Holiday calendars

Holiday calendars group multiple combinations of standard holidays together so that they can be applied to individual employees or groups of employees through single assignment. For example, you can group the holidays for New Years, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas into a single holiday calendar and then assign that holiday calendar to the employees within a particular calculation group.

If you have groups within your organization that observe holidays on different dates, you can create a calendar for each group and specify the dates for each affected holiday. For example, your company may have a union that has negotiated that holidays, which fall on Saturdays, are observed on Mondays, while the rest of the company observes these holidays on Fridays. This example requires two different holiday calendars.

A holiday calendar only applies for one calendar year, so you can schedule holidays years in advance without affecting the current year’s schedule. You should create one calendar per year for each unique employee group within your organization. While this can vary from business to business, most organizations usually have at most a handful of holiday calendars.