How to Add Holidays

How to add Holidays rules that apply holidays to the Calendar/Scheduler and Employee Timesheets

Table of Contents

1. Click to open the Global Settings

2. Click Time Off to expand the options and select Holidays

3. Select an Assignment Group

To learn more about the Assignment Scope Hierarchy, see The Assignment Scope Hierarchy

Company – Applies to the whole company
Group – Applies to a group of employees such as a particular location or department
Employee – Select one or more employees for individual application

4. Select or create a Rule Name

5. Select a Rule Effective Start Date (when should this rule go into effect?)

6. Click to add a Holiday

Select or create a Name

1. Enter or select a Specific Date

2. Enable "Add Recurrence" if the Holiday is to repeat (see table below)

Setting	Description
Every Month	Holiday occurs every month on the day selected * If the day selected is 30 or 31, the recurrency will only apply to months with the same number of days.
Every __ month(s) starting in “Specific Month”	Holiday occurs every “insert number of months” starting in “insert month”.
Specific (Choose one or more)	Choose specific month the holiday occurs
Every month between __ and __	Holiday occurs every month between “insert month” and “insert month”

All days are applied to the scope of months selected in the Months Tab

Setting	Description
Every day	Holiday occurs every day for the month(s) selected
Every __ day(s) starting on __	Holiday can occur every “specified amount” of days on the day of the month(s) of choice.
Every __ day(s) starting on “day of week”	Holiday can occur every “specified amount” of days on the day of the week of choice.
Specific day of week	Holiday occurs on the specified day of the week
Specific day(s) (choose one or more)	Holiday occurs the specified day(s) of the month
On the last day of the month	Holiday occurs on the last day of the month
On the last weekday of the month	Holiday occurs on the last weekday of the month
On the last __ of the month	Holiday occurs on the last, weekday of choice, of the month
Nearest weekday (Mon. to Fri.) to the __ of the month	If the holiday occurs on the weekend, it can be recognized on the nearest weekday to the holiday. (Either Friday or Monday)
On the __ “insert weekday” of the month	Holiday occurs on the first, second, etc. weekday of the month

1. Select a Paid Time (How much of the day will be paid on this Holiday?)

To set the Full Day and Half Day hours, see How to Set the Worked Hours Definition

2. Click to insert the Holiday

3. Click to add an additional Holiday or click to apply the Holiday Rule

* The Holiday will appear on the Scheduler and Employee Timesheets for applicable employees