Holiday summary based on your organization's preferences and requirements.
🕵️Controlled by default: The feature is disabled by default, so you can decide when and if it should be made visible.

👉 Refer to Section 5 of these articles below to learn more about this feature:

Payroll Malaysia: Complete Guide to Setting Up Company Payroll Information

Payroll Singapore: How to Set Up Company Payroll General Settings

(MY) Ensure Accurate SOCSO Contributions with Automatic Category Selection

Just like EPF, employee SOCSO contributions can now be set to 'Automatic' — allowing the system to assign the appropriate category based on the employee's nationality and date of birth.

Key benefits:

🤖 Automatic resolution: brioHR determines whether SOCSO applies based on the employee's nationality and date of birth at each payroll run.
🎂 Handles age transitions for you: Contributions automatically switch to Category 2 when an employee turns 60 — no manual changes required.
🚩 Built-in safeguards: Payroll flags any Automatic employee with missing nationality or date of birth before the cycle can proceed, so nothing slips through unnoticed.
🔍 Full visibility: Hover over the tooltip during payroll run to see the resolved SOCSO status for each employee.

Global HR Update

More Flexibility with Custom Termination Reasons

You can now create custom termination reasons to better organize and manage employee offboarding records . Account Admins can set up these reasons and select them when updating an employee's End Employment Date. The selected termination reason can also be viewed in the Employee Information Report.

Key Benefits:

🔍Greater flexibility – Create termination reasons that are relevant to your organization.
🗃️More organized employee records – Assign the appropriate termination reason when setting an employee’s End Employment Date.
📝Improved reporting visibility – View customized termination reasons in the Employee Information Report for easier record-keeping and reporting.

👉Follow this step-by-step guide to create custom termination reasons.